Future Full of Newspaper? - Not if Google Can Help it.

It amuses me that many newspaper giants are in trouble after they kinda overlooked the Internet as a news delivery tool of today and tomorrow. Many newspapers still think the 'paper' is the important bit of newspaper. While the Internet undoes the old and brings in the new here's an exception: The Printed Blog.

"The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed – yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast table.

The selection of content in The Printed Blog is based solely on the votes of readers and their geographic location. In such a way, The Printed Blog revolts against the top-down, ‘one size fits all’ model of newsprint, as we know it. Instead of one paper serving hundreds of thousands of people, as is often the case, THE PRINTED BLOG publishes many localized editions based on what a community declares is important to them."

Maybe this will slow the Decline of printed news see here for what Google does to newspaper mills.

Unidentified Flying Object

This is an unidentified flying object. It was not a plane. It was seen flying over Karehana Bay today at about 9.06am. While driving to the asian vege markets I was quick enough to take this photo on my phone camera. It was only there for a matter of seconds then it was gone.

What is this? Who do you tell about this kind of shit? I figure everyone.

First man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus

Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the world's first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus strapped to his back, flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14, 2008 above Bex, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

How many people would have said this wasn't possible?

He went on to fly the english channel from Calais to Dover in September 2008. (35KM in 13 mins)

I found the pic on this great photo blog here

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50 people, one question

While working on what to do this year, I've chosen answers to these questions; What do I want to be doing - by when and how much (if any) finance is needed?

When you choose a destination with reason you get interesting character enriching side effects; Belief, hope and passion to name a few.

You see it in action within the '50 people, one question' series - Inspiring stuff to watch! Follow them here.

One thing I'm doing this year is to continue developing the choice theme.












Sorry mum, I know you have dial up and this is full of video.

Build a Place Fit for Creativity

Took me a few days to locate. I was searching for this and gave up before posting the monkeys. Someone shared this video before I was blogging and since I'm no fan of forwarding emails it stopped there.

Do any of you know of anyone employed or running an organisation that thinks like this?

How would this approach change your daily grind? Some of you are doing a few of these things already but not all of them at a guess. I'm interested...

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Generation Y

A friends employer admits they're finding it more difficult to motivate and retain staff from generation y.

I wonder if they have thought like this..

You are not a monkey nor am I suggesting your employer hire these guys to do what you do. Maybe they need to do something different though.