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Happy May 26th everyone!

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Let’s Blow This Popsicle Stand

…and head to the Caribbean!

That’s right, after talking about it forever, Debra and I are finally going to go and spend some time on a boat. Some overnight time on a boat. A big boat.

We’re going to do just a quick little 5-day cruise at the end of June in the “Western” Caribbean (so named by the cruise industry, no doubt) leaving from Ft. Lauderdale and making stops at Key West and Grand Cayman on the Empress of the Seas. I’ve not spent any time in the Caribbean so I’m looking forward to. Of course not as much as I am looking forward to gorging on all things edible. And free room service!

(Please don’t point out we’ve paid for it with the price of the cruise ticket—I’m living the dream!)

Anyway, the cruise map:

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The Future of Media?

One of the many daily feeds I read had an interested piece about an 8-minute video put together by the Museum of Media History. I just finished watching it for a second time and see it as undeniably plausible. It’s also pretty interesting in that it is written as a future history of media from the vantage of 2014 (after the “news wars of 2010″)…

EPIC (the evolving personal information onstruct) is the eventual amalgamation of such indsutry giants as Amazon.com, Google, Blogger.com and Friendster, and represents a guess about how we may be consuming media in 8-10 years.

Take a look. I’m curious what you think. (My favorite line: “In 2014, The New York Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elite and elderly.”)

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