Today I am guest-working at the downtown Los Angeles offices of The Groop. I wanted to spend an hour catching up on my "reading" and found that it was not possible. Much to my surprise, more than half of the articles I was supposed to "read" contained video.
Normally I would just plug in my headphones and consume the media in my rss inbox. However yesterday while sleep walking through LAX, I managed to step on my headphones. Not having headphones forced me to notice: A year ago this would not have been a problem. I year ago I was consuming text. Maybe I didn't even have an RSS reader. When did I start consuming so much video?
I am not complaining. I think video is a very useful medium for communicating information. I am just surprised that video has become such a substantial portion of my information mix.
Maybe I should post this on Seesmic. ;-)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Star Trek, Twilight Zone, other classics beamed onto 'Net
Star Trek, Twilight Zone, other classics beamed onto 'Net: "
CBS has begun streaming episodes of Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and other classic shows on its Audience Network site.
(Via Ars Technica.)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Stage6!
Check out Stage6. My friend Kevin Workman just turned me on to it. The video quality is stunning!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Polaroid no longer does Polaroids
Is this bumming anyone else out?
Well doesn't OutKast look silly now. The brand synonymous with instant film is killing off the Polaroid film format and attempting to reinvent the brand so it 'lives on for the next 30 to 40 years.' In the short term that means closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands, cutting 450 jobs, and breaking the hearts of hipster-photographers the world over. Obviously the concept of Polaroids was never going to be much more than a niche in the age of digital photos, and the Polaroid / Zink Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer is filling the instant development void left behind, but it's still sad to see a format with so much history and fond memories die, especially since Polaroid spends the majority of its time these days slapping its de-valued logo onto rubbish commodity electronics.
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Polaroid no longer does Polaroids: "
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Well doesn't OutKast look silly now. The brand synonymous with instant film is killing off the Polaroid film format and attempting to reinvent the brand so it 'lives on for the next 30 to 40 years.' In the short term that means closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands, cutting 450 jobs, and breaking the hearts of hipster-photographers the world over. Obviously the concept of Polaroids was never going to be much more than a niche in the age of digital photos, and the Polaroid / Zink Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer is filling the instant development void left behind, but it's still sad to see a format with so much history and fond memories die, especially since Polaroid spends the majority of its time these days slapping its de-valued logo onto rubbish commodity electronics.
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(Via Engadget.)
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells
OK - People who know me know that I am obsessed with medical advances. This has nothing to do with what I do for a living. It's just a hobby of sorts. If I find medical news that I think is exceptionally cool, I will post it on my blog.
Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells: "An anonymous reader writes with news out of Finland, where a patient's upper jaw was replaced with bone cultivated from stem cells and grown inside the patient himself. We discussed other advances in stem cell research a few months ago. Quoting:
'In this case they identified and pulled out cells called mesenchymal stem cells -- immature cells than can give rise to bone, muscle or blood vessels. When they had enough cells to work with, they attached them to a scaffold made out of a calcium phosphate biomaterial and then put it inside the patient's abdomen to grow for nine months. The cells turned into a variety of tissues and even produced blood vessels, the researchers said.'
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(Via Slashdot.)
Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells: "An anonymous reader writes with news out of Finland, where a patient's upper jaw was replaced with bone cultivated from stem cells and grown inside the patient himself. We discussed other advances in stem cell research a few months ago. Quoting:
'In this case they identified and pulled out cells called mesenchymal stem cells -- immature cells than can give rise to bone, muscle or blood vessels. When they had enough cells to work with, they attached them to a scaffold made out of a calcium phosphate biomaterial and then put it inside the patient's abdomen to grow for nine months. The cells turned into a variety of tissues and even produced blood vessels, the researchers said.'
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(Via Slashdot.)
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