Doc Searls has posted a Flickr series of far-off photos of the Santa Ana winds-whipped wildfires in Southern California.

Motionbox, the personal video sharing service, today added Deep Tagging, giving users the ability to tag selected portions inside of a video, jump to the best parts, and instantly share them with others.

Motionbox’s Deep Tagging feature lets you intuitively mark specific moments inside a video and add descriptive keywords that apply just to those selected portions, which are then searchable throughout Motionbox’s video network.

“Everyone knows the experience of trying to watch a video and having to slog through a bunch of stuff you really aren’t interested in, in order to get to the highlights — whether it’s your vacation videos, a ballgame or a speech — now you can point people directly to the best parts of the video, as easily as sending them an email,” said Chris O’Brien, Motionbox’s CEO & co-founder.

Sounds amazing. I’ll be talking with their CEO about this tomorrow.

My mother called two months ago with some odd news. She spotted my name in small print in a local newspaper in New Jersey. Something about unclaimed property when I was living in Garfield, NJ.

Since I moved out when I was 2, we figured it was a savings bond my parents bought me, deposited, and forgot about. Maybe $100, but who knew?

I wrote to the state to lay a claim and, a few weeks later, after getting a copy of my birth certificate and having it notarized, a check arrived in the mail today for $1,974.

Not a bad haul for a 2-year-old.

Here’s a fun 4-minute video: Introductions by the people interviewed on Real People Network. Appearances by Elisabeth Shue, Larry Lessig, Howard Rheingold, Michael Arrington, Amanda Congdon, Amber MacArthur, Tom Green, Valerie Cunningham, Tony Kahn, Robert Scoble and a couple of dozen others.