I just nominated our county for the Google Fiber project as well as signed up as a business. Here’s the website if you’re local with info on the whole project: Elkhart is one of the counties hit hardest by the economic downturn. The residents of the county have endured layoffs and encountered difficulty finding new [...]
How quickly we forget what it used to be like. Remember 2004? What the world was like pre-Youtube, before politicians had “Youtube moments” and babies went viral? Of course not. We take it for granted now. This was essentially my point in commenting on this Atlantic article entitled “Cable TV is Doomed” over the weekend. [...]
With all the buzz about IE6 dying, I’d like to throw this out there. Adobe Flash is dying too. What or who is killing it off? HTML5. It’ll be a couple years though, Flash does enjoy over 99% market penetration, after all. But Apple’s continuing decision to not support Flash on their mobile devices (iPod [...]
At last, it’s happening. This is all over the Internet today, a message from Google to the world: In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. [...]
Today, Firefox 3.6 came out. And with it…functional full screen mode for the Mac! That means you can now run RedPost on a Mac Mini without having an annoying toolbar at the top of the screen like there’s been up until now. Sweet! No more second-class citizenship for DIY RedPost/Mac users. Isn’t equality grand? We’ve [...]
The following is an exchange via Facebook messaging between myself and Shirley Showalter that I thought was blog-worthy. Anyone else care to chime in? From: Shirley Showalter January 2 at 10:51am Agree? Seth’s Blog: Evolution of every medium sethgodin.typepad.com Evolution of every medium Technicians who invented it, run it Technicians with taste, leverage it Artists [...]
From an excellent article by David Leonhardt in the NY Times, emphasis mine (hat tip: The Daily Dish): Either way, the job market will still be in terrible shape. The unemployment rate, at 9.8 percent in September, could conceivably hit 10 percent for the first time since 1983. When that happens, some economists are bound [...]
Local AM radio station WTRC 1040 has been a destination for local and national news and sports since 1931. Here’s their current logo: They’re currently going through a rebranding process to become: Wowza! That’s a huge most likely driven by: declining radio news listeners (except for NPR, of course) retiring baby boomers (I mean…their slogan is [...]
While spending last weekend on a houseboat with my cousins (-ish, they’re my mom’s first cousins and their 2 kids, my aunt/uncle and 2 of their kids, who are actually my first cousins — see, wasn’t it easier to just say cousins?), I had some great discussions with my uncle Jim, who has his PhD [...]
In Friday’s Wall Street Journal James Altucher wrote a column entitled The Internet Is Dead (As an Investment): The days of infinite margins, 1,000% productivity gains, and growth of market throughout the universe are long over. Internet companies now should be treated, at best, like utility companies that get bought at about 10 times earnings [...]
