Rahaf Foush has a new video blog series called the Foush Reports in which her first report she covers CaseCamp7. Or rather the CaseCamp7 afterparty. Watch for my sound bite on the camp phenomenon about half way through. The CaseCamp7 afterparty was so much fun it made my nipples glow. (not pictured here) Stay tuned to the casecamp.org site (or this blog) for news of the next casecamp event.
Back in town, almost recombobulated
Sorry for the lack of posts and general lack of comments around here, I was in a better place. Just now getting caught up on emails, posts, ideas and a lot of work to catch up on. If I haven’t responded to you, I should by the end of the day.
As a side note, it turns out we noticed there’s wifi all about the British Virgin Islands. Tall mountains and long horizons being, as you might guess, fairly optimal for wireless signal propagation. So you can signal from the deck of your boat either through edge/3G/Wifi from the deck your boat.
But it’s really hard to want to turn it on. Which may (maybe?) explain why the hell it is we work from wherever we do, instead of someplace like this.
This photo by David Anders [more]
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Trouble at the Video Store Part 2
My last post [Trouble at the video store] seemed to have caused a bit of an “OMG I Know” stir in the comments.
Here is the other shoe.
Clearly the video rental model, like that of the CD store is well known, even by it’s owners, as obsolesced industry coasting through it’s sunset years. Despite a diminishing base, they can probably make money a while yet provided they don’t have to invest heavily to change anything. Sure it’s increasingly anachronistic, but if the system still works for now, what the heck right.
What’s bigger though is the much broader parable to retail in general.
There’s a lot of the connected and information-rich experience we now take for granted in online shopping world which is still conspicuously and almost entirely absent not just at Blockbuster but also at your favourite clothing retailer, home/office despots, grocery store or nifty boutique for that matter.
So much thought, tech and innovation poured into eccommerce shopping. Yet the grand prize, the retail retailing market is still out there and nearly 10 times as big. A few innovations like credit cards and elevator music aside, in 2008 we’re still shopping at retail with pretty much the same experience we had in 1908.
what gives?
There’s a general category to file this thought under: Easy Web2 stuff + thinking outside the screen + ubiquitous rich connectivity = the next big thing