World On Fire

1. This is very cool — Sarah McLachlan, rather than spending $150,000 on a music video for her song World on Fire, instead donated $150,000 to various charities around the world. She then made the video for $15, featuring her in a room with a guitar playing the song. What’s so cool then? The video also features graphics explaining the cost of making a video, and how much that money could help in third world countries. It’s fantastic, you’d never know what was coming if you were just watching TV, and it’s totally absorbing. The song’s pretty good too.

2. On the theme of World on Fire, every so often I check in to the blog of Kevin Sites, an embedded journalist in Iraq. He is proof that embedded journos can stay neutral, but he can also provide the raw emotion and the feel of the soldiers, the place and it’s people. It can be funny, tragic or frightening, often within sight of each other. In this post he writes about the the U.S. push into Falluja, and it’s gripping stuff — you feel involved in a way many other newspaper reports don’t. It’s well worth the read.

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