I thought it important to blog during a time that many are celebrating the media many thought would be a passing fade.  Well, ten years later and here we are… blogging away.  What a wonderful way to communicate our ideas, keep in touch with family and friends, or promote our entrepreneurial endeavors.  Hopefully you will see more from Finehour Productions in the future.  We definitely have a passion for family, technology, media, and more.  We definitely will use our blog to communicate our thoughts, opinions, and knowledge.

Here is a great site that you can upload, read, and rate tutorials of all kinds. Photoshop, CSS, Ajax, After Effects, and so on. I have not had too much time to look into everything but you might find one or two things that could help or teach you a thing or two. It is a fun addition to the design community that’s just getting its foot in the door, so give it a look and get your groove on if you know what i am sayin.  Pixelgroove

Reflecting on blogging and our need for regular posts this week, I am curious to see what will come of this new media revolution of blogs and wikis and podcasts. I am caught (as I believe many others in their late twenties, early forties) in the middle of the generational divide between traditional media and the web variety. I enjoy the tangiblity of books, magazines, newpapers, the evening news and sports center. It feels very comfortable and familiar. However, I get great satisfaction from being able to retrieve the box score and post game summary of a Utah Jazz game I miss or a transcript of the President’s state of the union address minutes after it ends on his website. I can additionally join the different interest communities following these events and view their reactions and opinions. There is a completely different dimension to these new media outlets that is so compelling.

Which will win out? Truthfully, neither. I do not believe we have seen the future yet. It is still developing. There is still a lot of distust on both sides of the debate as to the accuracy of the information being reported. I have plenty of experiences where I have first hand knowledge of a particular event only to see it completely misreported in the local newpaper or evening news cast. On the other hand I have fundamental doubts that an encyclopedia can be managed by a community anyone can join and remain an accurate source of information (wikipedia). Where will we end up? I do not know exactly, but typically, it is somewhere in the middle. So, I will continue to read the newspaper from the Starbucks down the street and watch sport center and CNBC. I will also continue to blog on Notebook, listen to Podtech podcasts on my Nano, and use wikis to help me research new Web 2.0 tools. And I’ll be prepared for whatever the revolution brings.