Stopped by the CT-N Studio on Primary Night to check in with our good friend Diane Smith who was holding down the fort, literally, for her broadcast coverage.
Disturbing Twitter Behavior
Twitter recently suspended the account of Guy Adams, a British newspaper reporter for The Independent, after he posted complaints about NBC’s tape-delayed Olympics coverage. His posts included the e-mail address of Gary Zenkel, the head of NBC Olympics. The problem was that Twitters explicit policy states that it does not monitor the tweets of its users. BUT, NBC and twitter are bedfellows regarding social media coverage of the London games.
What has been a terrible PR debacle for Twitter and NBC has been a bonus for the reporter, now infamous for being outed by Twitter.
Mr. Adams said he had about 4,500 followers before he was kicked off Twitter. By Tuesday night, after Twitter reinstated his account, he had 16,300 followers.
Here’s another story about the mess and the implications worth checking out from the New York Times.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/daily-report-twitter-learns-a-lesson/
Internet VS Television: The Olympic Battle Showdown
Olympics video reflects Internet’s tension with TV
This interesting story in the Miami Herald discusses the daily ritual in my household. We can go on line and read/watch who has captured the gold and get real time standings, or we can WAIT for the long, drawn out NBC TV presentation of what they edit and want to show us complete with commercial interruption. I generally do both.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/31/2923540/olympics-video-reflects-internets.html#storylink=cpy
Much-Needed Innovation in eMail May Be Around the Corner
This is excerpted from an interesting article I came across this morning and I agree that the e-mail experience needs upgrading.
“… despite huge increases in the volume of email we deal with in the last eight years, little has been done to improve the core experience. Yes, Google launched Priority Inbox. It’s supposed to help you figure out the important mail; for me, it’s been largely useless. Scanning through my inbox, very little of what Google has marked important really is.
Google’s other major moves with Gmail have largely been about trying to exploit its huge number of mail users into whatever lame social product Google is trying to bootstrap. (Remember Buzz?)
But better email tools could improve productivity for everyone. In the current version of Outlook mail, there isn’t enough innovation to get me to switch. But the existence of a new and credible player who wants to win may drive much-needed innovation in email. Here are some core things that would get me to switch by delivering value, not by tricking people like Facebook tried to do:”
To read the suggestions click here:
Technology Musings
Andrew and I were having one of those random “technology” conversations this morning in the office. I marvel as I watch the Olympics and how technology is able to determine the difference between Gold and Silver medalists down to a 100th of a second and wonder if the silver medalists before this technology came along are scratching their heads wondering if they really won years ago? Andrew was thinking about technology in regard to how quickly we discard it and move on to the next greatest thing. His robotics team was searching for a serial to USB port connector. Who makes those anymore? I had one in a drawer unopened! Our attention turned to a trailer for the new Bourne Legacy movie coming out in just a few days. (Can’t wait) Then I stumbled upon this story and the findings of two very enterprising medical students at the Defcon Hacker Conference. They believe “that the day is not so distant when we will be able to “mod” our organic bodies with inorganic mechanical and electronic materials that enhance our augment our basic abilities. They refer to the coming era of human augmentation as “transhumanism.”
Whoa!
Read the rest of the story here:
Blade Runner for real: The days of augmenting human bodies with “mods” are coming
