Here at Digital Signage Expo there’s a lot of talk about revolution. You see it on banners, brochures and of course on digital signs. But for the most part, besides being a bit bigger, there’s not too much revolutionary stuff on display. Some new (largely unavailable) display technology. Some more advanced technology (more evolutionary). Some [...]
Email signatures really have got out of hand. They started out as a nifty feature way back in the 90s where you could predefine signatures for your email messages so you wouldn’t have to copy and paste something standard every time you wrote an email. But they’re really out of hand. They’ve gotten so long, [...]
I wrote an op-ed piece that I sent out to the local papers. Check it out here. My favorite paragraph is #3 — I could write a dissertation on my feelings about the corruption of the political system, from the local level on up. But as the saying goes, democracy is the worst form of [...]
Notice how lots of tech-heads are panning Apple’s new iPad? Saying things like “it doesn’t have enough external ports, there’s no camera, no multi-tasking, it’s got a dumb name” etc. Well, they’re right. It’s not the be-all-end-all device. But if you remember back, when the iPod was released, the same tech-heads said the same things: [...]
From time to time in various fields, people proclaim the death of this or that because of technological change. The current favorites seem to be journalism and literacy/writing. Oh, woe is us. We are doomed, technology killed everything beautiful and wonderful in our lives.
My career revolves around technology: I love pondering the dangers and risks [...]
This is going to be a totally non-partisan, unbiased, 100% fact-based statement: I just got our 2010 healthcare statement and our costs are going up 28%. There is no change in the number of insured or the age brackets they fall in. Nothing’s changed except the rate. Ok, here’s the somewhat-partisan, biased commentary: 28% in one [...]
Someone on the Digital Signage Universe LinkedIn group today posted this headline:
LCD’s are starting to go “un-noticed” – they’re everywhere. Projection is back ! “floating content” is as modern as it gets
If that’s true, that LCDs are being totally ignored, 95% of this industry will be in ruins tomorrow. My rant, as usual, is that [...]
Alec commented on my post yesterday. Here’s part of his comment:
Universities don’t teach Ruby on Rails because universities are not vocational schools. Universities teach theory, ideas, and thought processes, not individual implementations. This is also why universities do not, as a rule, teach each of: Drupal, Django, WebX, CakePHP, Zend, web.py, Google Web Toolkit, Struts, [...]
Why, oh why, do universities not teach Ruby on Rails? Seriously. And why do Computer Engineering departments not overlap with Computer Science departments? As in, CE (college of engineering) is in a completely separate college than CS (college of liberal arts). This makes no sense.
Another nail in the future coffin of the digital sign industry, if it continues down the path of installing real-world banner ads (hint: they focus on weather, news and sports and not contextually relevant, high-value information) all over the place. This is an AdAge article about a ComScore study sponsored by Starcom that showed that [...]