“What’s going on with that?”
Yes, leave it to me to phrase a question so eloquently.
Sean Cummings Pub moves, cause for a party
Call it a wake. Call it a party. Call it clever.
Sean Cummings led some faithful friends and customers down N May Avenue in Oklahoma City today. He led them on a short parade from its former location to its new home, right next to his wife Cathy’s restaurant, Vito’s Ristorante.
Why simply close and reopen/resurface down the street? Why not reward your friends and faithful with a party, an event, a good time, something for all to remember?
Looked like fun. Looked like a lot of pennies.
I shot this with a Sony HVR A1U and was very disappointed with the results. Had the auto focus on, which is sometimes a good idea with this camera, but not today. Also, the wind sock was missing when I picked up the camera over the weekend. You’ll notice the wind noise since this was mostly shot outdoors.
Working with the Canon 7D will spoil you.
Twitter, Pandora built-in Ford cars?
This seems like a good idea, and one that will likely develop into a mainstream feature for vehicles: more personal tech.
From the USA Today:
•OpenBeak. Bringing in Twitter, which lets users send short messages to the masses, seemed a natural. OpenBeak, formerly called TwitterBerry, is an app that makes it easy to use Twitter’s most popular functions from mobile devices.
•Pandora. This Internet radio service boasts 40 million users worldwide. It lets users custom-tailor music in song lists that can be paused or skipped through.
•Stitcher. A personalized, on-demand radio system. Users can pick radio programs they want to hear, and listen on their own schedules.
Rolling wifi for news crews
How cool would this be? NewsOK or any news outlet could have news vehicles with built in wifi. We could file video or go live from anywhere our car is. Here’s more from Lost Remote.com.
From Lost Remote, via NY Times:
“Automakers will also be pushing Internet access for the car. With Chrysler and General Motors already offering options that turn minivans and S.U.V.’s into rolling Wi-Fi hotspots, the technology is no longer a novelty. Ford will add its name to the roster by touting a new Sync wireless broadband modem. The modem will plug into the USB port of Sync-equipped cars to create a high-speed Internet connection that can be shared by passengers.”
Skype rules
After a studio tour from our friends at a local Chevy dealership, we taped this weekend’s NewsOK TV segment and then another Skype interview with Rick Smith.
Smith is with the National Weather Service, in the Norman Forecast office. David Jones set up our video gear in Norman. I interviewed Smith from our OPUBCO Studios in north Oklahoma City. We’ve been testing various methods of Internet video streaming for months. Yesterday we taped our first talkback with the NWS and followed up today with an update on the colder air that will invade the state.
I hate winter. Just wanted that on the record.
Smith does a great job, very knowledgeable (of course) about his job and Oklahoma’s weather. I’m looking forward to the relationship between OPUBCO and the National Weather Service. Great to go straight to the source and have them tell us what’s going on and what they expect.
And Skype makes it easy. I think once we upgrade our streaming machine in the studio, we’ll have a better signal. And we’re already looking at the 720p stream.
Bono’s Ten for the Next Ten
From the NY Times is Bono’s latest column. He is a wordy Irishman.
IF we have overindulged in anything these past several days, it is neither holiday ham nor American football; it is Top 10 lists. We have been stuffed full of them. Even in these self-restrained pages, it has been impossible to avoid the end-of-the-decade accountings of the 10 best such-and-suches and the 10 worst fill-in-the-blanks.
And so, in the spirit of rock star excess, I offer yet another.
The main difference, if it matters, is that this list looks forward, not backward. So here, then, are 10 ideas that might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil. Some are trivial, some fundamental. They have little in common with one another except that I am seized by each, and moved by its potential to change our world.
Read the full article here.
