Hollywood Is Out Of Ideas
7/14/08
At this point it should be blatantly obvious that I have just learned of the tool that allows me to insert pictures into my blogs. For the first two weeks of blogging here at Brilliont I was simply typing my blogs into Microsoft Word and then copying and pasting them into our blog editor.
I found an interesting article in the New York Times today about the reaction to a trailer for the upcoming movie “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”. It seems that a lot of dog lovers have posted videos of themselves on YouTube watching the trailer to the movie in disgust. This article really struck me for reasons other than Hollywood has clearly run out of movie ideas. Sites like Google and YouTube have really allowed people to be creative in such new ways. I think that Google lets us be creative and answer questions for ourselves that we may be too embarrassed to ask others. With Google’s simple start page we are not distracted and can just search for the information we crave. YouTube lets video posters be “stars” and watchers be voyeurs. Google’s algorithm and YouTube’s user interface are really innovative because they have been able to dominate their respective marekts even though there have been search engines and video posting sites for many years.
Speaking of innovation, there are scientists at MIT who are experimenting on how to make solar cells more efficient and economical for wide-spread use. The biggest hindrances to solar cells are clouds and rain, so these scientists have invented a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) which uses dye to trap sunlight for the solar cells directly. While there are issues with this innovation presently, it is certain that the energy crisis will lead to more ideas flowing on alternative energy sources.
-Amit
akooner@brilliont.com
Tags: alternative energy, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Google, MIT, New York Times, solar cells, YouTube
