What is micro-media?
Twitter was the beginning. Bite sized information at a very rapid pace.
Twitter, Utterz, Ustream, and others are growing along side email and instant messaging
Micromedia initially came from small little apps that focused more on things like status updates. IM status messages. facebook mini feed, etc.
Many people are shifting from full on blogging to microblogging since it’s quicker and less intrusive. Quick bursts can compliment traditional blogging
Different micro-formats tend to have unique communities around them and in many cases they don’t always overlap with other media
Micromedia is really more about community and less about publishing and more about streams/flows/feeds
Torrents of tiny bits of information
No need to dedicate your full attention and mental power to comprehend – all about nuggets of information
Twitter is like a kitchen party or coffee shop chat
Twitter users are heavy social computing adopters – statistically
Dell and Comcast are monitoring twitter as a customer service tool. They will get involved in consersations with actual users in order to solve problems
Micromedia can be used in a business sense to track and follow projects, updates, etc. in order to stream information to the end user
Enterprise versions of twitter are coming for things like project teams
Twitter and micromedia are all about transparency and openness – email is behind the curtain while micro-media is out front
The current business arguement against things like twitter is the fear that people will waste time using it – just like the old days with email, phone, IM, etc.
Flow apps are the future of business – social productivity???
People are smart and they will find ways to become more productive with tools like twitter
A key to micro-media is the need to engage in the conversation. There is a current challenge with twitter-spam and being focused on pushing out messaging but not engaging in a real discussion/conversation
Thinking of businesses as brains/machines, micromedia is a way of connecting the neurons
Microblogging apps will move conversations out of email and other tools into the new flow apps.
We are still in the early adopter phase of micromedia
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I’ll rightfully admit that I spend a lot of time on the internet. The vast majority of my time surfing is pretty traditional via a computer and browser, but more and more I’ve found myself using non-standard devices like the iPod touch, as well as my Blackberry Curve. Surfing on the iPod is by far a superior experience, especially compared to the built in browser on the Blackberry. That was, up until I found out about 
A few weeks ago, 
If you own an HD Scientific Atlanta set-top box and utilize an HDMI or DVI connection to your TV, you’re most likely not getting the best performance possible, especially if you haven’t played with the advanced settings. Out of the box, the basic configuration looks for the highest possible resolution of your TV and then tries to up-sample everything to that. In many cases this leads to a less than perfect picture as the up-sample adds noise and distortion. In order to correct this, you’ll need to tell your HD box to show content at its native resolution and leverage all of the functionality of your TV.
The core problem and battery sucker appears to be Quicklook. If you do not disable it, the Quicklook server tends to grab all of your resources as it attempts to render out real time icon previews, thumbnail videos, and document previews. All of these are neat when they work, but thrown in a semi supported file (e.g.. DiVX) and the current implementation of Quicklook seems to choke a little. I really like Quicklook but I hope the folks in Cupertino can get some tweaks in under the hood before 10.5.1 hits the street.
I just noticed a very interesting feature of Leopard’s new Time Machine app. 
This afternoon I came across an amazing deal on a pair of Plantronics 590 bluetooth stereo headphones for $30. How could I resist, especially now that Leopard supports the A2DP bluetooth profile for stereo audio? 
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