WanderingSalsero

Are you a Google watcher?

Are you a Google watcher?  In the past have there been Google products that were released as private betas long before you finally heard about it?

If you are, you might be interested in this.

I just stumbled across (yeah...again!) info that Google has a new connection, already working, that somehow connects you with TV shows from several popular networks.  Yeah....you can actually watch the TV shows on your computer screen through your internet connection.

BTW........I seem to recall telling you that this is where it's headed right?

Anyway, I found a YouTube video that tells you (i.e. us) how to get a free invite.  I'm in a PC bang in Seoul (Itaewon) right now and I'm involved in something else on the net so I haven't applied for this new Google thing yet.  In fact, I might not.  I'm not a big V show follower.

But I thought you might be.  So here's the video:

The value of information......I told ya!!

Here's a news article that I thought was interesting because, among other things, it shows that I was right again.  And I'm not bragging.  It's just sometimes surprise myself that I don't realize that a lot of my impulses and gut feelings seem to be based on some higher reality.

Remember that I've always said that the salsa dancers and teams who can provide well produced entertainment content stand to have a big 'first mover' advantage in the evolving and developing media world? 

Well, this article shows where it's headed.  Newspapers are saying that in their printed news as well as in their free online publications, that they simply can't afford to provide it for free anymore.  More and more of them are moving toward paid subscription models in their delivered news products.

In my perception, that's just more proof that those of you, like Carlos and Azucena for example, who have the ability to do well designed choreographies and dramatic presentations of salsa dancing.....they'll be amongst the first to actually get paid for their product.

Probably, because they're usually not hard-core business people, most salsa dancers will continue to put their 'stuff' up on YouTube for free.  But there'll be a few who know the value of what they provide who will sell it for what it's worth.  People will pay for good entertainment.  Louis Delgadillo and Ruby Rivera and Jerome Carter in Texas will attest to that.

Then there'll be others who continue to put their stuff up on YouTube for free giving away potentially thousands of dollars of value every year.

Jorege Elizanda had some good ideas he shared with me once about helping people do good chroeograpies to bachata music.  And people like, uhhhh..what's her name, of Chuckies Choreography in Houston have done some remarkable and presumably profitable productions based around salsa themes.  Also Houston Salsa Company does (or at least used to do) some very creative salsa production numbers.

There's a big battle going on right now between those people who want to keep the flow of information on the internet free and those who want to charge for it.  On one level it's a matter of the cost of the infrastructure and technology required to delivery high quality internet connections and on another level it's a matter of people who strictly have a profit motive and want to 'corner the market'. 

On another level it's a matter of certain types of 'we're better than you are' people who think that common people don't deserve all that knowledge and ability to communicate (read....'agitate').

But for the 'here and now', for salsa dancers it means that the first few to learn how to package and market thier 'product' will be able to make some good money and perhaps even build a rewarding career/business.

It's a little monster!

Old adventure films("Saturday Serials")

I seriously doubt than any of my beloved readers are old enough to remember the serialized adventure series that people used to be able to see at the Satureay matinees at movie theaters and/or on the early days of Saturday morning TV.  But I remember.

I remember mostly Flash Gordon which starred Buster Crabb as 'Flash'.  It was a really good series.  But there were others.

There were several western characters of course but especially good was Hoppalong Cassidy.  On the 'sci-fi' side of things you also had Captain Cody.  He was good.

Well, I found a blog yesterday from some gal named "Bibi" who seems to reside in Brazil somewhere.  This is it:  http://www.bibi.vlog.br/

If you click through you'll find a lot of these old serial flicks.  They're really cool.  But in addition to that type of film, you'll also find some links to other films all of which apparently come from some sort of public access archive.  I forget the name of it.  I'd seen it mentioned before.

But this is entertainment that shouldn't be lost or forgotten and apparently it's still available.

Here's a link to one particular episode in the science fiction serious called "Crash(Buzz)Corrigan".  I looked at a few of them last night from a PC bang near where I live but for some reason I can't get it to buffer quickly here at school.  I think you'll like it though.  It's the kind of thing that's nice to have around for real basic entertainment.

Dammit! Black is just fine!

Leave it alone!!  "Foxy" is good enough.

I happen to think that lots of black femmes are very attractive.  Why in the hell do some of them have to go messing with it?!!

Take a look at the picture of Whitney Houston in this article.  Doesn't she look like she's been using Michael Jackson's cosmetician?  And then went out and got sunburned.

And her hair!!!?  C'mon........really now.  She's got a fixation on Patty Page movies?