Our very own Duck makes a Super Bowl appearance! As Matty pointed out, nine million people have now seen him (almost) naked. To those of us who have known him for all these years — this comes as no surprise.
Update: Frants has the video, in case you missed it.
How do you learn to tell [great] stories? Often, just by studying great ones. Take 37 seconds to read [or 47 seconds to watch] this one.
–37 Seconds to Great Storytelling
by Brian Clark
“The soul of the city is in a football game three seasons ago… It was September 25, 2006, Payton’s and Brees’ first home game…”

If you told me this morning that I’d go to sleep with a clearer understanding of how the City of Manor turns ideas into solutions, I’d have had my doubts. Nonetheless, Dustin’s video made it happen in about 2 minutes.
I live 20 minutes from Manor. Having seen the video, it feels a little closer.
Whiteboard Innovation: How Manor Turns Ideas Into Solutions
Dustin Haisler - CIO of the City of Manor, Texas
“Not only are video results increasingly common in Google’s search results, but your videos stand a much better chance than your text pages of being shown on the first results page…
about a 50 times better chance of appearing on the first page of results than any given text page in the index.”
–The Easiest Way to a First-Page Ranking on Google
Nate Elliott, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research


Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
– Conan O’Brien (via editorlisa and dpstyles) (via david) Via David's LogThe first place we got pictures was on Facebook.
– Michael Holmes, CNN Int’l Desk, on CNN coverage of Haitian earthquakeGhillie suits + marching band + OK Go = “This Too Shall Pass”.
Official video on YouTube.
Embedding officially disabled by Capitol Records.

