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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Breakage 
| | The blog here is broken, somehow. I'm writing this on Thursday (like I wrote some other stuff I lost earlier), but as a Wednesday post, because Thursday doesn't work. I may have to wait for Friday to come along and just let Thursday go. |
| | Worse things happen. Life goes on. |
Neutrality begins at home
| | Bonus link: Dana Blankenhorn's An Obelisk Painted to Look Like a Rocket. That metaphor, as Dana credits, is borrowed from a post on one of the several mailing lists I'm on where Net Neutrality and the like are being discussed. |
| | If you want to see how I unpack that megaphor, you'll have to subscribe to my SuitWatch newsletter, the next edition of which will next arrive in your Inbox tomorrow morning. Or wait for it to be posted on the Web sometime after that ... probably Friday. |
Joining the edgestream
| | One of the litmus tests is that, in almost every case, a disruptive technology enables a larger population of less skilled people to do things that historically only an expert could do. And to do it in a more convenient setting. |
| | This is precisely the issue with the triumph of personal technology over mass technology, and it offers amazing opportunities for local media companies. If you're a local station, for example, pick a local information niche and go after it as if you weren't a TV station (or radio station or newspaper). What would you do and what would you build that would meet that need effectively and efficiently? I promise you it won't be an on-demand piece of content. |
| | Because here's the deal. The tools available to everyday people that are turning the media world on its head are also available to professional organizations. You don't have to approach everything with a $100,000 solution when $10,000 will do just fine. If aggregation is where its at (and I believe that it is), then build aggregators. Let other people be the content creators and move yourself to the edge. Not only is it fun there, but that's where the profitability is going to be downstream. |
| | Lots more at that last link. Dig it. |
Oh My God's Country
| | My trip back and forth across the country last week carried me above some of the most spectacular scenery on Earth. Near as I could tell, I was the only passenger looking, much less shooting pictures. |
| | The shot above is of southeasthern Utah, where the San Juan River cuts through Comb Ridge and Goosenecks State Park, just north of an exceptionally colorful desert called Cane Valley that's on almost nobody's list of tourist favorites (must really be remote and forbidding). Toward the top is the Valley of the Gods, which is nearly as spectacular as Monument Valley, which I also shot, to the southwest. |
| | This shot, like the others in the series, was taken from more than 41,000 feet up, which offered a space-like perspective. It was pretty special. Even though most of the passengers on the United 757 were dozed or dazing at King Kong, showing on the small screens. |
| | Here is a closer view of Cane Valley, the Grand Canyon and other places I shot from a lower flight path on a trip from San Diego to Denver recently. |
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