Thursday, March 05, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
Frederick News Post in Trouble
Friday, the Frederick News Post announced that due to financial problems they will stop publishing a Monday print edition of their daily paper.
From their Friday paper:
[March 30 will be the last Monday edition for the foreseeable future, said Editor and Publisher Myron Randall. The decision was driven by the effect of a dire economy on the 126-year-old newspaper and will cushion the organization financially over the coming months.
"We have made a broad range of cuts across the company that has affected every facet of our operations," Randall said. "Although we are suspending the Monday edition, we're committed to improving our Sunday and Tuesday papers and the quality of our product across the board."]
To me this comes as no surprise. Their announcement also comes on the heels of the postal service saying they are considering suspending Saturday mail delivery.The bottom line is printing time sensitive information and then having to deliver said information will not work in the age of the Internet. People want their information NOW in REAL TIME and they want many photos and video clips and not just the summary a printed newspaper can provide. They also want to interact with the news and contribute. They want to be involved! So where will news junkies go when the Frederick News Post finally goes away for good? Maybe a community website like http://Frederick.com
Sunday, February 08, 2009
iTanny.com
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Craig Shipp in the news!
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090205/ARTICLE/902050316
COVER STORY - HeraldTribune.com
Welcome to the Twitter Nation
By Steve Echeverria Jr.
Last Modified: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 9:02 a.m.
Right place, right time.
Three weeks after Janis Krums "tweeted" one of the first images of US Airways Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River, he still explains capturing the photo and posting a link on his Twitter page with the same answer.
Right place, right time.
For someone who seldom used Twitter -- the free online service that allows users to send short messages, called "tweets," to friends and subscribers
(or followers) -- prior to snapping "The Miracle on the Hudson," it has been an education in technological advances, and usefulness.
"Before (Flight 1549), my reach was 170 followers," said Krums during a recent phone interview.
"Once I posted the link to the photo, it just exploded," said the Bird Key businessman, who now boasts more than 4,000 followers. "Some of my followers started re-tweeting the post and it went from 170 to being seen on all the TV networks and in the newspapers," he said. "It's not like I sent it to CNN."
Krums' split-second decision to post the photo on Twitter via his iPhone, and the subsequent media attention, once again exposed the public to one of the most popular Web services since Facebook and MySpace.
Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams while working for a San Francisco-based podcasting company, Twitter gained nationwide attention a year later at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, where flat-panel displays located throughout the convention showed attendees' Twitter activity.
Simply put, Twitter is a social-networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters.
Throughout the day, followers receive terse updates -- up to 20 per page. Additional software allows users to post links to photos and video as well.
By the time SXSW was over, Twitter took home the conference's "Web Award."
"We'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!" said co-founder Jack Dorsey during his SXSW acceptance speech.
Since SXSW, Twitter's accolades have come in the form of notables who regularly use it, such as President Barack Obama. Twitter has also grabbed headlines during catastrophes, like the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November and the 2007 California wildfires, when the Los Angeles Fire Department gave "tweet" updates to residents.
The bird has flown the coop, and that makes Bradenton Web developer Craig Shipp happy.
"It's a quick way to get information for what I'm working on and what I want people to know about," he said.
Shipp has been using Twitter "very actively" for the past year, operating separate pages for two existing Web sites.
With about 60 followers, Shipp monitors about 100 "feeds," ranging from sites dedicated to curiosities to tech news.
Still, Shipp knows his limits.
"Some people try to get all the followers they can, but I actually want to read Twitter posts," he said. "I could have 20,000 followers, but there's no way I could follow their posts."
Like most users, Shipp enjoys finding online tools that make Twitter more useful.
At the moment, he's toying around with 12second.tv [correction the URL is 12seconds.tv], a micro-video blog that allows Twitter users to "tweet" video.
"So if that gentleman had shot video of (Flight 1549) crashing in the Hudson," Shipp said, "he could have posted a 12-second video on Twitter."
Full article:http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090205/ARTICLE/902050316
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
iMovie 09
Today I upgraded to iLife 09 and below are two movies I produced in just a few minutes and a third that took a little longer because I added some cool effects. The movies use different themes. I changed themes with just the click of the mouse. The program is user friendly and makes it fast and easy to produce professional looking movies.
In the two samples below the movie is the same but the theme was changed. Also one is on Viddler and one is on YouTube. Notice the better default quality on Viddler. The last video showcases slow motion, picture-in-picture and voice over.
Check out the cool effects in this video:
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
TechCrunch Tablet
See link below for full article:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/19/techcrunch-tablet-update-prototype-b/
Monday, January 26, 2009
Jump Cuts
Here are some video editing tips:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=677443&seqNum=5
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Thinking of a flip? Check out the Vado HD
Creative readies the Vado HD: Is it better than the Flip Video Mino HD?Things are heating up in the HD mini camcorder space as Creative gets set to release its new Vado HD next week. The camcorder retains many of the design traits of the original Vado but it doesn't share the exact same body. However, it does have something that neither the Kodak Zi6 nor the Flip Video Mino HD has: an HDMI connection (plus an included cable) for outputting 1080i video to your HDTV. And it comes with 8GB of built-in memory--all for around $200.
Click Here for full story...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
4G Mobile Internet in 12 months?
AreaCable.com and TechTVshow.com are pioneers in Internet Broadcasting. To take the show on the road fast mobile Internet access is a must. To meet the need Verizon, AT&T and Sprint are planning to roll out 4g Mobile Broadband.
Verizon Wireless is taking a stand - in the race to deploy 4G LTE mobile broadband service, they don’t want to come in second to AT&T or Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, the latter of which said it would offer such a network commercially in 2010. According to executive vice president and chief technology officer of Verizon Communications, Dick Lynch, they plan to begin rolling the enhanced network capabilities out by about this time next year, ahead of the original 2010 timetable.
The original plan called for initial rollouts in 2010, with a wide commercial launch in 2011 and true mass availability coming shortly after. But according to an IDC analyst, Verizon’s new, more aggressive deployment schedule was likely inspired by the threat of launching after another company. Verizon wants to be first! Can you blame them? They don’t have the iPhone...
If you’re wondering what LTE is, it’s a fourth-generation wireless data system expected to be the next step up in speed and capacity for carriers using the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) platform, which is dominant in most of the world. Like Sprint Nextel’s already deployed (in one city) WiMax, it should deliver multiple megabits per second of throughput.
After introducing LTE, Verizon plans to offer subscribers small in-home base stations known as femtocells, which will extend the signal indoors - likely including built-in Wi-Fi, which will allow newer personal electronics such as cameras to automatically exchange information over the air. Imagine getting home from a trip and having your pictures automatically upload to the internet once you walk through the door. This may be a reality sooner than you think.
Full Story:
http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q408-verizon-rolling-out-4g-lte-mobile-broadband-in-2009/
Related story:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/12/11/tech-rogers.html
Related Announcement:
LG develops handset chip for fast downloads
ANYANG, South Korea (AP) — LG Electronics Inc. claimed a step forward in the commercialization of the next generation of Internet capable handsets, demonstrating a modem chip with a download speed eight times that of the fastest mobile phones currently on the market.
The South Korean company unveiled the chip, created for a technology standard known as Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, at a research lab in Anyang, just outside Seoul, on Tuesday.
The so-called fourth generation technology, still under development, is vying with the rival WiMax standard to usher in super-fast Web browsing and downloads over mobile phones and other wireless devices.
"Now that LG has developed and tested the first 4G handset modem, a commercially viable LTE handset is on the horizon," Paik Woo-hyun, LG's chief technology officer, told reporters.
LG's claim to be first could not immediately be verified.
The company said that mobile carriers have built test networks and the first mobile phones using the technology will probably be available to consumers in 2010.
LG said it achieved wireless download speeds of 60 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 Mbps. The fastest phones on the market use a different technology, known as HSDPA, and download at a maximum speed of 7.6 Mbps, according to LG.
The company said that with the technology a 700 megabit movie file can be downloaded in less than one minute at speeds of 100 Mbps.
LTE also allows consumers to stream high definition movies without needing a buffer, which ensures smooth play.
LG said that companies such as Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Verizon Wireless and Japan's KDDI Corp. are supporting and contributing to the development of the long-term evolution standard.
The rival WiMax, or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, technology is similar to the WiFi signals available at coffee shops and airports but provides wireless data over long distances and is already in use on a limited basis.
WiMax has been backed by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. of the United States.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Chevy Volt
GMs CEO Rick Wagoner will be driving one of the Chevy Volt mules in Cruze bodies through Washington DC tomorrow on his way to give testimony to the Senate Finance committee in support of government loans. He won’t actually be driving it all the way from Detroit.
He will first drive to Detroit in a hybrid Chevrolet Malibu, then he will drive a route from his hotel to GM’s Washington office,and then to Capitol Hill in the Chevy Volt running prototype, or mule.
Then he will be pulling up and stopping to talk to the public. This will occur at 9:30 AM at the corner of Delaware Ave. and C street just outside the Russell Senate Building.
If you’re able to be there, do so!
One of the production Volt show cars will be there on display as well.