Video on the iPhone – Sweet Solution Proposal

Sure, it will be a nice day when the iPhone finally incorporates Flash (not to mention cut&paste) but that doesn’t really get me excited.

However, Mashable has an insider look at an app being developed by the gang at Revision3 that is just what the doctor ordered.

How totally cool and smart.  All their programming in one place, constantly updated and allowing me, the viewer, the follow the shows I like and discover new ones.

Is this sort of what we will get with the addition of podcast downloads? A bit, but this is so much more dynamic and allows the content distributor to control their own environment.

What is holding back these sorts of apps, Apple?!

Dead Tree Media on a Death March

Hardly a day goes by that somebody doesn’t write about the decline of the newspaper in America.  Micropursuasion sees a perfect storm forming to take out newspapers once and for all due to rising fuel costs impact on distribution, environmental concerns about wasting paper and:

“Last but not least we have the growing popularity of speedy 3G-enabled smart phones, including the new iPhone 3G. The devices are declining in price while offering a lot more sophisticated experience for reading news.”

Tough to argue with their logic and tough to imagine that the kids of today will be picking up the daily paper off the front porch in the future.

Of course, the end of newpapers doesn’t mean the end of news, or journalists for that matter.  I really don’t think that the dying off of newspapers is such a big deal.

The terrible tragedy is what will happen to the paperboys (and girls) of America.  Lost, with no papers needing delivery, kids will no longer have that key first job experience.  The domino effect will lead to a drastic decline in the value of an American worker and a massive increase in early morning, kid-related crime.

So, stop worrying about the newspapers.  Worry about the paperboys!

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