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Subject: [Leica] WAS: Selling gear NOW: Free shooters. :-(
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed Apr 9 21:39:51 2008

Its the future now,
its George Jetson City!

Meet the George I son!
His boy I phone - (never watches TV)
Daughter I pod - (likes her Podcasts)
"The Flip" - his wife = (make movies all day) edits them after dinner.

People are making movies and stills with their cell phones and send them off
to their friends instantaneously. Or the TV station or newspaper.
Or they just add it to their own blog.
Their "news" is other peoples Blogs.
I read last week the big papers have all been cutting way back. Not just the
small ones.
I read it on my http://my.nytimes.com/ page which I personalized.
On my Powerbook G4 12 inch.
I click on it and it says "Hi Mark" at the top of the page.
Or my http://news.google.com page which I personalized. My Yahoo Page has
been mainly forgotten.
Yahoo! 
Who would want to buy them?


I buy AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER or just read it in the Barnes and Noble over
expensive caf? mochas. Often adding flavor to the articles inside.

People all get their news on the internet now.
No one watches TV even. I don't own one.
Everyone's got their headphones on.
Listening to pod casts. Watching them even.

Less "stumps of mystery" I guess.
That's an Oregon thing.
Before everyone forgot about the fact that there used to be trees.

The newspapers are figuring out the internet and other modern wonders.
They are still getting the news out. But they have to get it out in a way
people want to receive it. And they do.
I think for every one person who reads a paper version
100,000 read the pixel version.
Guilty! I'm in that big group!

I print stories from the news feeds mainly the NYTimes I get my info from.
Read them on the Subway.
People stare at me because I'm the only one without headphones.

To me my new feeds, my personalized pages are integrated into my surfing the
internet.
I'm looking for things. Figuring out things. Wikirabiner
Looks of time I google image search things and gaze at the contact sheets.
Print them  And put them under my pillow for the night.
Just kidding.

1984 was 24 years ago.
2001 was 7 years ago.

Its the future already. See those monkeys! They're being beamed up!
I hope their molecules are in order!




Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com




In reply to: Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] WAS: Selling gear NOW: Free shooters. :-()