{"id":134,"date":"2007-07-07T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/07\/live-earth\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T13:56:01","slug":"live-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2007\/07\/07\/live-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveearth.org\">Live Earth<\/a> is live. I&#8217;m wondering what it&#8217;d be like if it&#8217;d been held by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.global-cool.com\" title=\"Global Cool\">Global Cool<\/a> instead of Al Gore&#8230; my weekend would certainly have been a bit more stressful for a start &#8211; the original reason GC hired me was to put together a webcast &#8220;not dissimilar&#8221; to Live Earth, but GC didn&#8217;t make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>A bit weird to see a lot of the ideas we put together 12-18 months ago on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting to see sponsors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\">MSN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevrolet.com\/\" title=\"Chevy\">Chevy<\/a> &#8211; and Chevy really plugging their new &#8220;eco friendly&#8221; 30mpg cars&#8230; 30mpg&#8230; it&#8217;s amazing to see 30mpg plugged as in any way &#8220;good performance&#8221;. MSN seems to just be plugging the Zune (sigh), but good to see Philips doing the light bulb &#8220;pledge&#8221;, albeit using a multi-megabyte flash animation instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgebank.com\/\">Pledgebank<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m very intrigued to find out how much tangible difference an event of this scale might make. It&#8217;s certainly not easy to predict.<\/p>\n<p>One geek factoid &#8211; MSN are also heavily plugging Internet Explorer in the webcast, with a different version for non-IE browsers. Screenshots below (click for full resolution);<\/p>\n<p>The welcome screen on Firefox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/browserwar.png\" title=\"Live Earth browser compatibility\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/browserwar.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Live Earth browser compatibility\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The webcast console on Firefox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/liveearth_firefox.jpg\" title=\"Live Earth Firefox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/liveearth_firefox.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Live Earth Firefox\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The webcast console on Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/liveearth_ie.jpg\" title=\"Live Earth IE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/liveearth_ie.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Live Earth IE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Earth is live. I&#8217;m wondering what it&#8217;d be like if it&#8217;d been held by Global Cool instead of Al Gore&#8230; my weekend would certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}