Robert Scoble At Library of Congress & Seagate

Above is an interview (recorded on a phone) that Robert Scoble did with Matt Raymond who does a blog on The Library of Congress website. Matt talks about some of the projects that The LOC are working on and the purpose of his blog which is letting people know what's going on at The LOC. (click on to the next 2 clips to see LOC's photo collection and stereograph collection. What's a stereograph you ask? From the LOC site:Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope). 

I've been checking on Scoble's blog for a while now but I've never checked out his video interviews before, but as he ran a post about a bunch of new hard drives released by Seagate I thought I'd check the vid out:

I've been thinking about getting a hard drive for a while now and some of the portable ones sound good. I've got all my music backed up on to a dozen DVD's!

The guy he's speaking to has been working for Seagate for 24 years- back then a 300 MB drive was the size of a washing machine and cost US$12,000!!

Helene Blowers

It's been a bit over a year since Helene Blowers spoke at The SLNSW and I'm dissapointed I missed her talk but thanks to the net I can keep up with presentations she does give- a recent post of 67 slides on her Blog doesn't quite put me in the audience but it's worth a look all the same.
I can't say for sure that I'm on the right side of The Digital Divide, but I'm enjoying getting involved all the same!
Check out the slides, they are quite uplifting!

Google

Google has just turned 10yrs, I read an article in The Good Weekend about how it grew so quickly and permeates our lives. What will Google achieve in another 10 years?

99% of Google's income comes from advertising.

Does Google have any other choice but to continue growing?Anything but will see it get left behind.

What other areas will Google move into?

Google is offering $3o million to the first company to send a robot to the moon, land and transmit video and images back to Earth. To find out why go here, it's to do with saving the planet or something. Whateva.

Above is how the page looked way back when.

This is Google's Corporate Philosophy which seems to come up because it is so huge, particular it's point of making money without being evil- those who question Google's level of evilness say that Google has more information about "us" than governments do.