I watched the unfolding story of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on BBC News 24 yesterday. For several hours.

This audio slideshow at the New York Times tells the story of what happened in a very much more powerful way using a handful of photos and a single journalist’s voice. It’s not breaking news, but it’s taken 12 hours or less to get this out and as I saw some of the Getty images it uses yesterday on the BBC it’s likely that it could have been published very soon after the audio report was filed. There’s a very real-time feel to it.

Earlier this year, I thought Facebook was amazing. I updated my profile every day, sometimes many times a day. I was visiting 10 or 20 every day. I was adding billions of applications, biting chumps and poking my friends. Briefly, it became an obsession.

It wasn’t just me. There was a time in summer 2007 in London when you couldn’t go anywhere without catching the word “Facebook” in bars and pubs and events and public transport and even from groups of people passing you on the street. There was a time, I estimated, when I was hearing just the word “Facebook” about 70-100 times a day. The newspapers were doing a daily Facebook story. It was on telly. It was everywhere.

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Quick. Go to Wildcard.jp.org. I don’t even know how I found it. It just appeared in my browser playing that weird music. No idea what it’s about but it’s really lovely to use. I recommend really letting rip.

I love the way Seattle-based Common Craft use storytelling, paper cut-outs and child-like animation to simplify the complex and entertain. This is their first foray into online video advertising and was made for PRWeb - a company specialising in buzz marketing using blogs and social media.

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