Hi,

I am still around, haven’t vanished off the face of the earth.

I have been very busy with my other websites and that is taking up a fair bit of my online time at the moment.

I will be back to update this page soon, dont fear!

I have since it began operations a couple of years ago (eons in internet time) used the Mevio site Podsafe Music Network.

It allows me access to a huge library of new musical talent quickly and easily but every time I log on I get either sad or angry.

Why such emotion? Well what I see is one huge lost opportunity that does a disservice to the artists, podcasters and end users that visit the site.

It fails to deliver on so many levels it shouldnt even exist but just like Microsoft a few years back, there simply was nothing to better it, so it stayed at the top of the pile.

Well that surely doesnt cut it any longer does it?

Am I the only one that sees huge opportunity for the artists to connect with new audiences that will then purchase their music? Podcasters to feature and connect with bands and their communities as well as ways to obtain their tracks with even greater ease and finally end users to be able to interact with the music and the podcasters playing it in new and exiting ways?

This could all be done with only a little re-programming but it could also be done in a way that actually generates several good quality sustainable income streams for the site.

I am surely not the only one that wants to see this site continue and in fact prosper in the world of new media that Mevio wants to play a big part in?

This site, unloved and maybe unwanted by Mevio is the one part of the company that could be profitable, popular and stand the test of time. Wake up Mevio, act to save this site, it could be the one thing that saves you once the venture capital dries up.

Podshow was centre stage at the dawn of the new media revolution, now where is it in relation to the Revision 3’s of the world?

WAKE UP MEVIO - Before its too late!!!!

At some point we need to drop the old technology and move on up with the new otherwise we would all still be getting pulled by horses and feinting at speeds above 10mph. Its the only sensible thing to do.

With that in mind its about time we changed one bit of kit that has been around for a long time and is in desperate need of upgrading.

The infamous aircraft black box, Cockpit Voice Recorder or Flight Data Recorder.

This device holds the key to solving many in-flight problems, not just the fatal ones as the unit records systems and voice information during the flight.

How many people realise however that the unit often doesnt record the full flight and that recordings vary in terms of usefulness due to the amount of sensors sampled?

With the advent of flash memory its about time we had a basic upgrade to allow full flight voice recording, maybe even longer and when possible more full instrument recording.

As systems become digital with the ability to report their settings over a fast internatl network and storage becomes every cheaper, why would you not want to record as much as possible?

Take for instance the Quantas baggage hold explosion the other week. There is no record of the explosion on the voice recorder because it only records around 30 minutes of audio on a loop. So all they got was the plane landing in Manila, not a lot of use! a $40 USB recorder could record for 48 hours or more.

Time, me things, to move on!

 

I think the ad team at Boots (a drug store in the UK) have made most unpalatable offer of the year via a TV ad.

 

Two for the price of one….on home pregnancy kits. (Click Here)

And home pregnancy kits that tell you 6 weeks earlier than normal if your up the duff.

So go for it!, Shag your brains out this summer because you can always have an early abortion!

That seems to be the message I get from that ad.

Maybe you could have thought that one through a little more?

I mean two for one on home pregnancy kits, not a good move no matter how you try and sell it.

Well done Boots

Next week Buy haemorrhoid cream and get KY jelly free LOL

P.S. I know that this ad is probably directed towards those trying to have a kid who are doing all they can to conceive. However it was presented in such a cold way without even a hint of that purpose that it was easy to draw other conclusions without a lot of time to think about it, so hence gave out the wrong message in my opinion.

Tata of India has begun finalising the details of their latest car, the Nano. What is so different about this car as opposed to any other is that it will cost a mere £1,250 ($2500) to buy.

Now this brings obvious opportunity to many developing countries and many opportunities to market in more affluent countries to second, third, fourth car owning families and to poorer families.

It also opens up many possibilites for lower cost rentals including Urban rental schemes like Zipcar or CityCarClub.

However, if a car like this is lower cost to own what issues does that bring with it?

More disposable? Do we buy, use and throw away like a pizza box? Would there in effect be more plastics, metals and chemicals wasted due to this disposability?

More dangerous? If we care less about the vehicle we drive, will we become careless in our driving skills, after all a few bumps later and we can just buy a new car.

Enviromental damage due to easier access to vehicles? The car is cheaper, easier to own by more people. Does this mean more cars on our roads, more gridlock, more people in more countries driving, this is after all an Indian product, think of the numbers in India and China alone. What enviromental damage is this going to cause in terms of production and fuel.

Will rapid expansion in car ownership be tempered by rising fuel costs due to greater demand?

So is this a good thing or a bad thing? Post your comments and let me know be interesting to see your views.