Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

Bitcoin and other new “altcoins” are all the rage, so here’s a good starting point reference chart.  If you follow all the links provided within this one page’s listings, you might spend days of research.  Go to https://coinmarketcap.com/ and learn for yourself what all the excitement is about.

I too mourn the passing of the brilliant Steve Jobs.  Many have wondered how long into the future will Steve Jobs’ creative spirit continue.  Since the new Apple corporate headquarters is designed for use in 2015, I’d say that’s the minimum time frame.

Considering the visionary Steve Jobs, my guess is that this workplace will be much more than the ordinary office space.  Silicon Valley housing is very expensive.  Therefore it is often impossible recruit and move talented candidates within comfortable commuting distance.  I have experienced this problem first hand, and know of many others who have left jobs because of inconvenient location and logistics, rather than specific work related reasons.  I believe the most successful corporations of the future, in order to retain the best and the brightest, will be the ones that create the familial environment of a small tribal village.  On campus corporate housing and apartment facilities, similar to universities, will solve expensive housing and commuting problems.

In this architectural plan Jobs connects with enlightened New Age thinking with a huge hogan in the round design.    “Round up your wagons into a circle,” the pioneer leader called.

Excited to learn that my friends at Azureus aka Vuze have developed a new technology, Fanhattan.  Stay tuned!

Follow up, May 30, 2012.  Fanhattan shortens name to Fan TV, and announces new set top box technology.

Fan TV set top device

Sony releases Reader app for Android 2.2.  There appears to be a demand for other versions, as in this blog post from the Sony eReader Journal.  I’m working on a similar app for other platforms.

Heading into SF on BART last Tuesday on business, noticed the growth and development of the Lafayette Crosses memorial. Here are a few photos of how it looked.

My appointment in SF took me near the Moscone Center, where the Web 2.0 Conference was readying for its open on Wednesday. It seemed quiet. Not much to shoot photos of. Looked at the Web 2.0 program and did not see companies listed that I perceive to be collaborative, social networking websites. Instead I noticed large computer and telecomm corporations, and Disney.com. Since when is Disney collaborative?

What a joke. The best way to get into Web 2.0 is to use it on the web. The rest is just hype. Back in Lafayette stands a truly collaborative work, low tech, with heart and humanity… but at what a cost.

Here is an experiment using Slide to build a slideshow from my Photoshop collages posted on this blog.

I’ve been away for awhile… on vacation, at the beach, golfing, working on a project that is way past due, hovering between boredom and stress, poverty and contentment.

Anyway, I thought I’d post a nice bloggy woggy entry with an old classic Grebe black and white photo of a guy with his shirt off sitting on park bench near the Brooklyn Bridge. So, I get out my old Kodak Photo CD with 100 of my favorite film negatives from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s scanned in the Kodak Photo CD format way back in 1996. Now here is what makes the technology era so frustratingly, rapidly changing: it turns out Photoshop CS3 and CS2 fail to open these files!

When Googling the problem, a link to Adobe came up, but their solution did not work on my Apple Mac G5.

There are lost image pioneers that have gone before me in this search for solutions, such as Ted’s Unofficial Kodak Photo CD Homepage. I guess my previous versions of Photoshop’s PhotoCD plugins were OK, or I would have noticed this gross legacy error sooner. Another entry is from the year 2000, “What ever happened to the Photo CD?”

Kodak, you losers. You deserve to die a slow death in the transition from film to digital.

Hobnobbing in front of Walnut Creek’s Apple Store with the iWait.org crowd, who were holding places on line to be among the first to purchase the highly anticipated new Apple iPhone.  Visiting around 4 pm, I asked an iWait kid, about number twelve in line, how much he was selling his place in line for.  His answer, “Two-fifty.”

The glass front of the Apple store was covered from the inside with heavy black paper, I assume to be unveiled at the 6 pm iPhone sales opening. There was a carnival atmosphere building Friday evening at Walnut Creek’s upscale shopping district, the pulse quickening with iPhone launch excitement.

For those who care not to wait, there are plenty of exotic phone gadgets already on the market, such as this Verizon LG model (below).