Interesting video over on YouTube of Chad Hurley (co-founder of YouTube) speaking to Congress about online video with a followup by Mashable and another video, this time of a fawning congress critter.

Adobe Illustrator is one of the hardest applications I ever taught myself. Why? Cause you create imagery by manipulating little wires. I learned it back in 1988 and it’s sure gotten a lot more powerful since then. Recently I had a chance to sit down with a few Adobe teams (Photoshop and Premiere are coming soon) to catch up on what Adobe’s been doing lately. Here Phil Guindi product manager on the Illustrator team demonstrates to me and talks me through a bunch of the newest stuff. It’s long, but if you’re a graphic designer you’ll probably see a few new things. Even if you’re not you’ll learn a lot about how this app is used to create much of the imagery you see all around you (most billboards, for instance, are created in Illustrator and so are many Flash and Silverlight animations — the design folks at Microsoft still used Adobe Illustrator a lot when I worked there because it’s such a powerful tool — of course Microsoft is trying to switch everyone over to its Expression Suite).

Sorry for taking the week off with my show. Rocky’s mom died on Sunday which put us behind. Thanks to Ryanne Hodson for filling in while Rocky’s tending to family affairs.

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…I would make a LOLCats Porn site.

“Huh?”

Well, last night I was talking with Automattic’s CEO, Toni Schneider (Automattic is the fine folks who make WordPress and host my blog). He told me that ICanHasCheeseburger is now the #1 WordPress.com site and is seeing traffic of more than 500,000 visitors per day. About 1/3rd of all files that WordPress.com’s servers are serving up are due to this one site alone (which is pretty incredible because WordPress.com is almost at a million blogs now).

But, I’m not that smart and I don’t have cute cats to take photos of. Makes me almost wish for flying dogs! Heheh.