I’m a fan of this initiative but have to link back to this here.

• First of the news of the day are that Jerry Yang steps down as Yahoo! CEO but will remain some form of Chief - here’s the internal all-staff memo
• A post on the evolution of the Chief Marketing Officer, Obama is employing a Chief Technology Officer for the whole US and a to-do list to become the social media champion at your office
• Razorfish creates for Intel’s Core i7 the Digital Drag Race
• Nike ACG Sweetspots website
• Top 50 Green Technology Blogs
• Steve Rubel bets on the end of tangible media by 2014 and here’s Mashable’s analysis
• TechCrunch reports that Facebook will start a verified apps program
• Research finds that blog content influences consumer buying behavior
• And web designers, Baekdal.com explains why you should design for a maximum width of 980px
• Africa’s size in perspective
• IBM study finds adoption of online, mobile content doubling
• Major League Baseball doesn’t wanna play ball with Silverlight anymore and goes back to Flash
• Always have smooth landings with the Landing Page Checklist
• Kontain, a free website for you to blog & share photos, videos and audio with friends, family and even beautiful strangers, just launched which is just what we all have been waiting for
• And McNeil Consumer Healthcare pulls an ad for painkiller Motrin due to rather negative feedback on social media sites about telling people how to wear a baby

I keep seing these naked trees with signs saying ‘This tree has been poisoned’ around Double Bay and Rose Bay here in Sydney. Makes you wonder who else would have any interest in killing a tree than the dudes living right behind it.

The founder of Current TV presenting at the recent Web 2.0 Summit and asking for Web 2.0 to have a more specific purpose.

The music’s a bit dramatic but the underwater footage is pretty amazing.

• Scenes from Antarctica will blow you away
  
• IBM reshapes its sales meetings
• A developer explains how the code works behind applications that run on Microsoft Surface
• The Open Web Awards are ready for your nominations till the 16th
• The real Al Gore’s Twitter account
• Some really interesting videos from the recent Web 2.0 Summit plus a good dozen of presentation files on SlideShare
  
• MGM to post full films on YouTube
• Chuckles 2009 calendar
• Gallery of images taken at the perfect time
• Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
• Scientists turn tequila into diamonds
• Resampled space
• The Art of Manliness Man of the Year 2008 sponsored by Old Spice

Sweet concept for The Shark Project, created by Y&R Frankfurt.