Archive for the 'Tidbits' Category

DSE ‘10 Gossip

March 1st, 2010

A fun round-up of Digital Signage Expo 2010 gossip by Adrian Cotterill over at DailyDOOH. My favorite:

If there really was a USD 1,000 fine levied by the LVCC for anyone caught using an unofficial / unlicensed wireless router then there were at least a dozen brave souls that we saw using 3G/Gg wireless routers on [...]

U.S. Manufacturing: Not the sink hole you think it is

March 1st, 2010

A fascinating article over at 538:
There is a common theme across the internet: US manufacturing is dead and it’s never coming back. Well, there’s a big problem with that analysis: it’s not true. In fact, as the chart above indicates, it’s actually false. Note that since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from [...]

Goodbye Hummer

February 24th, 2010

South Bend, located beside Goshen (where RedPost is) in neighboring St. Joseph County, just got some bad news — GM is closing down the Hummer plant. That shouldn’t help our local unemployment numbers one bit (somewhere around 1,500 people work there).
It’s also marks the end of an economic era in the U.S..

No more LCDs? cont’d

January 25th, 2010

This just out today on DigitalSignageToday:
In an article on triplepundit.com, writer Kathryn Siranosian looks at Laser Phosphor Display technology recently released by Prysm. The company’ CEO, Roger Hajjar says that the new LPD technology has the lowest cost of ownership and smallest carbon footprint of any large format display currently on the market. Furthermore, it [...]

Cornfields, ice cream, density and Ohio

August 25th, 2009

I was critiqued today for blogging less in the last month or so. It’s just been busy around these here parts! So I’m not sorry, but I do apologize. I’m taking a two-day trip through Ohio and back to Goshen this week, part of my fall o’ travel now that we’re busy. (photo credit: James [...]

Vendor/Client Relationships

May 27th, 2009

Of course, RedPost has no clients like this. Nor is RedPost ever, EVER a client like this:

Hat tip to Bryan at Haiku.

Human Interface

May 21st, 2009

Too cool. Some content not kid-friendly.

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

Delicious links for February 3, 2009

February 3rd, 2009

The latest links from Eric’s internet-information-addiction, compliments of Delicious:
Agency Clients Slash Budgets 20% or More, Digital Only Bright Spot
62% of N. American CEOs think digital ad spending will grow this year.
(tags: digitalsignage economy advertising downturn spending digitaladvertising)
Business Dynamic Statistics Briefing: Jobs Created from Startups
“…it is striking that business startups remain robust even in the most [...]

Change(s)

January 30th, 2009

We’re busy as…beavers (?)…here at RedPost, with the following changes on the way:

First and by far most importantly: You may notice that, to the right, the list of my Delicious links is gone, gasp! But don’t worry, they’ll now appear in daily posting via a handy little Perl script (thanks Stephen). I also experienced some [...]

Tidbit: Ad agencies and Intellectual Property

December 18th, 2008

From this article from my delicious feed this week about the ad agency Anomaly, based in NYC, who’s attempting to profit off it’s creative juices in the downturn:
I/denti/tee is one of a handful of projects Anomaly has under way that bears little resemblance to the work done at ad agencies. The firm collaborated with Target [...]