Better, faster cheaper - another example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE9nbHSAHdA

Green screen/chroma keying. This one is loads of fun to watch.

Another one on the death of paper

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_coming_death_of_paper.php

This writer shares some of my observations and conclusions. While it's probably an overstatement to suggest paper will completely disappear, I do think our dependence upon it for transferring and storing information is going to quickly decrease.

Every time we do something digitally, instead of on paper, we do something good for the planet. I picked up a glossy brochure at a car dealership today, but then put it back down, realizing I could get the same information on the web, and in some small way decrease the demand for that specific brochure. Every time I get my daily news on my iPhone instead of buying the (paper) Post, I decrease the demand for newsprint. Southwest Air now lets you scan your boarding pass from the screen of your phone, instead of having to print it. It's all good.

I think we should all look for ways to use less paper.

Image: CNET

The iSlate(?) is going to be good for us

Multimedia:

It's no secret that magazine publishers have been having a hard couple of years. To me the upcoming iSlate, or whatever it's going to be called is going to revolutionize "magazine" publishing.

Once again, older print-based communications models are giving way to rich media.

I'm predicting this will create a surge for multimedia producers, which is excellent news for jobs in my industry. For people who work in multimedia, the challenge will be figuring out how to create and deliver multimedia quickly and inexpensively.

Just as there's been a cottage industry in e-learning training and development called rapid e-Learning, I think we can look forward to a parallel called something like rapid rich media.

I'm there. Maybe I should write the book... err, create the videos...

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