CNN gets entertaining...online

News giant CNN, a traditional news source, is attempting to broaden their younger audiences with the new online video series "Freshman Year". CNN issued Flip Cams to two freshman members of the House and asked them to document their Capital Hill happenings. The videos show some transparency in Washington by documenting the professional and personal sides of the new congressmen. They guys also have regular "diary" (blog) entries to accompany their videos which allows people to comment. What did I learn from watching one of a seven episodes? I don't really want to work on Capital Hill. :) Advertising looks more fun. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/freshman.year/

It's ok to fail

Twitter has done a pretty exceptional job at their "error pages". Most of the times if you visit a site and they don't have the bandwidth to accept you, its quite easy to come away feeling somewhat jilted and unimportant. However, Twitter has turned "fail" pages into a little bit of fun. This page, affectionately known as the "Fail Whale" helps you through those "down" times with Twitter and isn't the ugly 404 page you may get on random other sites. It's good to pay attention to the small details - good job Twitter.