The posts here have been pretty sporadic – it’s my hope that the imminent 
arrival of a Nokia N95 cellphone (the new & slightly improved N96 is pictured to the right) will inspire me to put the thing thru its paces to see how useful a tool it is to multimedia journalists looking for an all-in-one gadget to cover the news.
There has been a mad rush to the streaming video space this year – there must be much love in Vulture Capitalist circles for streaming vid sites right now. Can’t rightly tell you why – I guess someone out there is still clinging to the old biz model of there being some kind of value in live broadcasting.
Well, when everyone is toting one of these devices around at all times, in all places, the media landscape is going to look at lot more like the world envision in such books as Farewell Horizontal, where everyone is a freelancer, broadcasting live at all times, and when they manage to stumble across an interesting live event, they immediately package it, upload it to an aggregator, and get credits for the number of people who pick it out of the flow and pay attention…