Highly technological people spend more time in front of their computers than in front of their TV. According to the Guardian people want TV on their PC (and not on their mobile). Maybe it’s time to get to know one of the “flickrs for video“?
Presentation Zen has done a comparison of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates doing presentations. With a special focus on Bill Gates’ last presentation about Windows Live.
The fact that Mr. Gates has totally horrible slides is interesting enough. He should know better. His advisors should know better. The fact that his only interesting competitor is one of this planet’s best speakers and has some of the best slides out there as well makes the comparison simply hilarious.
All I can say is:
– I hate bullet points
– I really hate bullet points
– Bullet points, I can’t stand them
Finally. Now I know why Microsoft PowerPoint is such an insanely crappy product.
Or simply obvious?
A while ago John Battelle asked the readers of his Searchblog to fill in a survey. 270 of his readers did. How should we interpret the results?
The readers of John Battelle’s Searchblog are among the most intense users of the internet, new technologies and gadgets out there. Sometimes they are simply geeks that do stuff that will never be mainstream. However, among John Battelle’s 270 answering readers there should be enough sane, normal, intelligent, socially skilled people to make the results interesting.
I work within the television industry and in general I think the industry don’t see how the internet will eat huge amounts of the time people currently spend on TV. Several surveys says that the net is not currently stealing a significant amount of time from traditional media. I am not saying that the internet doesn’t steal time from traditional media. I am saying that some current surveys says it steals less than someone thought at some point. That seems to relax quite a bit of people working with main stream media. I think that will change.
Broadband was the first factor to accellerate this slightly. The next step will be computers that are available in the living room and are always on. Not media centers. Regular computers. They will be there in addition to the media centers. Add modern mobile phones with 3G networks and the traditional TV have some serious competition.
Of John Battelle’s readers 60% use the internet more than 25 hours a week. 82% spend “more” or “much more” time on Internet/digital content compared with print, TV, etc.
I know that I am a geek that can’t be used to predict the future, but am I alone when I am saying that there are very few television shows that in 30 minutes can give me more fun than some good web browsing?
And what’s that picure in this post? Well, it’s two of the three computers that’s running 24/7 in our living room. Yes, I told you. I can’t be used to predict the future.
PS. And yes, the printer will vanish into a cabinet and the door in front of the computers can be closed…
A quick update on the situation
I have been using BotCheck to fight comment spam on this site. After a while I realized that BotCheck also killed all trackbacks. So, I deactivated BotCheck and installed “Bad Behavior”.
Still, after a while some spam got through. To prevent that I installed SpamKarma 2. After I installed SpamKarma I have had absolutely no spam, and one single case of a trackback that was stopped unintentionally.
So – basically I am happy as can be. Bad Behaviour + Spam Karma 2 = No Spam
In today’s issue of the podcast that the norwegian website ITAvisen publish every friday they have interviewed the Admin of this website, Eirik Solheim himself.
I am talking about blogging, media centers, open and closed video codecs and the Online Spotlight service from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Unfortunately ITAvisen is entirely published in a closed codec called Norwegian. Including the podcast. That’s bad. Wasting the advertisers money on something that only four million stinking rich privileged people there up north can utilize! (Stupid joke alert)
For the people lucky enough to master this rare language head over to ITAvisen and listen carefully.
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