Clip of VH1's WEB JUNK 2.0 featuring my school board ad (and a nice mention by The Heritage Foundation)

A few days ago was when I first heard that Web Junk 2.0 on VH1, in an episode titled "Animals & Other Crap", had a segment featuring my first school board commercial. Here's the clip, which includes some pretty hilarious commentary by Web Junk 2.0 host Aries Spears (I was literally in the floor laughing while watching and listening to his witty remarks) ...

Speaking of the school board ad, Tom Finnigan at The Heritage Foundation had some really nice things to say about it on the foundation's blog two days ago...

The ad has been featured on VH1's Web Junk 2.0 and in The New York Times, Raleigh News & Observer, and The Charlotte Observer. Knight deserves kudos for promoting a fiscally conservative message to a diverse audience in a novel and entertaining way. Judging by the almost 60,000 views and overwhelmingly positive comments, it's possible that Knight has done more for his cause with a cheesy one-minute clip than he could have done by serving on the school board.

Y'know, if given the choice between winning a seat and being able to reach possibly a lot of people about why stuff like No Child Left Behind should be fought hard against, I would take doing my best to get the message out over the win any day. In the long run, it's going to be things like that, that make the biggest difference for the best. Anyways, thanks for the kind words Tom! And thanks for the good laugh Aries :-)

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Polar Rose: The "Duke Nukem Forever" of Web 2.0

A few months ago I heard about an intriguing new website called Polar Rose. It's creators have billed it as a search engine for images... and images of people in particular. Polar Rose is built around facial recognition software that, theoretically, you'll be able to input the picture of a person you know and it will scan for every occurrence of that person's face in photos throughout the Internet.

So I've been keeping an eye out for Polar Rose to debut its service, which was supposed to have been sometime in the first quarter of 2007. We're now headed into the second quarter. There also hasn't been anything new added to the Polar Rose website since about mid-January. I've heard that they were originally going for a December 2006 roll-out. According to one source it might happen this month or in May.

I hope they get on the ball soon and release this, because there's a lot of good potential to be found in an innovation like this. But to have announced it with so much fanfare about what it promises, only to not deliver on time and then not offer something in the way of official feedback, Polar Rose is on track to become the Duke Nukem Forever of Web 2.0... and nobody wants to see that happen.

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