Just shot this quick video of Lincoln Wolf Hausman, age 2 weeks, opening a present from Todd Berman & Lauren Girardin. Todd & Lauren are somewhere halfway across the world in … Vietnam? Laos? Somewhere on their round-the-world adventure (chronicled quite amusingly at Ephemerratic.com.)

I post this mostly to show off my ridonculously cute kid, but also to prove the immediate intimacy of web video. It took me 2 minutes to film, 5 minutes to upload to YouTube, and 5 minutes to write this post. 12 minutes, and now my friends on the other side of the globe can immediately see their gift in action. Pretty powerful!