Archive for January, 2010
By Joe Klein
It’s that time again! January brings with it our favorite trade shows of the year! And, wouldn’t you know it, they’re all in one of our favorite places, just a mere ninety miles north of our “home base!”
Las Vegas is most definitely the place to be this month, and, as we are every year, we’re geared up to go! This week we’ll be attend
ing the 2010 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW and checking out the latest gadgets and toys at one of the world’s largest trade shows.
We’ll also be checking out the annual “adult companion” to the CES, the ADULT ENTERTAINMENT EXPO! The event, staged each year by the AVN MEDIA NETWORK is always a total riot, with nearly every major adult entertainment celebrity and luminary in attendance. The booths on the main show floor, open to all “fans” of the genre, is filled to the brim with “eye candy” in every direction. The vendor booths in the exhibit area below the main level, open to the trade and press only, display some of the craziest—and kinkiest—toys around!
Every year the AVN ADULT VIDEO AWARDS are handed out on the last night of the event, honoring the best performances and productions in many categories of adult entertainment. While other commitments and parties prevented us from attending last year’s award ceremony, we are hoping to attend at least part of the awards show this year, which has changed venues from the Mandalay Bay to The Pearl nightclub at The Palms Hotel.
It’s going to be a few days jam packed with gizmos and gadgets of all kinds, and our schedule is already packed to the gills with endless things to do and see. Besides trying to take in the acres of exhibits at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Sands/Venetian Expo Center, we have a pretty large list of parties and press events. If past experience is any guide, we’ll be lucky to get to even half of the events on the list. But that’s just what convention week in Vegas is all about.
So, we’re off and running! As I have done for the past couple of years, I’ll be meeting up with our old pal MICHAEL BUTLER, who is the online host of the music channel at MEVIO.COM as well as hosting his own online podcast and live streaming shows, THE ROCK AND ROLL GEEK SHOW and GOOD CLEAN FUN. Michael will be doing his own video reports for MEVIO all day Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I’ve agreed to help out with camera and sound duties and even help with a bit of production assistance. So it looks like yours truly, NEW MEDIA JOE, will definitely be on the go!
We’ll try and blast out a few tweets whenever we get a chance. Check out our TWITTER FEED for those!
We will probably be so busy attending the show, press events and parties that we may not be able to blog or tweet “live” during the show. (Hotel internet connections and access also play a major role in all of this.) So, if we don’t post updates during the week, rest assured that there will be our own CES coverage and updates to follow later!
In the meantime, no need to wait for our coverage. There’s plenty of great ongoing, up to the minute and LIVE coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show to be found online! Below are links to some cool live new media coverage of CES 2010.
REVISION 3 CES COVERAGE AND VIDEOS
GEEK NEWS CENTRAL CES COVERAGE
SIN CITY get ready, because here we come! See you in LAS VEGAS!
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By Joe Klein
It’s a new year, and a new decade! But what a decade the first one of the new century has been. It’s been a turbulent ten years of ups, downs and “up-agains!”
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a whole decade since Y2K came in without incident, followed by a burst of the tech bubble. But tech’s dominance of our landscape continued to grow despite the decline of tech stocks. The internet was now fully embedded by the turn of the century, and record numbers were going online to keep up with all things going on around them. The internet joined cable and satellite television in bringing the world into our homes and desktops, giving us an around-the-clock front row seat to all the good and evil the world has to offer.
Technology and terrorism became available 24 hours a day and the information floodgates were thrust wide open. By the middle of the decade, the dam burst, and an endless flow of new media content began streaming out into cyberspace.
Then, social networks sprang forth and, suddenly, everyone was sharing everything with everyone else. BLOGS, FLICKR, YOUTUBE, MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER and FRIENDFEED turned virtually anyone into a multi-media content creator and offered up the chance to become a new media maven! But, the use of social networks began spiraling out of control as countless millions of social media “addicts” started “tweeting” their every move and every thought and following those of others.
The last few years of the decade unleashed the torrent of content even further, as streaming video sites and smart-phones put all the information and content, even live content, into the palms of our hands everywhere we went. Just over the last year, the numbers of those blogging, tweeting and posting to Facebook “walls” has grown exponentially. The internet has gone “real-time,” and, now, GOOGLE itself is being considered a traditional “mainstream” source of information.
Over the last couple of years, we’ve experienced yet another economic “bubble burst” that resulted from a period of unbridled growth and optimism a few years back that may have been just a bit short-sighted. But, the new decade has dawned with more available technology, information and media content than we could ever have dreamed about just a couple decades ago!
The big question now is, “Where do we go from here?” It’s hard to say. With more to consume and communicate than ever, are we now approaching an information overload that could result in a social media meltdown?
Perhaps the Mayans knew something we don’t. Will it all come tumbling down at the end of 2012?
Whatever happens, it’s bound to be interesting. The coming year offers hope and the promise of a return to prosperity once again. There’s never been a more exciting time to STAY TUNED!
THE MAYAN CALENDAR 2012
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