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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Every day brings new viewers to our live chat. A recent visitor asked about her new laptop screen not being bright enough. She has reportedly changed her settings in the laptop control panel, with no luck. She wrote in to ask my advice, so let’s see what we can do to help Tifferz!

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For the most part, I think I’ve found a pretty good groove with video production – and this week has been off-the-chain with interactivity. I believe it’s largely due to the new nature of the Ustream player that plays automatically – certainly does help the numbers. The hardest part is coming up with new questions or semi-evergreen discussion points every day – but it’s fueled and funneled through the chat room. Thankfully, Lordkat has been pushing the recordings through HeySpread and TubeMogul, which should actually be a function of the original production point (Ustream.tv, though they seem intent on keeping the video in their own archives for the moment, which drive little to no traffic on their own).

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Doing It is really doing it, apparently – generating over 75,000 unique page impressions for a single post today. Our post on How to open a beer bottle with a piece of paper got Fark’ed, and now that link is leaking out into other social news services. We went from zero to sixty in a matter of hours, and it looks as though that momentum will carry us through to future farkable finds. Yes, we’re expanding our search for the wackiest ways to do things – be that in video, audio, or plain text format. Since anybody can contribute to the site, you’re welcome to join us in our quest for the holy grail…

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Dave Winer just released The DocNography Tool Howto, after a successful round at BloggerCon. Great minds think alike! While we won’t be using the OPML Editor for our mind mapping management, we will be using MindJet MindManager – projecting it onto a screen at the front of the room, and then making the files availble for anybody to download and view. It’s really too bad that MindManager doesn’t export OPML quite yet. I first fell in love with the idea back when I saw Marc Orchant put it into play at the original MSN Search Champs summit. He took our groups ideas and transformed them into a visually stunning, organized cloud of information.

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