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Month: September 2007

  • Thoughts on the ipod touch

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I dropped by the apple store and bought an ipod touch at the same time as a friend. both of us were speaking about how we were going to wait the five hours before the device was charged. I didn’t. I plugged it into the laptop and let it charge…

  • Andrew Keen at the Frontline Club

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesContent creation and distribution has become far cheaper than it was in the past. Whereas in the past you’d have tons of equipment to create television programs today the barriers to entry are lower as a result of which the cult of the amateur is allowed to flourish. As the technology is…

  • A trip to the apple store

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    Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with technology is fun especially when you could fit it into your shirt pocket. The ipod s one such device. it fits easily into the pocket and can play video, allow for the viewing of photos and more. I also like the user interface, whether the fact the screen is…

  • Travian, an online game

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTravian is one of those games you would have loved to play after reading a few Asterix comics. There are three civilisations you can be, Gaul, Roman or Teuton. Each player starts off with one village and expands from there. There are four types of resources. These are wood, clay, iron…

  • Why a 20% drop is not necessarily a bad thing for myspace

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to recent articles myspace is losing user share in relation Facebook but this is not necessarily a bad thing. When you think of facebook you know that it’s a glorified phonebook therefore everyone “needs” to use it to remain in the loop. In contrast Myspace is a specialised music sharing…

  • After two months as a camera operator in the UN General Assembly hall in Geneva…

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesA tall slender woman was sitting on a chair by the podium where her husband was delivering a presentation to a hall filled with people. Each group of four people had a white board in front and on this board was the name of the deleguation. Canada, USA, France, Lithuania and more.…

  • The mobile phone app

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryday at least one friend has one of their friends lose their mobile phone and all numbers on that device. As a result you find that there are hundreds of groups with the title “named individual has lost their phone” where everyone is expected to post their mobile number for quick…

  • Andrew Keen, Cynthia Mckinney and Jeff Blankfort

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently dropped by the Frontline club to listen to what Andrew Keen had to say and his talk was really interesting. There are a few ideas that I found were interesting and I’m still planning on getting something written up about the event. Last night I met up with Documentally…

  • MTV and international oversight

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the VMA are advertised everywhere and where there is easy access to information about everything that is going on around the world MTV appears short sighted. If you’ve got an award ceremony that you’re telling the world about then you’d better give the world access to all the footage for…

  • The “Jobs” sense

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re the head of a company that’s doing as well as Apple there’s something you’ve got to be admired for. It’s the ability to sell a phone with no keyboard and get people to love it. It’s also about selling it for $599 and taking it back down to $399.…