Tiger Woods Returns

The Masters
A venerable sporting event on CBS. Limited commercial time. Azaleas. Usually beautiful weather. Chirping birds. Green jackets. And this year, the return of Tiger Woods after the stint in sex rehab; with considerable stress on all sides, I am sure. He is playing well--within reach of the victory, but he has a long way to go to win. He has, however, proven to be rather unflappable, more understated than before, and seemingly able to deal with the pressure.

Watching while blogging of course.
















New York City is beautiful today. A cold breeze swept through and earlier week temperatures of 92 degrees dropped to 42 last night. Spring.

google again

upon opening one of my many gmail boxes (tho I only have one address it seems I have boxes and widgets and scrolls everywhere. well maybe not scrolls...) TODAY (back on point) the google boxes were surrounded by at least 3 or 4 test ads for Dish and DirecTV, which are companies on my resume and mentioned in various emails. I'm assuming I'm being targeted by Dish and DirecTV for a system given the frequency of use--not just of email addresses either--but and I admit to an "assumption" google "searches my email and the little crawlie things report back to the ad servers that I discuss Dish and DirectTV online and the servers serve me targeted ads..oh well, maybe I am making too much of this???

the power of google

A picture of Long Island City Queens.












I continue to be amazed at how Google/You Tube grows and expands. Google's GMail and Calendar functions read my email and categorize it (for example anything that mentions NYU--where I teach-- and is received by gmail seems to automatically end up in an NYU folder--which I set up)

Today I received a suggestion from Google to add an appointment I had scheduled for this upcoming Friday to my Google Calendar --which, by the way, I have never used.

Each day applications appear, and attempt to grab a share of usage. Others just continue to improve and morph into easy to use functions. I think back to my Palm Pilot 10 or 12 years ago--very cool for the time. It's too bad more American companies aren't like Google...or Apple or even the behemoth Microsoft....we would have had a stronger economy had we focused on this type of R and D.

2010

Technology and content continue to blossom and interact at faster and faster rates. Whole house DVR's; thousands of apps everywhere; widgets rising....fiber to the home as in FIOS--the analog to digital transition continues to accelerate...fb with 100mm plus monthly users...facebook is the ultimate "scrapbooking tool". I am currently involved in an online high school reunion solely because of FB. A class member digitized yearbook photos and challenged facebook members to both sign up other class members as FB members and as people signed on they were challenged to identify all 400 odd classmembers WITHOUT consulting their yearbook. A collaborative and collective process which has encouraged hundreds of comments--on individuals primarily...I have encouraged 3 people to sign up and they all are now on Facebook and members of the reunion class fan group. Whereas before a reunion would be A DAY and a TIME; this pre reunion (the actual one will be in August) can be help any time...kind of like what I imagine 2nd life to be like...tho I have never played it. You can enter and re-enter at your discretion; some will spend more time than others--but whatever happens it certainly represents the power of fb media and I will continue to track it here.