September 11, 2009 – By John Feilen
As this is my first post since June, it is obvious that I took the summer off from blogging. This was in part because I felt I had lost my voice…I didn’t seem to have a common theme or thread. In short I was writing about what I thought people wanted to hear instead of that about which I was (am) really passionate. Yes, I did find some…most of what I was posting interesting but guess it became more of a labor and than labor of love.
After I walked away, I realized what I find most interesting about technology is the intersection between technology, creativity and the user experience. How we see new ideas realized in products and how these ideas/concepts become part of our everyday lives; the iPhone and iPod for example.
Now after we have celebrated (or mourned) the official end of summer with the Labor Day weekend, we see that it’s all still there, work, the bad economy and yes advancements in technology. As I mentioned in previous posts, I believe the consumption of media and data over an IP network (or watching TV and movies on our computers) is the future. No, we won’t sit in front of our PC to watch Ugly Betty but the show will be delivered on demand to our flat screen HDTV; this is already possible and a lot of people are doing it.
Wednesday (September 9, 2009) the Los Angles Times reported nearly 25% of households in the
Read full article: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-online-tv9-2009sep09,0,3144574.story
Visit Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/
Please feel free to post thoughts, comments below.
One last thing, during the month of August I redesigned and rebuilt my interactive portfolio in flash: www.john-fred.com. All comments and feedback are appreciated…as long as they are polite. ;-)
Email me at: johnsblog@john-fred.com.

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