Wordpress for iphone
Wordpress released their native blogging app for the iPhone today and this is my first post with it. So far I like it a lot and using the iPhone soft keyboard to write a longer post is not a problem at all
This just makes the iPhone even more of a handheld computer and not really a phone.
No iPhone 3G for me, yet
So tempted I was to rush out and get the new iPhone 3G. Faster speed, GPS, and…and…well, that’s about it. Than I started hearing the poor battery life reports and I started to think. My original iPhone is great and I love it. With the new 2.0 software I get most of the benefits of the new phone as well. Having GPS would be fun, but the older triangulation technology has actually been improved and works pretty well. Plus, with no real turn by turn directions, the GPS is not really living up to it’s full potential. Disappointing. 3G speed would be cool for sure, but at what cost? 3G sucks battery. It’s really no different for any other 3G phone so the iPhone 3G isn’t really far off, but fast speed does you no good if you’re out of battery. Plus the AT&T plans went up in price monthly.
I’m waiting. For a better battery and 32Gig. You know 32Gig is not far off with the way solid state memory is going these days and certainly there will be a better, more power effecient 3G chipset comming at some point. With a full 32Gig, I could fit my entire iTunes library on the iPhone. Truly at this point it will have taken the full place of my iPod. 16 Gig is better, but still not really there yet. Delayed gratification is supposed to be good for you and for the frist time in awhile I will practice it. I have other priorities right now anyway other than upgrading my phone. I do want an Apple TV though…
Campaign 2008, Control, and New Media
Hillary Clinton is bringing daughter Chelsea out on the campaign trail in Iowa but won’t let her speak to the press. Predictably and quickly, this has lead to the absurd as she turned down an interview request from a 9 year old Scholastic News reporter.
Thus is the politics of control. In a hot presidential race, one statement, one moment can change fortunes forever. Just ask Howard Dean. The Clintons have always sought to protect and shield Chelsea from the press and I understand and empathize with that but if you don’t want to get shot, don’t go near the battlefield. If they are going to bring Chelsea along and make her part of the campaign in that way, than she is in the game, like it or not.
I don’t like the overly controlled and manufactured politics we have today. It’s almost impossible to get any kind of real read on a candidate. I’d love to hear from Chelsea and I’m sure other young people would too. She’s a smart girl for goodness sakes, let her speak. People are so afraid of making a mistake and the press is too quick to judge.
I has been said this is the YouTube campaign, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this is a new media campaign. We have had some “YouTube debates” but that’s just window dressing on a campaign that is still controlled by and manufactured for the old dog media. If anything, new media has intensified the control because of the way bad news can spread like wildfire across the Internet. We will not have a new media election until candidates are allowed and are courageous enough to let down their hair and let us see their real selves. Until control is broken down. Not until blogs, audio and video podcasts are treated as equals in the process and not a side show like the YouTube debates were. We’re getting closer every year and I hope someday we are able to break through and have a true new media election.
You can never be to thin
Take a look at this very thin phone. Pretty neat but at some point these phones will be so thin, it will be too easy to snap them right in half.
Steal Music On Your Mobile Phone
Here is something very cool, but is this legal? Oh, yea, we’re not sharing commercial music on these things, right?
A scientific step forward towards flexible paper
Very cool stuff. Can you imagine an electronic newspaper that you can roll up and carry around like a traditional paper? Maybe like the newspapers in Harry Potter. Something to keep our eye on.
MobileRead Networks - A scientific step foward towards flexible paper
Now we’re talking
Here’s the phone I want to get, but the Cingular version as I am locked into them right now. Skype is really screwing with the cell companies now. I love it. Take your cell minuets and shove ‘em!
Ultra-Mobile PC - It’s Official
Here is the official Microsoft page for this. For me, still too large. They need to get it down to a Nokia 770 size and then we’ll talk. For most mobile applications, I think a nice Windows Mobile device with cell phone buit in is better.
Engadget on Origami
Engadget has a lot more on Origami including lots of pics. I’m still not too impressed. Large and clunky looking. I would love to see what Apple would do this with concept. Nokia still has a shot with the 770 but they had better get their butts in gear and get some software going.
Way Coolness
Check it out, pac-man on an iPod Nano. Now thats cool.