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5D MKII

For those of you wondering about the 5D, my buddy Leo just informed me of some rumored info for the Canon 5D MKII that is expected soon.

Check it out here: http://gizmodo.com/367086/canon-5d-mark-ii-rumored-specs-and-details

I am Addicted.

to information. Content is the name of the game now. Web 2.0. is all about user driven content. Blogs, news, imagery, videos, etc. at your fingertips that becomes viral. People can share their voice, gain readership, and even make large amounts of money. (I heard boingboing.net makes 6 figures a year) It's even becoming more of bigger venue for advertising. Companies are now creating viral content specifically for the 2.0 world. Content that people get behind and pass on to their friends.

A few weeks ago I posted on the RSS reader called Net News Wire, which now that I look back at was pretty much geek speak to most of you. I posted right when I discovered the application, but now that I've had a few weeks to use it and get completely sucked in, I am reposting on it. I can't get enough of it, and it makes it ridiculously easy to obtain current posts and information. You can subscribe to your favorite blogs, news sites, and anything that has an RSS feed.

Below is a screenshot of NetNewsWire:

On the left you can organize the subscriptions and blogs. The top middle shows you the titles of the post, and in bold are the posts that are unread. When you click on one, the post shows up in the bottom preview panel. You can click on the post link if you want to read more, and it takes you to the actual web page right within the application, then puts a tab with a thumbnail on the right column if you want to go back to it. You can also sign up for NetNewsGator which allows you to sync all your subscriptions between computers.

The whole thing is fantastic, and I am addicted. It makes reading all your favorite blogs easy as pie!

Download it here.

Net News Wire- Are you RSS Savy?

My boy George Huff over at Eleven 3 turned me on to this little app called Net News Wire. If you are reading this blog, you're at your first step of learning about RSS feeds. Or, you're web 2.0 savvy and already know how to use them.

Basically you can have all your favorite blog content feed straight to your browser, or in the Net News Wire case, it's a separate application specifically for RSS feeds. You can stay up to date with feeds coming in, usually the instant someone makes a new post. Learn more about RSS here.

Net News Wire is going to be my new reader instead of Safari's native reader. Check it out!

Canon's Iris Watermarking

Pumped through the pipe of APE, I saw this article this morning. Canon just filed a patent on a new copyright protection system that watermarks your images by appending an image of your eye's iris in the metadata of an image.

Pretty nutty. Read more about it here on Photography Bay.

Twittered a job.

The digital world is here. Got a last minute Twitter the other day from a friend in Brazil to a quick small gig for Nike. Two days later I find myself in Portland ready to go.

It's amazing how technology has developed.

Surface

This new technology is progressing. Microsoft Surface. It's pretty much a table sized computer with the touch screen technology that the iPhone already has. It's too bad Microsoft has no idea how to brand and make something practical. Check out the Microsoft Surface Website.

Now this is genious. A funny parody of the Microsoft branding of the Surface technology. Check out the 2 minute video, but make sure you watch the video stuff on the above link first.