rudymentary

"One of my goals in building Metromix was to move the newspaper away from its inefficient way of putting listings in the paper which is Rudy gets a press release and opens up a file. And types in the information and next week he gets a press release, opens it up, deletes last week's, and types in another one. Awful. So we built a database for Metromix of events so that Rudy can now get the press release, type in a whole year's worth of events, and it's fielded. So every week we just do a dump from the database to create the nine zone listing for the newspaper which is localized. We've decreased the error rate in them from 12 per page to 3 per page, typos and so on. Because it's all databased, it's only typed once. Huge deal. Huge deal."

Owen Youngman
in The Chicagotribune.com: Creating a Newspaper for the New Economy (A)
by Professor Nina Ziv 

bata

Consumers have (also) been brainwashed to keep up with the latest technology fads; to “buy and throw away”. But where would these used products, for example the iPhone 4, go when newer models are available? According to a US study, millions of used personal computers now lie buried in landfills and will never be degraded. Is this sustainable? Definitely not. The Semakau landfill for example, will be filled up by 2045, going by the current rate of disposal.

Wang Jing-Yuan
in Challenge Online

新发现

Digital: Profit center for large foreign corporations.

- Why We Love Film

zeiss ikon contina iia

comex is happening now but no way am i going to be part of the stat in the 800,000 crowd. i don't like to be given too many choices anyway. it just spells more headaches for me during the decision-making process. i'm still quite interested in the panasonic camera. a colleage recommended i approach a John at unit 3.16 at funan for recs (when i saw her message, i thought why she's quoting scripture for cameras. rotflol).  

the internet's really a formidable place. i logged on to check out about the weekend fleas at OC and i ended up engrossed in so many new things. i really do live under a rock. i'm still not sure if there'll be my type of flea market happening at OC today and tomorrow. Truth-flea Speaking reveals that ffff is happening at home club today. i haven't been flea'g but it's not really been so long ago, by my standards. i should be stopping if i wanted this endeavour. but of course i was just talking thru my butt again. i haven't told you i've been accumulating more stuff in between... save me from myself!!     

besides discovering that the guy behind Hotel 1929 has opened yet another boutique hotel, i found a site selling vintage cameras. so i'm now wondering if i should set aside a coupla hundreds for one such, instead of a digital one. but i have no reservoir of knowledge about old-skool cameras. i should know a little bit even if it's experimental photography involved? i need to grow guts and visit the camera shops that surround my office area. i feel self-conscious about walking into such shops. like i'm a wannabe, caught up in this citizen photography trend. i'm honestly too lazy to do research. i know i could find out more on clubsnap. there're just too many things to house in my brain.    

links to the site:

med-uh-sin

facebook page

maybe i'll get the help of Uncle Tony, since the tenants in Peninsula seem to have been around forever. my SIL told me there's a 老字号 camera shop in the building. i'll borrow Uncle's guts to find out more :P and if i had guts and a thick skin, i'd love to join these bunch at little india today. can try the new LX5.

 

 luxirare camera bag

truth be told, it's really the tan camera case against the steel parts of the vintage zeiss ikon that appeals to me. i'm such a form over function person. it's like that for my cellphones. and it's like that for the bags i lust for.  i used to own this camera bag and i wore it to dealth w/o a camera ever seeing the inside ofit.  and i was always looking at camera bags on etsy. yesterday i saw a tan Dior with steel hardware at Zech. it's a tiny bag yet it's the only bag i'd consider buying.  about 1.8k, iirc. if i had spare cash, the siao char bor in me might just buy it. somebody save me from myself.      

Film: The Immortal Medium of the Masters.

- Why We Love Film 

(that's why i'm considering the digital, lah. but yes it sounds so horrid to be giving too much to big firms.)

the L word

nope. not that but:

leaders - boldly seeking out their market share with innovation and creativity.

learners - more cautious about change, but drawing on lessons from successes and failures of others.

laggards - cautious to the point of inaction in some instances, fearful of abandoning core competencies and products for a clearly undefined world.

Reference
“Television’s Convergence Conundrum,” Television Quarterly, Volume XXXVII, Number 1, Fall 2006.

above are "three distinct strategic styles" identified by Everette E. Dennis in a study about "finding the right digital strategy" for the television industry in the current converged media landscape (i still suck at paraphrasing!).

are you a spreader?

I'm a spreader. My clothes, clean and dirty, are spread around the bedroom, and my bathroom sink is cluttered.

Randy Pausch

via

The Last Lecture

image via Children of Vision

wonder what my ma'd say if i told her that's furniture.

i'm a spreader, like Pausch.

turn your closet inside-out

"Using plastic hangers and a steel bar from a standard closet, the Coat Check chair is designed to encourage people to hang their coats up properly. Bringing familiar closet elements out into the open to be seen on a daily basis brings the closet to life and serves as an artful reminder upon arrival."

via dcontinuum