More YouTube Gold.
Using your Mac Screensaver as a Desktop
This simple command will display your current selected screensaver as your background. You may have seen this before…but it is new to me and maybe others.
Sign of the Times…DRM is on the way out.
Here is a perfect example of how a TV network gets it, or is starting to get the fact that there are fans that want to “play with their content”.
When you loosen up and not be such a hard nose about copyright issues and suing your customers but allow them to create new things with it .. it can only peak curiosity. It is what viral marketing is all about. It is about creating interest in something by letting the audience create the interest for you.
CBS to allow snippets of shows on Web – Yahoo! News
CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves said Tuesday his company would embrace products and technologies that allow viewers to “time shift” and “place shift” his network’s shows and interact with them in new ways.
iPhone Quality Versus Quantity
Amazing! That was the first thing that came to mind after reading about the iPhone. Absolutely amazing! After the recent emotional roller-coaster, which was only compounded by Brian Lam
’s infamous “I guarantee it. It isn’t what I expected at all…†comment, I had given up all hope that we would see a phone at Macworld.
CES called and they want their thunder back…
Wow can you believe it, no sooner did CES wrap but Apple came into Macworld and stole the show. A big chunk of the internet is a buzz about the new iPhone. This thing does just about everything. I think that they should have called it the iKitchenSink.
Not to miss this as well, but Apple also gave us some more info on the Apple TV. What I like about this is .. if it is in your iTunes it is on your TV. Homemade movies, music, purchased music, TV, movies…everything.
Very Cool.
First Video of Iphone from Chad Burge at Macworld Expo
Our on site reporter Chad Burge sent this quick video of thew new Apple iPhone from the floor of Macworld Expo. More to come from Chad. Keep checking back for more .
Iwao Takamoto – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Once again…here is someone I admired and didn’t even know his name. Iwao Takamoto, responsible for lots of cartoons that I have seen and enjoyed over the years passed away at 81.
Thanks Iwao….rest in peace.
Iwao Takamoto – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Takamoto’s father emigrated from Hiroshima to the United States for his health. He returned to Japan only once, to marry his wife. Takamoto was born later in 1925 in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Takamoto’s family, like many Japanese-Americans, was sent to an internment camp. They spent the rest of World War II in the Manzanar internment camp. It was there that Takamoto received basic illustration training from a couple of friendly co-internees.
Is Digg Podcasts Section A Little Disingenuous?
I was excited to see Digg finally put Podcasts on their site, encouraging anyone to Digg the podcasts that they like. I thought this could provide a good way for new eyes to see all the podcasts that are out there, and promote them.
If you are not familiar with Digg, here is how it works. Someone submits a link to Digg. If enough people see it and also find it interesting they click the Digg link and vote for the article. If there are enough diggs to a article then it makes it to the front page and garners more attention.
Well, to a point for podcasts this could work. But not the way Digg is handling it. When you click on the digg-Podcast section, you are immediately taken to the Most Popular shows, not episodes. This is not a rotating section like on the front page with articles and even the videos section. Not only that, when they launched the podcast section it was laden with Revision3 / Kevin Rose shows and podcasts, and other Screensavers Alumni (read TWIT). Now I understand that they are popular, and that is fine I dugg some too, but now those shows have 12000, 10000 diggs, how is someone to compete with that? This list will never change.
What I propose is…make this a rotating section, like Videos and News, and encourage everyone to digg individual episodes, not the shows themselves. I may do an interview on my show that gets a lot of diggs and gets me exposure…someone else may do the same and get some exposure…BUT that won’t happen when people only see the most dugg shows.
You know…I know it is new and I hope that making episode voting was the focus of the plan all along after there were enough to do it.
If you want…show your support Digg my show.
My local paper talks about Podcasting…and Me.
Chuck and I have been doing Technorama for almost 2 years now. (That in itself is hard to imagine) It has been fascinating to see Podcasting grow over the last few years, and Technorama as well.
It has grown so much now that my local paper The Herald even wrote an article about it….
‘It’s growing, it’s big, it’s huge’ — it’s a local podcast
It’s podcasting, and as Steppe described, “it transcends a radio station.” After all, there are no call letters. No paid DJs. Just some technologically skilled folks connecting through a common interest. Podcasts can be about anything and any length.
BTW…I don’t really consider myself a World Wide DJ….LOL
iPredict a change in iWeb for Mac World
There are Apple/Mac rumors about everything….even iWeb. No doubt..It is going to be an interesting next couple of weeks of Apple News.