The future of news in a flash piece? This simple but effective animation works from technology that is here and builds a scenario of the future of customized feeds where "news" is threatened if not dead. It warns us that "it doesn't have to be that way." I liked the animation and Robin's discussion of how it became view de jour is instructive. Poynter Online - Convergence Chaser

Future talk beyond the zigbee which is a form of technology, here are some predictions and scenarios of how technologies will play out in the world of work. Still pushing the "lone wolf" model of work? Forget it. Social collaboration mediated by devices is the direction we are headed. On the tech radar | Tech News on ZDNet: "Gartner's prediction that by 2010, 70 percent of the population in developed nations will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the digital world than in the physical one is not surprising. Coincident with that trend, collaboration tools for enabling electronic interaction -- ranging from Wikis to sites that can identify and provide specific expertise to a group -- will take on more prominence"

Oh yes. Interesting way to solicit the wisdom of crowds for commercial use. receiver

The big story that is lurking in the blogs and online. Was the election flawed? How bad were the errors? Why is the mainstream media, especially the TV news acting like nothing happened? For media mavens, this is the story to watch.BuzzFlash > Maureen Farrell > Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

Zigbee: new topic. You know me and my curiosity about new technologies. I like to watch the new technology as it tries to establish its own tipping point and become ubiquitous. Zigbee seems like it is at the beginning of this move. You will read about zigbee in Current Buzz from now on. Wi-Fi, which I followed from its beginning is just about ubiquitous, so it is of less interest to me now. When whole cities (Philly, for example) are getting wired, and every coffeeshop is a wi-fi zone, even journalists who are often the worst type of close-minded techno-phobes probably are using Wi-fi, so I am going to write about it less as I shift my interest to Zigbee. Just in case you are thinking, who would want to use zigbee, I note my husband would like to be able to sit at my computer and monitor the efficiency of oury heating system and set the thermostat setback to its most efficient setting. I think it would be fine to use zigbee to send a shopping list to my phone's "to-do" list from my refrig, based on what products are running low. So much for the news from geek central. What Is ZigBee?