Watching Anderson Cooper on CNN.com you get a sense that he’s 70% humanitarian and 30% pimpin. For example he’s carrying this child out of harms way.

If you watch the clip he carefully weighs his options based on where that camera is. I can’t hate on that, the man IS “hands on” in his reporting game. I got to give CNN a gold star on this one, the reporting has been heartfelt and excellent. Hopefully, CNN has learned it’s lesson with “Balloon Boy”.

Watch the whole clip: Anderson Cooper’s News Swagger

HAPPY WINDOWS 7 DAY!!!
Make sure you get your copy, this week several real time web search plays drop with everyone in a perceived “rush” to get their solutions in place. Lala is at the center of at least 2 music distribution colabs with Google & Facebook. I must admit, Lala gets my money first having a larger collection of obscure music and great price point. In other news, social sites can literally wish you to death as seen with the current Kanye West RIP meme. This has been big news all week.

RIP Kanye West - http://www.whatthetrend.com/trend/RIP+Kanye+West
The popular forum ebaumsworld spread the rumour of a Kanye West death, which caught on Twitter’s trending topics. Since then, contrarians, gullible folks, and “Imma let you finish” jokes have kept the trend afloat…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Social Search - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/breaking-google-launches-social-search/
Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature…
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Facebook Adds Digital Music to Gift Store - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-lala/
Imagine being able to gift a track to a friend on Facebook. Now you can, thanks to today’s Facebook announcement of a revamped gift store that includes a music selection powered by Lala…
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Facebook: 45 Million Status Updates Every Day - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-sheryl-discussion/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg took the stage. She sat down for a Q&A with Federated Media’s John Battelle to discuss Facebook’s deal with Bing, its long-term goals, advertising, Facebook Connect, and more…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Search Deal With Twitter - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/google-twitter-search-deal/
While we’re still digesting the news of Bing adding Twitter to its search engine, Google has some news of their own: they’re about to do the same exact thing…
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19% of Internet Users Now Use Status Updates - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/pew-september-data/
The Pew Internet and American Life Project is part of a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that explores trends around the Internet, publishing reports about their findings on a regular basis…
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REVEALED: Details of Bing’s Twitter Search [Screenshots] - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/bing-tweet-deal/
This morning, big news broke that Microsoft had penned deals with Facebook and Twitter that will integrate status updates from the two popular social media services into the Bing search engine…
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Microsoft’s Online Store Gets A Revamp, Now Sells Windows 7 PCs Too - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/22/microsofts-online-store-gets-a-revamp-now-sells-windows-7-pcs-too/
Coinciding with the worldwide debut of Windows 7 and the launch of physical retail stores throughout the world, Microsoft has revamped its online store as well…
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MySpace Adds Full Music Video Archives, Deep Artist Analytics - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/myspace-adds-full-music-video-archives-deep-artist-analytics/
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta will make a number of announcements on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Among them are two major changes to MySpace Music. The service will now have a full historical archive of music videos from the major labels and independents. And they are also launching an artist dashboard to give musicians deep analytics into profile views, music streams, and friend information…
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The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/web-2-0-summit-facebooks-vp-of-engineering-on-scaling-facebook/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering talked a bit about the infrastructure of the company…
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Google Music Service: The Screenshots - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-the-screenshots/
None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it…

Mike told me that he would sing a Chinese song with “LaLa FuFu” in it on video. So when I showed up with my video camera this was his response. Enjoy…

Fast forward to the future

Well, our future is a lot different than I envisioned. As a child of the 60’s our race to the stars confirmed our commitment to space exploration and the promise of colonization of other worlds. Sadly, we’ve lost the passion generated in those competitive days of the Camelot era as the US raced to be the first nation to put a man on the moon. The visions of a world of worlds sadly won’t happen in our lifetimes, as the dreams of our leaders died rather abruptly with them. Space exploration will have to wait as our economy will take decades to repair.

Cue the Internet

Up until 1995 my life was pretty lack luster. I dreamed of traveling the stars but that would never happen. Luckily, one way to explore that had been foreseen and written about was the Internet. “The Net“ saved my life by giving me an outlet that exposed me to an entire world of knowledge and people I would never meet otherwise. With the Internet, I learned new skills and created opportunities for myself, made a living, purchased a home and gave my life a purpose.

My passion

Above and beyond the various skill-sets I’ve developed over the years, the idea of how people use the Internet has always intrigued me. Being here as long as I have, I’ve seen trends die and become reborn on more then one occasion. Watching people discover these things and how they use them is what drives me to learn. Documenting the things they do has become my passion. It’s understanding people and predicting their actions around technology that gives me my hope for the future and the fact that I can have a hand at shaping it is very important to me.

Ultimately, through social networking we’ll learn the sum of our parts and grow towards a global understanding of our place in this universe. The stability of our world depends on man’s unique ability to affect change in our environments. Just as man destroys, man can rebuild. The promise of a world where drawn borders are erased is the future. The Internet has become my passion for the future.

-tm

1. Weight must come off in increments of at least 10 lbs a month.
2. House must be clean and stay clean at all times. Everything must be clean.
3. Set up a health care policy.
4. Pay all bills on time and get rid of redundant bills
5. Examine Tax situation and make arrangements to settle anything that may be pending.

It’s a short list I know but if Barack can do this remarkable thing I can at least do these things.

Watching coverage of #Gustav while following CNN’s @ricksanchezcnn. I’m loving that you have all of these people from trusted sources now interacting on our social plain.

More value follows this week:

1. The Onion (TheOnion)
2. Virgin America (thisishowtofly)
3. blackobserver.com (blackobserver)
4. PoPolitickin (PoPolitickin
5. huffpost (huffpost)
6. TIME (TIME)

Thanks guys from bringing useful content to the space.

She allegedly “found” the Myspace profile page (see Google Cache) of *..mercede..*’s, someone she claims is the sister of Bristol Palin’s baby daddy. She also took the photos from this myspace account and placed them here in Photobucket.

So what’s the plan Gia? Does anyone really care what these HillBIllies really look like? I could care less.They’re kids and kids fuck up. What’s more interesting to me is that the parent’s don’t have any control over their kids. What impact can this Palin woman have if she can’t control her own family?

Gia you live in the UK so you’re lucky. You don’t have to worry about these HillBillies coming after you. They do love their guns.

-holla

It has been a while since this blog was last updated. Life sometimes takes over and drags you along. With that said, I’ve had a few days to figure out what to do with this blog. Well the good news is I think I’ve figured it out. I plan to blog about life as discovered and viewed via Twitter post and links. I’ll offer my opinions and show my readers new and interesting things I find on Twitter. These post will also be a lot shorter because that’s whats micro-blogging is all about.

-Cheers!

Lately I’ve been watching less and less of Comcast programing. The DVR Comcast supplys to me at a cost of $30 bucks a month for 2 boxes is not only disappointing but after 7 years of renting them I’ve paid $2,520.00 for the privilege.  THIS IS MADNESS!!! So guess what Comcast? Your set-top children are returning home next week.

The elgato HDHomeRun dual tuner system should stand in prefectly at a cost of $199.00 this little box will allow me to shedule recordings that I can watch either on my Macs or my  Plasma TVs all in the Clear QAM format. Clear QAM allows me to access HD channels and regular programming that Comcast sends thru the pipes at a standard access charge.

By running this system off a Mac Mini set-up in my studio I can convert my recorded shows and save them to my iTunes server in the same box. If I purchase an additional Apple TV box and put it in the bedroom I can cover the entire house with stored recorded content. The box also comes with 2 licensed copies of EyeTV 3 which I can install a copy on my desktop machine or the laptop if I feel compelled to watch live TV at anytime. Comcast I’m you’ve been ripping me off for years with your excessive cost and poor service so You get the boot on the premium channels and DVR. Much more can be had for much less.

-holla

UPDATED: This device will not help me since Comcast has pretty much locked down the Clear QAM spectrum altogether.