Kodak Plus Digital Film

Kodak Plus Digital Film Kodak has new 35mm and Advantix film named Plus Digital Film. Take your 35mm camera, pop in the 35mm and I am sure most consumers will think they have just upgraded to digital photography. What is digital about this product? If you process your photographs using Kodak’s Perfect Touch processing service they will return your prints with a free CD. In case you regularly forget to check the box on the envelope indicating you would like a scan of your photographs on CD, your film’s packaging lets the photo lab know you would really like a CD with your prints. Very bad idea. I can see the Wal-Mart shoppers thinking they have just upgraded their camera with this canister of 35mm film.

John Battelle interviews Tony Scott, CTO of GM

John Battelle interviewed Tony Scott, CTO of GM, in the July 2004 issue of Business 2.0.

When you go to a gas station now, you can stick the nozzle into the gas tank and it works. But in the early days of the auto industry, there were 2,000 car companies, nothing was standardized, and demand far exceeded supply. In that early era, you could do whatever you wanted. The tech industry has by and large been in that same mode. But that’s now changing.

Today in the typical car, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a GM or a Honda (HMC), electronics and software represent roughly about a third of the cost of the car, more than the labor or the steel. They’re the single biggest cost in a car today — and rising.

HFS+ and Spotlight

John Gruber of Daring Fireball takes a closer look at Spotlight and Dominic Giampaolo’s modifications to HFS+ which enable the rich desktop search.

Some interesting issues.

[T]he new Tiger version of Mail stores each message as a separate file that allows Spotlight to effectively return individual mail messages as search results. No other major mail client uses a one-message-per-file storage format.

Importers are fired on every file the moment it is created, saved, changed, or moved, including when files are made available through a newly mounted drive.

W Ketchup

W Ketchup National Review advertisement If your choice of ketchup makes you feel like a Democrat buy some patriotic W Ketchup today. Dedicated to Ronald Reagan. Made from the finest California tomatoes using ketchup techniques passed down through American generations. Made in Ohio. “You don’t support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?”

Technorati tracks 3 million weblogs

Technorati broke past the 3 million weblog mark last night. “On an average weekday, we’re seeing over 15,000 new weblogs created per day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds.” Technorati pulls new weblogs from sources like weblogs.com and blo.gs. You could of course ping Technorati directly, but I would like to see a more stable what’s new service with the traffic and hosting burdens shouldered by the industry.