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Mutual of Omaha, eat your heart out

Square Pegs

Published: January 6, 2008

Online local media pioneer and VP of Fort Worth-based TV consultant AR&D Terry Heaton posts a remarkable YouTube video that he sees as a metaphor for the way the media world is changing today:

"The visual statement of being backed into a corner by the masses — themselves now equipped to fight back — is a stunning illustration of the uselessness of the mainstream continuing to operate as normal. Like the buffalo, people are now informed, empowered, enabled, connected and involved, and they’re fighting back against the institutions of modernism, which they view as self-serving."

That might be stretching it a bit, but I went ahead and stretched it further in a comment on Terry's site. Either way, this is one of the most amazing seven minutes of video I've ever seen:

Published: January 6, 2008

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