Word: kodaking
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...Want to make a movie?" I asked my daughter Clementine, giving her the sleek Flip MinoHD ($230). I tossed the slightly larger Kodak Zi6 ($180) to her best pal, Katie. "Let me know how it goes, kids." They tootled off excitedly to make a caper film, and I turned my attention to online poker. Sometimes this job is so easy, I feel like Tom Sawyer...
...settings that come on higher-end models. Both produce high-definition video. Both have USB plugs that pop up at the touch of a button, switchblade-style, so you don't need a separate cord to connect them to your computer. Both have super-easy-to-use editing software (Kodak's is PC-only) that lets you snip together movies and auto-upload them to YouTube. The biggest downside: neither comes with image stabilization. At least not yet. (See the 50 best inventions...
...authors give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty...
...Nostalgia. It's delicate. But potent." It's November 1960, and ad writer Don Draper (Jon Hamm), in the first-season finale of Mad Men, is pitching a room of Kodak executives on a campaign for their new slide projector. He's loaded the carousel with his family pictures, a poignant gesture because of what we know about him: not only does he cheat on his wife--prolifically--but he also hides his true identity from her and the rest of the world. Born Dick Whitman and orphaned as a boy, he went to Korea, swiped the dog tags...
...life is as phony as a stock photograph. Unloved as a child, he may never know how to love, though he's learned the gestures. Yet looking at his compromised memories, he wells up, and so do we, even as we know we're being sold. The Kodak suits want to focus on their machine's technology. Don argues that its true pull is emotional. "In Greek," Don says, "nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound...