iPhone iPwns sales records; Choosing video-worthy stories; How the mobile Internet, isn’t the Internet; Feedburner offers free stuff; A dancing storm trooper

iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR
“Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T’s record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola’s RAZR did in its first month. Apple’s supply of iPhones depleted at more than half of its retail stores less than a week after the cellular handset hit shelves at 6:00 p.m. ET last Friday night. Buyers cleared out both Apple and AT&T stores in 10 states, with 95 of 164 stores selling out on Monday night, according to Bloomberg.” (Via Digg)

Choose video-worthy subjects
“Video is really good at what it’s naturally good at, and it’s really really bad for what it’s not naturally good at. You can’t put enough lipstick on a diabetes conference pig. I think bad assignments are just part of the learning process … You’ve got to try things and fail. Hopefully next time the assignment will be for something that is video worthy.”

Scandinavian newspapers are doing lots of things right
“Not even the most eloquent writer could have explained what happened as well as that animation does. It’s very powerful and very well done. The lesson here is simple: If newspapers don’t get off their butts and start embracing this sort of storytelling, then the very folks we normally cover will just do it themselves. If you don’t believe me, spend about 15 minutes on the MLB.com site for your closest Major League Baseball team, and then tell me if the hometown newspaper for that team covers the team as well or as deep.”

FeedBurner turns subscription services free
“Feedburner, the Chicago-based startup recently bought by Google, is now making two of its subscription services free.” Woohoo!

Insight from Steve Yelvington on how mobile Internet isn’t the real Internet
“* The “real Internet,” not the walled garden maintained by the telcos. This means open standards, free content (with the end of the lucrative ringtone market), and fast access. * A standards-compliant browser and display big enough to view real web pages, but small enough that some mobile optimization is still appropriate. So the game does change. It’s not crazy to imagine mobile net access at a level rivaling computer-based access within a few years.”

EBay launches ‘kijiji’ in United States
“EBay is the latest high profile company to dive in to the lucrative classifieds game. Kijiji launched overseas in 2005, but now the company is expanding to the US. Right now the site is a pure “free” classifieds site, with no upsell for consumers – though eBay told the Wall Street Journal that it will explore those options down the road.”

Managing Your Digital Identity
I can’t believe I forgot this yesterday. (Full disclosure: Laura and I are buds and I helped with some suggestions/anecdotes.)

Sicko Spurs Audiences Into Action
“Outside the restroom doors… the theater was in chaos. The entire Sicko audience had somehow formed an impromptu town hall meeting in front of the ladies room. I’ve never seen anything like it. This is Texas goddammit, not France or some liberal college.”

Tokyo Dance Trooper
I love how the crowd joins in. I wonder if that was staged…

Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion
It’s a Star Wars video-apalooza today.