Ultrawideband, a New Faster Way to Connect
Wired News reports on Ultrawideband technology, which makes it possible to do things like stream high-definition television signals throughout the home, send video shot on a digital recorder live across the internet, and even connect a digital music player to a car’s stereo system — all with a wireless connection. […]
How to Talk to Your 20-Something Employees
Random Access vs. Linear Thinking: From Twitchspeed. “The under-30 generation is the first to experience hypertext and “clicking around,” in children’s computer applications, in CD-ROMs, and on the Web. This new information structure has increased their awareness and ability to make connections, has freed them from the constraint of a […]
Iranians Want Rock and Roll Too!
Ali Akbar Dareini writes for the AP today about how Iran is laughing at their new president’s decree to ban Western Music. “This president speaks as if he is living in the Stone Age…this man has to understand that he can’t tell the people what to listen to and what […]
Publicity is Always Good!
The Christmas season is always the most busy and rushed time of the year. But in all of this excitement, some of us thrive; we like it busy, busy, busy with all sorts of stuff coming at you at once. Well I do anyway. This morning Tom Vannah from the […]
The Tricked out Ads Rock the Best!
More from Mediaweek. Magazine sales executives, described in this piece as a supremely jaded group, have been wowed by the kinds of ad pieces made possible by Americhip, a California company that produces the underlying technology in all those multimedia ads so popular these days. Americhip is the largest of […]
Are Ads Dead?
From the LA Times today. The Advertising Model Is Dying: Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein has put his comic touch to the topic of advertising, which he posits is no longer a viable enterprise. How *can* it be? When HBO, which books no ads, is the most profitable network, […]
Dentistry in Faraway Places
This morning I had a root canal. It only hurt when I paid. But while the doctor was getting ready, he told me he traveled to South America and Africa helping poor people by fixing their teeth. In the Latin countries, he said he had no problem using sign language […]