Archive for September, 2006
Springfield Blogger’s Meeting
I’d just finished shooting Branson from the sky in a 57 Cessna. It’s almost 7:30 and I’m racing northbound on the 65 to catch the Springfield Blogger’s meeting. From the airport it’s 50 miles to downtown Springfield. I’d been planning on going to the meeting for months to represent Branson Missouri – but – I’m […]
Posted: September 21st, 2006 under Springfield.
Comments: 5
Amazon Releases Unbox Slapping Apple in the Face
Amazon released a new video downloading service today. Apple computers has a secret announcement tomorrow. The top secret announcement will be an offering of a new video service. (Shhhhhh!) Amazon beat them to the punch making the service unavailable to Apple users, adding a lap in the face. By the way, has it ever occured […]
Posted: September 12th, 2006 under Video Blogging.
Comments: 1
Video Blogging Yahoo Video VS YouTube VS Google Video Video Services Compared
Video is hot. National attention from mainstream media has pumped up the dialogue and traffic to a number of services that utilize user generated video hosting products. Over the last few days I uploaded a video to Yahoo, Google and You Tube to compare the services.
Best Feature: UserBase, most views after uploading.
Branson Fiddle Contest JR’s […]
Posted: September 10th, 2006 under Uncategorized, Video Blogging.
Comments: none
Google Image Labeler - 3 hours as a Google Lab Rat
Let’s face it R&D is expensive. But what if you changed it into a video game? Works well was my conclusion after being a Google Lab rat in Image Labeler . I dedicated my time to helping Google improve its Image search capacity. Why? They made it into a video game and I needed to […]
Posted: September 9th, 2006 under Uncategorized, Photoblogging.
Comments: 1
Reuters Video News
Reuters, a leader in news publishing has always been an early adapter in digital news publishing renting booths at tech trade shows pre Drudge Report.
Reuters Video News has now come out of beta and is available through Brightcove.
Advantage - The Reuters news service is available free after a verification process
Disadvantage - The Video player is […]
Posted: September 9th, 2006 under Newspaper 3.0, Video Blogging.
Comments: 2
Bootable Jump Drive
I’m very jealous of this little gadget. It’s a bootable jump drive offered by the makers of DSL. It only costs $60 bucks but I don’t have the cash to throw at it at the moment, so I’m going to try to make my own SanDisk Cruzer Micro 512MB Jump Drive into a bootable volume […]
Posted: September 8th, 2006 under Gadgetry.
Comments: 3
Google Maps Sent Me On A 6-State Route To Nashville
This would allow me to plan my trip to Branson by way of Nashville, with a return trip via Hell’s Gate, MI (if I so desired)
Posted: September 7th, 2006 under Uncategorized, Mapping.
Comments: 4