RedPost/Kit compared to other digital photo frames

Phil forwarded me a NYT article (free reg required) about digital picture frames that included the following chart (can I repost the chart here? I'm not sure...better to ask for forgiveness?):

RedPost/Kit is going to cost about $549 (to start, it'll come down), has a …

Very un-digital paper signage

Yesterday I posted about digital paper signage. Here's a photo from SLOG of decidedly un-digital paper signage. It's what you see in many cities; I like to call them tetanus death traps. Hit your head or any exposed body part on one of these telephone poles and you'll …

Indiana's Carbon Footprint - we're #6!

I saw this post on Treehugger about NJ's carbon footprint and was curious how Indiana ranked. Some numbers (from the U.S. EIA, as of 2003):

• Indiana ranks 6th in overall CO2 emissions (TX, CA, PA, OH, and FL are higher)


• 6th in per capita CO2 emissions (if my math is …

Cheap, interactive "digital" paper signage

My friend Cassie forwarded me a link to this NewScientistTech article about paper (they call it "Paper Four") that has printed circuitry and touch sensors on it. Kinda cool, except you can't update it once you've printed it and the paper probably gets smudgy after a …

RedPost featured in The Harvest Gazette

Harvest, my web 2.0 time-tracking provider (that integrates with Basecamp, my web 2.0 project management provider), choose RedPost for their New Founders program! I was chosen as their June company and I get 1 year's free subscription to their sweet software (which I …

"Digital signage is not television"

James Bickers, editor of Digital Signage Today, wrote a good article on the fundamentals of good digital signage that's part of a larger publication that you can get for free but is not available yet. An excerpt:

But digital signage is not television; it is not an …

Good software makes customers happy: Netflix vs. Blockbuster

I was reading my MarketWatch RSS today and came across this article. ForeSee Results, a Michigan-based company, just released their biannual customer satisfaction survey which measures how happy customers are at 100 websites based on 20,000 surveys (a decent sample …

First First Friday Photos

Click here to see a bunch of photos I took. The event was a big success, with lots of room to grow. I'd estimate we had over 1,000 people over the 4 hours. It was great. Now I'm tired and am going to go have a beer.

RedPost/Goshen New Location: Old Bag Factory

There's now the seventh RedPost in Goshen at the Old Bag Factory.

For pictures of all the RedPost/Goshen locations, click here.

Introducing the 'new guy'

Well, here goes my official first post from the RedPost World Headqarters...

Howdy! My name is Jon Glick and I am the first full-time employee of the RedPost. I'll be helping with software development and numerous other tasks around the RedPost office.

Although I …

Goshen's first First Friday

Today, June 1, 2007, is the first First Friday in Downtown Goshen. I'm the current president of Downtown Goshen, Inc., a non-profit downtown development group that organized this event.

Check out:

• First Fridays website (with map & event info)


• Goshen News article


• The …

Widescreen isn't a grand solution to global warming or anything else other than HDTV

Why is everyone widescreen crazy? I understand that for TV's the FCC has mandated in their "Digital TV" spec that everyone switch to widescreen HDTV by February 17, 2009.

Downside of having an open garage door

A bird just flew into World Headquarters, hit the back wall, and flew out. It was scary. Danny ran like a girl. I laughed.

Talk of the Nation takes on Digital Billboards

Kevin Fry, president of Scenic America, who's slogan is "Change is inevitable. Ugliness is not.," was on NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday to talk about digital billboards. Scenic America is described by the Washington Post as "an advocacy group that rivals roadside …

Salesperson flummoxed

Ok, here's a funny story I just have to blog about: So I got a call from Grant, a salesperson who works for Idearc Media, a recent spinoff of Verizon that runs SuperPages.com and puts together a couple hundred million phone books a year (including my local one).

Grant …

Typing in Dvorak

There's a post on the Freakonomics Blog today about the ongoing debate over Dvorak vs. Qwerty, which are two different keyboard layouts, as in, the layout of the keys that you type on a keyboard. Most people aren't aware of the fact that there are different layouts, but …

Updated RedPost/Goshen web feed

As a first project, Jon, the newest employee here at RedPost World Headquarters, added front and back buttons to the RedPost/Goshen web feed. So now you can browse forward and back without having to wait for the whole thing to cycle thru to see a particular poster. …

Buying local

I deal with quite a few vendors and I have to say that the closer they are to me, the happier I (usually) am with them. I've been trying to find a custom corrugated box manufacturer and, after seeing a sponsorship ad on the local public TV station (I've been watching

DigitalSignageExpo: Some photos

The Minicom bloggers just posted some photos from the Expo. I was there (but not in these photos)!

Marketers are trying to fight us for control

My friend Phil (who advertises on RedPost/Goshen) emailed me an LA Times article about digital signage. A portion:

On the other hand, ad omnipresence is pushing some over the edge.

"I'm just so overwhelmed by it," said Kendra Miller, a 26-year-old business manager who …