Archive for the 'YouTube' Category

An Alternate Superbowl Party

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Every year for the past who knows how long, I’ve had a sports ritual when it comes to the Superbowl game. I set my VCR … TiVo … DVR to record from just about 30 minutes before the game’s kick-off and get about 4 hours worth. During the game, I typically go do […]

Myth #5 in "YouTube and Politics"

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Mr Antonio at the Washington Post recently wrote of the political debates “televised” on YouTube. The format for the debate was people posting video questions on YouTube and Anderson Cooper selecting a set of those questions, airing them and then getting candidates’ responses. He outlined five myths about the experiment. He makes good points with good […]

On-line “just in time” education

Friday, July 6th, 2007

About 18 months ago, while contemplating a career “side step”, I proposed some ideas for “just in time education”. The premise is that, today, most people don’t have the time for formal all-day and multi-day training models and often need “just enough” to get started. Also, there is a lot of need for “point specific” […]

Software interfaces are sexy

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

 I stand fast with my technological point of view that no solution will succeed without having an established interface. I tend to leave some of Bill Gate’s creations out of the mix because monopolies don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the world. I’ll also eliminate very small niche software. These tend […]

Britain’s got class

Monday, June 18th, 2007

This evening’s USA news carried a positive sporty for once. You may have already heard about the TV show called “Britain’s Got Talent”. It’s a broader concept to American Idol. It even has Simon Cowell as one of the “judges” … better known as color commentary.
In the “audition round” Paul Potts sheepishly walks on stage […]