The Discovery Channel has been running new commercials that preview upcoming new seasons for several of their shows. As in the past, the commercials are well-made and (for me at least) can get you really jazzed up for many of their shows. They’ve obviously got a great advertising team and I wish they’d post these commercials on their own site (where you can now get full video of most of their shows). Instead, we need to hunt around to dig up copies like this one: [ View this video on YouTube. ] The montage commercials they showed last year were…
If you haven’t yet seen the Explanations in Plain English series from Common Craft, you really need to go check them out. The latest in the series came out this week and it’s titled “Twitter in Plain English”. Common Craft has created a simple but effective presentation method using paper cut-outs and a whiteboard to explain technical topics.