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Unemployment heat map makes me sad

This made a few twitter rounds last week, but I finally looked myself. People compared it to flu and virus outbreaks, and I can't disagree, it's a pretty disturbing picture. (translate)

eBooks unprofitable at 9.99? I call Shenanigans

I came across this on Tele-Read, and had to voice my irritation. Not only do I think it's BS that a $9.99 eBook isn't profitable I think it's outrageous that Steve Haber sucks for thinking consumers are a bunch of idiots that don't understand profit margins. Perhaps $9.99 isn't profitable for Sony (Why is sony profiting at all on eBook sales?) because Sony is a huge bloated company with (I'd guess) more middle management than it needs. Profit margins have to be high for bloated inefficient companies to survive. That's not the consumers fault, or the competition. It's an ebook, (translate)

Follow up to Netflix on my PS3

I wanted to post a quick followup to my previous post about streaming Netflix on my PS3 via a disc they send out. It's as shitty as I said. My free disc arrived and I figured, you know what, I'll try it out, maybe I'm wrong, it happens from time to time. I wasn't. The interface is craptastic. You load the disc like any other, it spends some time connecting, then it brings up a nice little screen with an alpha numeric code, that I have to plug into my Netflix account. Too bad my laptop was upstairs doing something (translate)

One more tool in my Travel toolkit – Network Location

One of the things I hate about travel (And I really do love traveling) is my laptop doing things I don't want it to do, because it doesn't know we're traveling. Thankfully, what I assumed was just a natural state of affairs, I had no control over, turns out to be a completely manageable process, thanks to Network Location. I would have never known this app existed, if not for twitter. Someone (I don't recall who) pointed out the One Finger Discount site, and after looking over the offerings, I was clicking purchase. It was especially good timing. I was (translate)

johnwilker.com – My Thoughts on V

Be warned if you haven't watched it yet, stop reading. I loved V as a kid, it was a great show, good message. Sure it was campy and Jane Badler was a psycho bitch of a bad guy, but it was a great show and set of Miniseries/TV Movies. I watched the new V the other night and while I think it's got promise, and I admit, it's a "re-imagining" it's got some work to do to measure up to the original. Sure networks today, are run by retards, who give a show 1 episode to hit #1 and if (translate)

The Nokia Invasion will NOT be Televised

Apparently Nokia thinks they need to invade the US to get people interested in their phones... I hate to break it to them, they've been here a long time, no invasion needed, better phones and OS's yes, invasion plans, no. (translate)

twitter lists and why I’m not playing

The nonconformist in me hates lists for the simple reason that everyone else is ga ga over them. ditto for google wave. But for lists there's a bigger reason, and Chris Brogan hits the nail on the head, They're exclusionary. They're the new "hottest kid in school" list posted in the locker bay. Those on it feel more self important, and those not on it, feel like less than people, and in the end, they're completely meaningless and 100% arbitrary. There's few things I hate more than internet popularity contests. (translate)

Boxee it’s quite nice!

in the meantime, it's been nice to catch up on shows on Hulu (when it doesn't freeze mid show), and stream some Netflix movies. I looked at Plex, but the Boxee interface was more friendly. To that end, Nicole has already used Boxee, liked it, and managed to navigate to watch things, without me in the room, that's a huge win for Boxee. (translate)

Stream Netflix on my PS3… Via a Blue Ray disc?

I'm not even sure where to start with how retarded this idea is. I mean, I can stream Netflix in Boxee (post on that later), sounds like Windoze media center can stream Netflix. Roku boxes can stream it. Hell I can stream it on my Macbook! So why is it that the only solution Sony and Netflix could come up with was a Blue Ray disc, that launched BD Live to access Netflix and stream the content? Really? Why not a separate device that plugs into the PS3? Maybe a special modem? maybe a USB dongle that acts as hardware (translate)

How the Library can survive and Thrive.

Tom and I were in LA for Adobe MAX a few weeks ago. On our last day before heading to LAX, we walked around the LA Public Library. It's a cool ass building, I gotta say. Massive pillars, cool art, immense open space. I hadn't been in a library in a long time, it's nice to be surrounded by books, and people who like them. As always we started talking about technology, and in particular eBooks, and eReaders, and how the library of tomorrow won't look like the one we were walking through. Here's the idea we came up with, (translate)

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