Not sure how I missed these videos but discovered them via SwissMiss and they are awesome. I opted for the Sony over the Olympus, but hey ho.

Talking of conference videos, @markjo posted about Sittingo which keeps an index of speakers and conferences to keep all of your favourite videos to hand. Nice find.

D’oh, completely forgot to post the link to the videos from the excellent Thinking Digital event (sorry @herbkim).

Definitely worth watching pretty much all of these videos, and you can have a look at my posts for original reactions to the content.

Great event. Make sure you book up for next year.

Good grief. I’m sure I Russell M. Davies wrote about this in Wired 2 months ago.

Although the first comment on the video sums it up “Installing Ad Block in three, two, one…” it does make you think.

Are we heading this way? Probably.

On the other hand, maybe all of this has happened before. Given that it seems likely that the fundamental particle of the universe is information (I’m a little liberal with the use of the word ‘likely’ here as I can’t find a reference to hand but I read it somewhere – or maybe it was on the One Show) and considering that owing to the many worlds theory it’s likely we’re living in a simulation anyway, then perhaps after a bit of time with this sort of set-up (like, say, 30 minutes) everyone decided that although it’s nice to be hyper-connected, sometimes it’s nice just to have a cup of tea.

I did love the finger-spread hand-gesture though. Very cool.

Did I mention how much I really love my NEX-5? Well, I do.

Anyway, I would surely love to use one of these fellas (which use the same E lens system) for a bit of video work. Actually, the NEX-5 video has been great – in particular the sound of the inbuilt mic (seriously) has been really good even at distance. Only slight criticism is slightly sluggish auto-focus at times (but on the other hand, no whirring noise on the video itself).

Actually, I’m struggling to justify buying one as I bought a fabulous Sony HDR-XR500VE which has been great for producing stuff like this, but it doesn’t stop me wanting the shiny.

Dear Sony, please can you fix it for me and my evangelists to get our hands on this lovely kit? Go on.

Yikes – love these graphics from the 99% Conference. Via SwissMiss.

99% Conference 2010: Motion Graphics from 99% on Vimeo.

Great new ad from Virgin Holidays. Beats Lenny Henry in the Premier Inn I reckon.

Sure, the cloud is cool and all that, but there are times when you just need a standard PC and printer rig. This is one of those times.

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

Saw this on Techfluff. Posted on March 1st and already had – deservedly so – 3.5m views.