Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible

This is exactly what I wanted to hear as 2010 started. No flying car, but real progress in bringing my Trek fantasies to life.

Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of. Now, researchers in Japan have used the same principles to prove that energy can be teleported in the same fashion as information. Rather than just hastening the dawn of quantum computing, this development could lead to practical, significant changes in energy distribution.

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5 by 5 Studios and Dan Benjamin - Champion of the week!

Color me impressed! (Is that an actual thing people say or did I make that up?)

Regardless I've been impressed this week by Dan Benjamin and his newest creation.

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Last Tuesday when the entire world seemed obsessed with Apple, Dan posted on Hivelogic the following

I have some big news: starting today, I’m podcasting for a living.

Introducing 5 by 5 studios

This is something I get giddy upon hearing. This is what the new media economy is all about.

I'm 37, I know I will not have a chance of being a rock star at this point, but I could someday give up the day job if the right opportunity presents itself.

So what is 5 by 5 studios? Dan described it as network for all of the current shows he works on (except for The Talk Show). What I found compelling is the new content added to the roster.

The Pipeline - an interview show talking with designers, developers, writers, and entrepreneurs.

The Conversation - a live-streamed talk show featuring topical discussions, reviews, special guests, news and, your calls, all live.

So far I've heard the premiere episode of The Conversation and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be listening to The Pipeline shortly.

The underwriting premise appears to be sponsorship based. If the quality maintains what I know of Dan, this network of shows will keep a place in my podcast feed for sometime.

This will likely remain true even if the underwriting moves to a subscription based model.

Back in 2007 Ken Ray announced on Mac OS Ken that he was going to try something new and asked for support in the form os subscriptions to his new show.

The Flash Battle

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Since Apple unveiled the iPad last Wednesday a large focus has been centered on the lack of Flash support.

Sides were quickly formed; Pro-Flash or Anti-Flash.

The Pro-Flash side calling it absolutely unacceptable for a modern and powerful media device to not allow Flash content.

The Anti-Flash side points out the public lack of support on the iPhone along with major reasons to despise the technology.

The Pro-Flash camp pointed out sites like Hulu and YouTube for video, and the numerous games available only through a Flash interface. Adobe even chimed in with a blog post presenting their argument for Flash.

And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

They have a valid (somewhat) point that the flash platform allows flexibility and a maturity that does not exist in other technologies such as HTML5.

The Flash Blog (An independent site evangelizing the Flash platform) was quick to point out how widespread the content is including pointing out very obviously the porn side of the web. They used a very effective tagline in the post that had twitter ablaze with arguments.

Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos.

On the other side of the fence was the Anti-Flash camp, pointing out statements that Flash is the leading cause of crashes on Mac's. The fact that it is a huge CPU hog and that is just a bad format. I would generally count myself in this camp, my MacBook runs Flash content horribly. HTML5 is going to be great, especially when paired with the advances in AJAX.

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