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Rosa Parks Passes Away,October 24th, 2005.

I wish to offer my sincere sympathies to the family and friends of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died on Monday at age 92. I chose the image at the right because it seemed ironic, yet fitting in dignified respect to her unsought notoriety. Rosa Parks will always be remembered for her refusal to move to the back of the bus to make room for 'whites', on a fateful day, December 1st, 1955. Her arrest, incarceration, and trial catalyzed the black community into solidarity, catapulting Martin Luther King Jr. to the national scene, and resulting in the 381 day Montgomery Bus Boycott that ended when the laws legalizing segregation were lifted.

The actions of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., among many others were instrumental for many recognizing the absurdity that is racism.

B. Drew Moynihan
Publisher
BAM 2 Media

Print is dead.

The statement "Print is Dead" sounds as if I am trying to be sensational, but let me clarify, print as we know it today, is changing, the traditional media we hold between our hands and sullies our fingers will disappear. 

Developments in e-ink or digital paper from the likes of Sony, Plastic Logic, E Ink Corp, and Phillips, are changing the way we read and ultimately interact with traditional print media.  Soon, you will be able to pull out your purchased e-reader, unscroll the page, and read this morning news paper, this weeks local, or this months national magazine, then roll the display back up and throw it into your brief case.  How soon you may ask?  That is for the technological soothsayers, engineers and marketers to determine, and it’s likely you may see the devices this year.   All the companies I mentioned above have working mockups; the current goals are A5 paper dimensions (5.8x8.3 inches) at 100 dpi resolutions, with larger sizes and higher resolutions to follow quickly in 2006, and mass adoption once fine tuning is complete in late 2008.  And as for the delivery method, it is already in place; it's called the Internet.