Reiter’s Camera Phone Report: Camera phones set to be fastest-ever selling consumer product – I am still not a believer. Camera phones are selling well because, well, it is hard to buy a phone without a camera now. It is like saying that modems must be really popular because every PC has one. I just don’t see the usage of camera phones growing at the same rate as their ubiquity – i don’t know that many people who have active moblogs, i don’t get that many pictures (well, i don’t get ANY) sent to me. Maybe I am in the wrong demographic. But to claim somehow that cameraphones are a more impactful consumer product than DVD players is just wrong – look at all the dvd sales, dvd rentals, dvd economic activity, and contrast that with the supporting activity around cameraphones. I can buy DVDs at my grocery store checkout now. I can’t do anything with my cameraphone at any retail outlet.

SonyStyle USA - DSC-F828 – because it apparently has a built-in IR light permitting night photos.

I’m with Scott Loftesness – I’ve got enough storage capacity now, I don’t need all the energies of the storage industry going into capacity increases. What I need are higher performance disk subsystems – given the cheapness of disks and ram, i am surprised we aren’t seeing disks with even more cache, with smarter caches, and i am surprised we are not seeing consumer storage subsystems with data striped across multiple drives, thus getting multiple read heads working on our behalf. And I need more reliable storage – I want my data auto-replicated across multiple disks so I don’t have to worry about backup anymore. Where are the mass market products that address disk performance and data reliability?

Here are a bunch of links to get you up to speed on the history of the OSU and Michigan rivalry. The Ann Arbor paper has a nice complete game-by-game countdown tho with a Michigan bent of course. They also have a nice interview with Bo where he recollects some of the highlights. The OSU library hosts a nice comparison site with some statistical highlights. And then a couple of lists of the best games ever, per OSU Alumni vote and per the Cincinnati Enquirer. For my money, the 1973 tie and the ensuing vote to send OSU to the Rose Bowl, surprising most of the state of Michigan, was the most dramatic game and outcome. I remember leaving the Big House totally deflated, thinking that the Buckeyes would be sitting at home. And then on the drive home, as the news came across the radio, our car and all the cars around us exploding with cheers and honks as the decision was announced.

I’m looking for ways to broadcast high school sporting events over the internet – iHigh.com – The High School Internet Network seems to have a hosted solution with reasonable academic pricing. We could also cobble together a solution from Shoutcast but we don’t have a server location, we’d have to go to a hosted Shoutcast service like VBDigital. I haven’t seen a lot of examples of schools doing broadcasts except at the ihigh site, still looking for best practices and ideas.

It Doesn’t Compute to Give the BCS Nerds Such Power – looks like the Buckeyes may pass USC in the rankings this week. The math involved here is truly humorous. But hey it works for me.

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ABCSports.com - BCS Rankings Week 5 – for the moment. Repeat after me: Beat Michigan. Go Ole Miss, Beat LSU. And Go Huskies, beat the Cougars.

Nick Dentron from the NY Times – “I don’t want to see some V.C.’s invest idiot money in idiot people at idiot companies.”

Crap. That was pretty much our strategy.

Fascinating – Fake Blogs – thanks gary.

Interesting view on recent tech history: If they wanted to be the next Microsoft, Netscape should have looked more closely at how Bill Gates did it – he kept his mouth shut until it was too late for IBM to respond. and Which brings me to what I think is the biggest myth about Netscape, which is that they were a great engineering company. They were a crappy engineering company.

…to pull up the average level of serious engagement and discourse in the league – The Daily Northwestern - ‘Bottoms up, panties down’ shirts pulled by frat.

Like Tim, I’m also on the Flip bandwagon. And starting to get excited about the Sonics – winning back to back on the road is hard. My expectations were low low low after the Collison and Ray Allen injuries, but the Sonics are getting great play from everyone else on the team, particularly Flip. As was mentioned on Sports Radio this am, the absence of Ray may be a blessing in disguise, as everyone else is having to step up and learn how to do more.