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[ Sunday, June 22, 2008 13:04 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Supplement

Section:

Briefs

Summary:

“The way to cash in on a gold rush is to supply the miners with what they want and need and let them take the risks” --- the merchants of Sacramento, the apple growers of Oregon, the suppliers of St. Louis, and the bankers of New York.

A recent streamed video interview at Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communication of Google’s Eric Schmidt by media writer Ken Auletta representing the New Yorker is an example of how the New Media is viewing the business model opportunity offered by video on the Internet. 

Main:

Even the vast resources of risk capital, resources and talent available to Google are being put to the ultimate tests of business success---- can it be build and can the costs be covered and the risk return a reasonable profit within a reasonable time?

Meanwhile, the people a Google say yes, many students at Syracuse say probably, and the New Yorker seems to indicate they will explore the question at the next conference they sponsor.

Consider the possibilities of You Tube and streamed video :

Music: low cost of entry of for MTV-like video promoting events, music genres, groups, labels, CDs and tracks.

Sports: non professionial events like club sports.

News: real time reality news and weather.

Entertainment: coverage of small local events.

Education:  Demonstrations on How To--- Fix a Flat.  What the geology of the Bluffs at Lake Raquette in the Adirondacks looks like.

Class field work projects like wetland restoration, stream flow, and building a site specific realtime weather recording station.

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[ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Wacko Wednesday

Section:

Markets

Summary:

Tom Friedman continues his nytimes column on his view of the future of technology, energy, and the role of 700 million Indians in the coming Brave New Green World of carbon trading derivatives.

Currently, some very smart executives and Wall Street players are paying the heavy price of not knowing the fundamental value of “ Junk “ home mortgage backed financial instruments. Derivatives if you will.  General Motors and Bear Stearns are the latest in the lineup.  More accounting standards enforces write offs against current profits are anticipated. The future of carbon trading is murky and shares a built in flaw with other “derived” finance instrument.  That would be a lack of accepted standards and mechanisms for pricing, valuing, measuring and enforcing accountability of carbon based credits and debits. 

One wag has proposed color coding electrons so that electricity meters in say, the elevators of NYC high rises could sort out the source of the power used.  Now, there is an opportunity for some smart E2K programmers.

Dot Earth blogger, at the nytimes weighs in with more Wednesday Wackiness. A Foster City California project is setting sail to play Captain Pirate of a scheme to capture the rights to carbon trapping plankton on the high seas.  Some folks must be spend far to much time watching reruns of Johnnie Deept movies.

Main:

Meanwhile:

The mood of the Heartland was measured by yesterday’s election results:

* Utah rejected a proposal to provide state wide vouches to public school students.

* Oregon rejected a proposal to add to the state tax on cigarettes to provide medical care to poor kids not covered by Medicaid.

* In New York, the State Legislature and the Monroe Count Legislature remains Red.

* A town in the western upstate NY county of Wyoming voted against a proposed large commercial turbine based Big Wind Farm project in their neighborhood.  The proposal is thought to be based downwind in Massachusetts.

In addition:

* Injured race horses and other ill animals are humanly and regularly “put down.” Yet, it appears that is not technically possible according to the sources for those legal reporters covering death penalty issues before the courts.

* Important legal and political issues in Pakistan continue to be reported without context as though events in the street are being played out in some small town in Louisiana.

* The temperature today in Rochester is 10 degrees below “normal” and there is light snow on some home roofs that are on rises in the southern part of Brighton, Monroe County, NY

* The local paper has been recognized by an independent trade group is accessing over 80% of its potential market within its service area. That is a # 1 ranking. Among those serviced are a large and growing number of foreign born, young professional east Indians, Asians and Europeans. The University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital and affiliated groups, Xerox, Eastman, and Bauch and Lomb are continuing talent magnets.

* Speaking of snow, USA Today reports that the National Park Service is considering closing the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park for the winter.  A 8,550 ft. pass west of Cody, Wyoming is used by outfitters for really hardy and fit high mountain skiers, trekkers, and snowshoers.

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