I dig this show, partly because you can see things that you never could have seen before. Something that would be helpful in life many times. Slow it down and look at what is really happening.

Interestingly enough, the last Time Warp post got hit a bunch because of the Pole Vaulting subject matter.

It might be more that Kristen Bakanowski was the vaultist (sp/term), I could be wrong.

First of all forgive my lack of posting (I’m in my own dark time right now). I had surgery on Monday but hope to be back at a regular schedule by next week. Here is the story that made me cry a little:

Obama might be , but his tech-savvy staffers are reportedly stunned by the West Wing’s painfully antiquated gear, not to mention a constricting, Web 2.0-stifling catalog of security and record-keeping regulations.

As this funny/sad story in the Washington Post reports, Obama’s team arrived at the White House Tuesday to find only a handful of laptops, old PCs running outdated software, disconnected phone lines, and a series of rules and regulations that essentially forbid anything resembling Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, or AIM…. .

It’s all over the place by now but here is the story of the Hudson River emergency landing on Seattle morning news.

Found this on Donklephant, banner above, and thought it might be an interesting viewing of how the separation of church and state works and how the Mormon Church’s involvement with Proposition 8 might have changed the results.

It’s important to take the personal opinion out of this and look at the power of, the drive of a group that wants to have a specific outcome.

It will be interesting to see what happens as this story moves forward.

One of the other interesting points in the video is how much the Mormon Church is using the digital media to get its point across. Three old dudes talking about texting, blogging…and so on, must have been on the teleprompter.

Thanks for the original post Donklephant.

Sadly it might not be a joke and someone actually thought it was clever. Songsmith is an interesting idea but this is not the way to show it off.

I watched it all in hopes that Ricky Gervais walked out and gave everyone a backhanded compliment.

Thanks for the link Dane.

Eco-friendly technology is not only highly anticipated, but necessary by common understanding.

…and while we pursue this concept of earth preservation and the impact that humans impose, we may still overlook some things.

The material values and industrial dependency involved in these equations provide a huge oversight in the rise of these new techniques.

This is on the level of a paradigm shift, and that takes many things.

The F3DM is an example of the hybrid movement, but still very limited in acceptance.

Many would say that everyone sees the direction, why can we not make the switch more quickly?

In my opinion humans, as connected beings, need a sudden common appreciation if anything is going to change. That is, if there is anything to change. That’s beyond me!

This is not an argument in either direction regarding Global Warming.

Good luck to these guys and anyone in a startup or looking for a job should read about this one and they are just around the corner from me:

Every so often I come across some entrepreneur who reminds me why it is so much fun covering this beat. That happened Tuesday when I sat down with the energetic founders of Eggsprout, a Bellevue startup that is trying to transform the way people find jobs online.

It wasn’t so much the business. After all, enough people have attempted to revolutionize the job search category over the years(Jobster, anyone?) What caught my attention was the passion and drive exhibited by Brian Ma and Hsu Ken Ooi — the former University of Washington whizzes — that are leading Eggsprout.

They’re young (all five employees are under the age of 25); smart (Ma graduated early from the UW with a dual degree in computer science and electrical engineering); thrifty (the Bellevue basement where they work has limited heat); and hungry (They are foregoing salaries, surviving on chicken nuggets.)

Furthermore, the Eggsprout team — which is launching their service today after months of development and less than $10,000 in startup costs  — are not letting something like the worst economic recession in years stand in their way.

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I’m a big fan of John Battelle, which is why Federated Media represents DHADM and Transbuddha on media buys.

I’m also a big fan of his yearly predictions which are often very accurate. Here are the headlines, check out his site for the details.

When you go a read his predictions for 2008 and how they turned out it’s worth reading his predictions for 2009.

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1. Macro economy: We’ll see an end to the recession, taken literally, by Q4 09. In other words, the economy will begin to grow again by the end of the year, but it won’t feel like we’re out of the woods till next year at the earliest. …

2. The online media space will be hit hard by the economic downturn in the first half, but by year’s end, will have chalked up moderate gains over last year in terms of gross spend. ….

3. Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time ever. It will also struggle to find an answer to the question of how it diversifies its revenue in 2009. Search is the ultimate harvester of demand, and Google has become search’s Archer Daniels Midland - wherever a seed of demand might pop its head through the web’s soil, Google is there to harvest it. …

4. Despite #3 above, Google stock will soar in by Q3-4 of 2009,…

5. Tied to #3 above, Microsoft will gain at least five points of search share in 2009, perhaps as much as 10. This is a rather radical prediction, I know, but hear me out…

6. Yahoo and AOL will merge.

7. However, in the second half of the year, Microsoft will buy its search monetization from the combined company.

8. Apple will see a significant reversal of recent fortunes. I sense this will happen for a number of reasons (), but I think the main one will be brand related - a brand based on being cooler than the other guy simply does not scale past a certain point. I sense Apple has hit that point.

9. Major brands will continue to struggle with the best way to interact with "social media." They will take budget reserved for media spending (IE buying banners and building out branding campaigns) and start to become publishers in their own right….

10. Agencies will increasingly see their role as that of publishers. Publishers will increasingly see their role as that of agencies. Both can win at this, but only by understanding how to truly add value to real communities - not flash crowds driven by one time events…

11. Twitter will continue its meteoric rise. This is a very hard prediction to make, because so much depends on the company’s ability to execute two crucial - and exceedingly difficult - new features: The integration of search into the service, and the monetization of that integration…

12. Facebook will do something entirely shocking and unpredictable. I am not certain what, but it won’t have a "status quo" year. It might be a merger with a traditional media company, a major alliance with Google, hiring a head scratcher as CEO, or something else at that level of "WTF!?" …

13. Lucky #13 is reserved for my eternal mobile prediction: 2009 will see the year mobility becomes presumptive in every aspect of the web….

14. Lastly, I promise, I will have sold my book and will be hard at work on it. And yes, still running FM too. I think I have a way to do both, given I wrote 15K words last year without even knowing it….

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I was thinking a massive heart attack with a glass of whisky in one hand, a fist full of dollars and a stripper pole in sight…but this is much more poetic:

On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.

Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.

On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband’s death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.

“I’m numb,” Charlotte Peters, 78, said at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill.

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