So what’s with this new fad of talking into cell phones like it’s a walkie-talkie? I’m not sure if it’s a socio-economic thing, but I’m noticing people who seem to be upset with whomever they’re talking to on the phone doing this: when the person is speaking, s/he holds the mic end right up to the mouth and practically yells into the mic, and then when s/he cares to listen to whomever s/he’s yelling at, s/he holds the phone back up to the ear. What up with this? Seems to be a pretty disturbing trend indeed. On a related note, a co-worker at Schematic showed me this page:

http://www.coudal.com/shhh.php

Peldi, one of the lead engineers for FlashCom at Adobemedia, just conducted a MacroChat (AdobeChat?), and the recording can be viewed here:

http://mmchats.breezecentral.com/p69336136/

Wow. If you haven’t heard, look at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html

Last week, at the FlashForward 2005 conference in San Francisco, Kevin Lynch showed more sneek peeks of the next version of Flash. You can read more about it here:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5659052.html?tag=st.num