Wednesday, December 26, 2007
How I did at predicting 2007
I blogged on Jan 3, 2007 that 2007 would be the year of on-line video learning. More accurately -- in hindsight -- it was the year of on-line video everything. Not a day goes by when I don't watch some video on line. Some of the best experiences of 2007 -- of any kind, on line or off -- have been the TED videos. This one stands out; if you appreciate technology or collaboration it'll be a highlight of your year too.
[Unfortunately, the TED videos seem to make all three of the browsers on my MacBook -- Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer -- crash. But it's a small price to pay because every TED video I've watched has been worth restarting my browser . . . and more!]
Skeptical readers might say that I'm a geek, therefore not representative of the general public on matters of technology adoption. Actually, I'm not. I'm "early majority" not "bleeding edge" so when I'm doing something regularly, you can be fairly sure it is real.
I actually do think 2007 was the knee in the curve for on-line video. So I got it half right. Or less -- we should subtract a few points because anybody with eyes could have seen it coming in 1/07.
[Unfortunately, the TED videos seem to make all three of the browsers on my MacBook -- Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer -- crash. But it's a small price to pay because every TED video I've watched has been worth restarting my browser . . . and more!]
Skeptical readers might say that I'm a geek, therefore not representative of the general public on matters of technology adoption. Actually, I'm not. I'm "early majority" not "bleeding edge" so when I'm doing something regularly, you can be fairly sure it is real.
I actually do think 2007 was the knee in the curve for on-line video. So I got it half right. Or less -- we should subtract a few points because anybody with eyes could have seen it coming in 1/07.
Comments:
David - that's very odd - your browsers crashing that is. My wife has an iMac and can view the TED videos on it in both Safari and Firefox. I embed them on my site all the time and have a number of Mac users who read my site and as far as I know they aren't having this problem either. Something else you have installed must be interfering with your browsers
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