According to their presidential campaign websites, tomorrow Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain will make stops in New Jersey.
Senator Obama’s rally will take place at the Izod Center (formerly Continental Airlines Arena) with doors opening at 10:00 AM while Senator McCain will make a lunch time stop at a firehouse in Hamilton Township, Mercer County.
Less then four hours ago we were being advised by old media that the morning commute would be a snowy mess in Central and North Jersey. Old media establishments broadcasted this news to us with great confidence. Schools and businesses lost sleep and changed their schedules based on this information.
Now the same media is saying never mind. How could they have been so wrong?
The design and engineering behind the Sanyo PLC-XL50, ultra short throw projector, being shown this week at CES 2008 has the potential to disrupt the classroom projector market. This model only needs 3 inches to produce a 50 inch screen.
Presently mounting a projector with a longthrow lens in the middle of a classroom ceiling is a costly event … and wheeling one on a cart to the middle of the classroom is at minimum a safety concern. The major cons I see right now for the PLC-XL50 are price, size and features.
I can’t wait to watch and see what markets Sanyo takes this product in the near future.
The OpenFrame phone Engadget reported on caught my attention. About time someone thought about adding data services to my house phone. But where’s the twittering feature?
Interesting article over at eMarketer about the not so off in the future deadline of Feb. 17, 2009 set by Congress to when all US broadcasters must cease analog broadcasting and switch to all-digital signals.
How long before the mass media picks up the meme during the nighty news and what will it mean to institutions like hospitals and schools. As they say on analog TV, “Stay tuned”!
We did out first School District WebCast yesterday. Using Ustream, we casted the Piscataway High School new addition dedication.
Even though the cast’s viewership numbers were low (7-10 viewers max) the most important point of doing the cast was to seed and implement a new 21st century communication medium for the school district.
Considering the idea was a just a thought last week, followed by a lot of late night gluing together of hardware and software in a hub room of the high school’s new addition, I am proud of what our small team delivered.
The next step is to further iterate, improve and expand the capabilities and look for the important district communication opportunities to use the new communication potential the district now has.
Today is D Day in Piscataway, New Jersey. That’s right it’s Piscataway High School Dedication Day.
My wife and I have invitations to the Tower Project Dedication at Rutgers tonight.
The Tower Project is a collaboration between Piscataway High School and Rutgers. My congratulations go out to Rob and the radio studio team of WVPH 90.3 FM for a job well done.
Hopefully I’ll have sometime during the dedication to record video for a video posting tomorrow.
Adobe has announced the latest version of it’s Adobe Flash Player 9, codename Moviestar. The biggest advances in the player will be H.264 video support, the video compression portion of the MPEG 4 standard which will improve video quality and is the same video format used in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD video players and the latest cable and satellite set-top boxes.
Also included in the update is (HE-AAC) High Efficiency Advanced Audio which some say will be the successor to MP3 with it’s higher quality audio and lower bit rate. The new player will also take advantage of hardware acceleration in most PCs’ graphics cards and is optimised for dual-core processors.
Ryan Stewart, employed by Adobe as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist says the Flash Player 9 Update 3 will support non-FLV files “Yes, with this update, Flash Player will also support MPEG-4 standard container files that contain video and audio data encoded using H.264/HE-AAC, including MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, 3gp, 3g2. … Welcome to the next generation of web video.”
If you want the details on what Adobe is doing with this beta of Flash Player 9, see this post from kaourantin.net an engineer at Adobe.com working on the Flash Player.
This updated Flash Player 9 release is now available as a beta from Adobe with the final release slated to be available later this year. The original launch of Flash 9 was in June 2006.
Below is the video I recorded while walking down Main Avenue in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. I recorded the video yesterday, Saturday, August 18th, 2007.
I also edited the Google map below to show the route we walked during our trip to Ocean Grove.
