BoomTown » Viral Video Film School http://kara.allthingsd.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Hey, We Like Our Soothing Marimba Intro Riff! http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:23:50 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/ I meant to get this very funny video about the Web sites of financial publications–from Current TV, by Viral Video Film School–posted sooner, as it made me spit up my coffee several times.

The shaggy Brett Erlich perfectly reviews the sites for the Web 2.0 crowd, making fun of WSJ.com’s soothing video intro music, and the online video stars on Forbes and Fortune (one of whom, Fortune Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer is an old classmate of mine, in fact).

The best bit is his take on the “Information Highway Traffic Jam” at the end among all us MSM types, driving like teens gone wild on the digital freeway.

Here’s the video:

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