Floozy Speak!

Seems Steve can't do everything right.. at least to some folks. I personally thought Steve Jobs did a fine job at the WWWDC06 conference in San Fran this week. I mean come on, its a conference for developers not core crazy kid addicts. I dunno, I really don't see where the issue is.

People are starved for the delicious goodness that Steve reeks. The man has serious charisma. He's inspiring, simple, confident and trustworthy yet wildly inventive and filled with wonder at times. He speaks people listen carefully, fully, attempting to bite on to every sound the guy makes. So now we got worthless news threads talkin about he's letting other people take the stage and talk, when really people just want to hear him!!

Oh the drama and demands. He's not gonna live forever ya know. Besides other innovators will come, from his own company as well, so let theme speak, heck they had the swedish guy up there, that was pretty cool. Took me a sec to understand him but once i did, I liked him alot.

I think its a shame folks are soo frickin critical of Steve. Apple's cult easily seems to enjoy turning on its own whenever they can. Its bad enough fighting the microsoft borg smurfs, now Steve has to battle his own fans. Ahhh well.

Personally the keynote was pretty good. No iphone, but thats ok - they really need to do some serious research on that before it breaks. Or the wifi video player, i mean we know these things could exist. Time Machine is a smart little innovation. I mean who really backs it up. Take the time away for us, what a smart idea really, make it seamless into the OS, dont force me to consider that i dont have protection, im protected already. The way time machine executes is killer as well, its dream boat visual. Love it. I also really liked core animation, that is going to fuel a whole new generation of generative art creators out there... yer gonna see VJ's and film production folks jump on that fast. Should be cool. I can't immediately wrap my head around 64 bit architecture but I'm assuming its wildly better than 32... being double and all.

Lately I've been debating buying yet another mac. I know, crazy, but it's true. I'm itching for another toy. What kind? A white macbook portable. Why? Portable recording studio makes me go ya ya ya. I'd like to have something when I travel, and for gator production goodness. Actually it could be a toss up between the macbook and the mac mini. Mini + TV could be interesting, create a little tvio type action downstairs, play with some apps. I dunno. By the time i beef up a mini, i could get full book.

In other news be sure to visit - this place is, a cool new blog built by one our design researchers out in california. Her and her husband have spun up this new project site. Maybe you could help them generate content as well, i'm sure all of us are impacted by spaces in different ways. Check it!

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Scripiting News gets it right… I love the pic to the USA and california in red, seems like only the west coast gets all the events.

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Sometimes being ahead of your time sorta backfires.  HEAVY.com was/is/could be one of the bigger citizen media type sites on the planet.  Course it did sell out in multiple ways i think, but its a site that you have to go to, you don’t see it unless u go to it. 

Maybe that concept is confusing, maybe its more about how it used to be “in” and now it feels really out.  Other media outlets on the net seem to come to you more, you see them in the outlets, you find their content easier. 

Heavy was cool about two years ago, it was like a fringe mtv network, flash based and pretty frickin wild, they definately kept the actionscript community on the edge of their seats i think.  Now I dunno much about it any more.  They dived deep into original content and less “crappy” clips of the net feel.  But this is isn’t yesterday…You Tube has taken over their infected clips scene and things like RocketBoom and CurrentTV, fireAnt and more have filled in all the other gaps. 

Sure they just got 10million in funding but funding to do what?  They need to land on the TIVO or something.  I mean everyone moving into position for my attention these days.  TIVO, Apple and the Itunes dealio, fireAnt taking the vblog scene, CurrentTV taking whats left along with You Tube, I dunno where Heavy fits.  Om’s got some ideas, and I didn’t realize they had downloads for PSP and iPod, but I still their “classic freshness” that was cool about 2 years ago. 

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I've been having fun with different plugin extensions for firefox lately...

HEYA MIKE! 

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