My 2nd Breakfast Blogging Thursday @ Website

Ian Stock pro­vided the dough­nuts.  Bless him.

Jack Lalanne died today, may he rest in peace. I’m sad yet glad that he made it as long as he did. 95 thank you very much!  He’s been an exer­cise inspi­ra­tion my whole life.

On my way to the office today, I was think­ing about what to blog and couldn’t stop think­ing about amaz­ing and unique Next Space.  What a bless­ing. The place (to put it at the barest def­i­n­i­tion) is a shared office space and start-up  busi­ness incu­ba­tor.  Right now, we’re cel­e­brat­ing the first year of exis­tence.  The space is both a mate­r­ial and vir­tual com­mu­nity.   We have a whole on-line com­mu­nity ask­ing ques­tions, answer­ing, request­ing advice, look­ing for job offers…

The first per­son I showed around, I can’t remem­ber who, noticed all the media busi­nesses and asked me if weren’t they our, Awake Media’s, com­pe­ti­tion.  I replied that we were actu­ally not com­pet­ing but col­lab­o­rat­ing. The par­a­digm is shift­ing, as it must, glob­ally away from the cap­i­tal­is­tic model to a more je ne sais pas, dare I say, type of social­ism that allows for a human rights (mean­ing basic rights for all peo­ple, access to food, edu­ca­tion, shel­ter, med­ical care) and com­pe­ti­tion.  Com­pe­ti­tion is not all bad.  It helps keep inspir­ing to be bet­ter.  That reminds me of Jack.

It is true. Here at Next Space, there are a lot of media com­pa­nies.  The beauty of media is its large­ness in scope and sub­se­quently required skills. Once the project is large or com­pli­cated, one per­son can­not do it all. And, it is impos­si­ble to keep up with the newest tech­nol­ogy in the all the dif­fer­ent types of media (such as video codex, CSM pro­gram­ming, (to joomla or dru­pal that is the ques­tion), flash not work­ing on Vista 64, etc… The tech­nol­ogy is evolv­ing faster and faster and you are either on the bus of off.  Be aware though, if you get off the bus, that is speed­ing down­hill, it’s really hard to get back on.  Reminds me of the Cal­i­for­nia real estate market.

Time for me to sign off.  I have to get ready for my sec­tions, Video Games as Visual Cul­ture. Today we are dis­cussing the Gam­ing Industry.

Tagged as: Awake Media, BBT, Ian Stock, Jack Lalanne, Next Space