Should you film a once in a lifetime experience or just experience it…
The Space-Shuttle Quandary – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog
Probably both. Set up the camera before with a timer to shoot every couple of seconds and then forget about it. Of course, it could film the wrong thing but who cares? You could loose the camera on the way home anyway!!!
From Scoble…
“What is his goal? To beat CNET.
But does a great business or movement EVER get built on top of a goal like that?”
Mike Arrington’s dream team has wrong goal « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
Correct me if I’m wrong but Nike for years had the slogan of “be number one”. They just aimed for the number one in each market and went out to beat them.
And while I’m thinking about it. Isn’t that what Microsoft did for years? And didn’t Scoble work for them?
I’m confused!
“American’s are starting to ask: for all of this investment, how do I benefit? How does it help me put food on the table, heat my home, or send my kids to college?” John Robb’s Weblog: The Cost of War debate
For most of my life American foreign policy has claimed that Europeans are “soft”. They didn’t have massive armies, refused to support American actions overseas and spent all their time negotiating.
Now the rules have changed for the last superpower will they become more “European”?
Of course, European in this context is the wrong label; Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and many others all act this way. Will the US have to do the same?
Nicolas Carr makes a series of good points…
“Amazon isn’t about to close down its physical warehouses, of course. But its digital warehouses could eventually become the center of its business. That may be good news from a financial perspective. Amazon has invested a great deal of money and ingenuity into fine-tuning its physical logistics operation, and that operation has given it an edge in online retailing, but the cost of storing, handling, and shipping physical goods has always been a drag on its profitability. That cost largely disappears when customers buy products as bits rather than atoms.”
How about another plan? Amazon could spin off the logistics business. Remember, they have non-Amazon clients on their books. Once they reach a critical mass they could spin off the physical business and concentrate on the bits and bytes.
This also raises the possibility that the logistics business could be worth far more to FedEx, UPS and the others than as a seperate company.
Why doesn’t he use capitals? His company has spent a future on building a brand and yet he doesn’t use it!
Yang’s latest internal memo: “We’re on the move”
I must be getting old.
Enrollment for TED 2009 is open.
It’s quite humbling; I’m willing to spend 10% of my annual salary to go but the only person I ever spoken to who’s been is Loic Le Meur and that was to complain that David Weinberger had missed his speaking slot at LeWeb3.
I wonder is there is a way to buy references on eBay???
I was interested by this…
Dave is looking for a script to move a podcast into iTunes and then put it in a playlist.
WHY?
There is a far easier way to get the this functionality. Subscribe the the podcast in iTunes, then create a playlist that only shows podcasts that have a play count of zero. You’re done!
The result is all the unlisted to podcasts in a single playlist and they’ll disappear when you’ve listen to them.
I must be missing something. Or it could be another case of this… YouTube – Wilkinson & Winer
“MTV has never featured music videos.”
Life for the class of 2011 is VERY different.
See how many misunderstandings, errors and fact check mistakes you can find in here:
E-commerce: Jeff Bezos revolts against snooty French court
One per sentence?
When I was about fourteen I had a small book about the making of Star Wars; as I read it I remember learning for the first time how much effort went into making a movie.
Here is a great presentation that covers the same themes…
The Force Behind Star Wars: Turning Design Ideas into Reality » SlideShare
It’s worth remembering that Lucas dedicated years of his life to the project that he loved. ILM and Pixar have to be two of the most interesting companies in the world. There is a Horizon program from 1985 called “How to film the impossible” that is well worth hunting down about how ILM worked at the time.