My great friends Danny Newman and Joe Pezzillo and I were doing a photo shoot for the Boulder Daily Camera the other night. We were goofing around and taking some photos to accompany an article about barcamp, an incredibly cool network of user generated conferences. The three of us have been heavily involved with making the Denver and Boulder BarCamps tick.
Danny and Joe are about as new media as you can possibly get, and it was a bit ironic when old media and new media went toe to toe… it looked something like this:
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when old media adopts new media… I would love to see more of these authoritative and trained professionals writing blogs and perhaps producing video shows. We are seeing it happen now in radio (thanks for that tip Seth).
By the way, the giant Goss Metro offset printing press shown above was installed in 1973 and has seen some love and overhauls during its existence. But is still going strong today at the Daily Camera office on 11th and Pearl in amazing Boulder, Colorado.
February 14th, 2007
Yahoo recently introduced a new tool for folks to mash up web properties and make some cool apps – Yahoo Pipes. One of my colleagues and a super smart and super cool guy, Nick Bradbury, recently did some plumbing.
I love Yahoo and the fact that they are pushing the envelope here, but I think the only people that will be able to grok this are developers, and we already have tools for doing this that provide more flexibility and autonomy. But I am not dissing Pipes or Yahoo… this is a great piece of work!
On the one hand Yahoo is wetting the appetite of the geek community w/ Pipes and that is cool. Yahoo is definitely upping the ante here with the notion of a web based IDE … very nice. But Yahoo already has a very strong asset and an asset that makes me believe they will continue to shine regardless of any doubts or jelly stains. Yahoo owns mom and pop.
Literally, Yahoo owns my mom and pop. I recently went home for my sister’s 40th birthday and ever y time my mom or dad got on their computer, their experience was occurring inside the Yahoo space. They check mail, weather, news, sports. My mom loves word games and she used to buy the little soft cover jobbies. Now she uses Yahoo. My dad was always looking at the Yahoo finance stuff. Oh, and they both use the search INSIDE Yahoo.
Yahoo, would you like some milk with that peanut butter sandwich? Peanut butter is my favorite food… it is loaded with protein and provides plenty of fuel to get through the day 
February 14th, 2007
