The Spark Series:

Going Live 1.0

Docs & Non-Fiction (Computers / Tech)
[ 6:36 - from eGuiders ]

Marc Ostrick and I continue our adventure into emerging tech with a return trip to Vegas for the 2010 International Consumer Electronic Show. We're on a mission to take the lessons learned from our previous outings at Blog World Expo, The Twitter Conference, and The TWiT Cottage and apply them to actually building a live streaming HD studio with Robert Scoble. Robert, Marc and I have been monitoring the increasing approach to the horizon point of ubiquitous media delivery systems. It won't be long until the line between web and traditional media is greatly blurred. We will soon be watching web content in HD through an abundance of low cost options like Boxee. CES is a complete sensory overscan, but we remained focus in our search for the products and tech that would be the right fit for a live HD streaming studio, built on a budget.

Sun and Fun at Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Comedy (Unintentionally Funny), Docs & Non-Fiction (Travel), Viral (Time Capsule)
[ 16:44 - from YouTube ]

I must confess to watching the soul-sucking Jersey Shores once. The sad part is I don't think the participants are putting anything extra into their performance. This is who they are - in all their narcissistic, lower self glory. Is it in the water? Twenty years ago it was just as grimy, as evident in this classic documentary: Highlights from Wildwood, NJ. We have to travel back Forty years ago to find something a bit less abrasive. Selling the sun and fun times as only an ad man can do -