by alec on December 24, 2007
Buckingham Palace has decided to create a YouTube channel. The Queen's Christmas Day message will be available after 3PM GMT on YouTube, to the world. In addition, archival footage dating back to Queen Alexandra is also available, including Elizabeth II's first televised Christmas message, and her coronation.
In her 1957 Christmas message she expresses the hope that the new medium of television will allow her to be closer and more familiar to her people in an age when the monarchy had become more and more distant. And here we are 50 years later, airing that now familiar Christmas message not just on television but on the internet. Who says the Monarchy can't adapt?
We'll be watching it via YouTube, as I suspect that the cable station here in Cape Cod won't be carrying it.
by alec on December 24, 2007
I think Henry Blodget is a clueless hypster. Seizing on Apple's good Mac numbers, he has pronounced the end of Microsoft and Windows. He writes:
Unlike the last go-round, when Apple got clobbered by the Wintel keiretsu, the macro personal computer trends now favor Apple, suggesting that Macs are going to continue to gain share at the expense of Dell, HP, Microsoft, and others.
What has changed? The dominance of Windows and Office have waned. The most important personal computer application by far these days is the Internet, and there's no advantage to having Microsoft Windows when you use the Internet. The other most popular personal computer apps, web-based email and instant messaging, as well as the advent of Google Apps and other web-based Office clones, there's also a lot less reason than there used to be to use the PC platform that most applications are developed for.
In my opinion, these are baseless, factually-starved ravings from the same analyst who drove the dot-com bubble while at Merrill Lynch, was later bought out by Merrill after the collapse of the same bubble, charged with securities fraud by the SEC, and subsequently settled without admitting wrongdoing after agreeing to a ban from the securities industry for life.
