Last night I got my hands on a Scarlet RED prototype and was able to snap some photos. This was a non-working prototype. The camera will be around $2,800 for the body. The prime lens shown will run about $1k and there will be a zoom lens kit that will run about $5k. Click the images for the full res photos. My thanks go out to Tim Street and Ted Schilowitz.

Find more CES 2010 coverage at Tech Podcasts and Geek News Central and follow the Twitter hashtag #TPNCES

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1. Taylor Swift’s “Live” Performance • After Taylor Swift’s performance at the 2009 MTV VMAs, I did a little thinking on what would have been necessary for it to have been pulled off honestly. The second option I gave was a straight lip-sync’d and pre-taped performance. Someone in comments piped up to say that she was in the subway when they taped the first half of the performance.
2. The Worst Type of Exploitation Spam • When I posted my resume to Craigslist, I got a good amount of spam back, but I took issue with one specific email from spark1energy.net and dissected it. The comments exploded with people who received similar emails, including some people defending the company. It continues to be a source of traffic on a daily basis.
3. itpc:// A Podcaster’s Best Friend • This post let podcasters know how to set up one click subscriptions to their podcasts without first sending subscribers to a page within iTunes. It also works to use while waiting for Apple to approve your podcast.
4. DMC LX3 Video Test • I got a Panasonic DMC-LX3 camera as a gift for my 27th birthday, and it’s since become my favorite camera I’ve ever used. This was published in 2008, but was still tops because of the simple title to the post’s high search ranking for “DMX LX3 video” and “DMC LX3 video test”.
5. Slow hosting from GoDaddy • I have had issues surrounding the blog all year, mostly relating to GoDaddy. In this case, it was an issue with the code from Lijit, a search plugin. For the past year, I’ve been obsessed with speeding up the site as much as possible, and I’ve managed to reduce page loading times down to a quarter of what they were a year ago.

Photo: What’s going on? via Flickr by me

I’ll be at CES this year, part of a production team that includes Todd Cochrane from Geek News Central, Jeffrey Powers from Geekazine and Andrew McCaskey of SDR News. In a few days, I’m headed back to Las Vegas for CES as part of an experienced team of producers, bloggers, podcasters and all around kick-ass folks. We will be producing videos posting while we are at CES, after we leave and doing two special hours of live streaming from the NBC Universal stage. Under Tech Podcasts Network, we’ll have two live shows, one Saturday and one Sunday that I will be technical directing. I’ll be primarily functioning as someone off-camera, but there’s a chance you might see me on occasion spouting my opinions or interviewing someone.

I’ll be in Las Vegas from January 6th – January 12th, if you’re planning on being at CES, please leave a comment or contact me and we’ll meet up when we can.

To follow the coverage, here are the important links to keep track of what’s going on:

Rob Blatt on Twitter – Where I always am. Once I get to Vegas, expect most everything to be CES related.
CES Videos at Blip.tv, CES Videos RSS feed & CES Videos in iTunes – Polished video interviews from CES
CES Back Channel at Blip.tv, CES Back Channel RSS & CES Back Channel in iTunes – this is content we will be posting as we record it. It’s a rough look at what being at CES is like. Some behind the scenes, some interviews with smaller companies and some random stuff I’m sure.
NBC Universal at CES Schedule – Check to see who will be on the NBCU Stage
Tech Podcasts Network on UStream – Where you can see the live shows
Rob Blatt on FourSquare – If you’ll be in Vegas, you can see where I am as I check in on fourSquare

Here’s an announcement from Todd Cochrane, RawVoice CEO in video form:

This is something I’m extremely proud to be a part of, and if you’d like to follow along from wherever you are, I invite you to do so using the links I’ve provided.

Thank you to everyone who I’ve collaborated with, the experiences we shared helped me get to this point.

Part one of a multi-week series

Many people use the New Year to start or stop certain habits. I’m not different in my previous resolutions. I’ve said I will stop drinking sodas (failed), only eat pizza once a week at maximum (failed), stop drinking caffeine (failed) and countless other resolutions without actual solutions. I went into this year with no plan to resolve to do anything in 2010, but an iPhone app changed that.

I have a bunch of reasons to not start running. I’m fat, have fallen arches, I lived on a hill, I’m too busy, I don’t have the right shoes and, of course, I don’t know how to run. These are the barriers that I’ve placed ahead of myself, excluding the fallen arches, my body handed me that one. A recent extensive search for new sneakers put me in the odd position of having two shoes that were meant for jogging.

All of a sudden I have the right shoes, I no longer live on a hill and I’m not too busy, but I still didn’t know how to run. The only barrier left is not knowing how to run. This is where Couch to 5K comes in. It’s an iPhone app that trains you over the course of nine weeks to be able to run five kilometers. All that’s left is my weight, but that’s why I’m learning to run in the first place, right?

I ran my first thirty minute program this morning, with little friction. I stretched a bit using the app’s chart, laced up my Puma Speed M sneakers, headed south on 4th Ave in Brooklyn and started the first programmed run (noted as 1.1) while listening to Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown. When changing between running/jogging and walking, you hear a sound effect and a voice over the music indicating it’s time to walk or run. I was concerned I was going to have to pay attention to how long I had been running, but the app announces when you are halfway in your run. A very nice touch that indicates the engineer (Felt Tip Inc.) did some real world testing before committing the app for Apple’s approval.

As part of my resolution to finish the program on the Couch to 5k iPhone app, I’ll be logging my progress at the end of each week, creating a ten part review of the app and how I’m doing.

I’m the Job Search Tech Specialist of the NYC Job Seekers group on Meetup. Something that I encourage each job seeker in the group to do is to start accounts on LinkedIn and VisualCV. There are two reasons I suggest starting accounts on these sites; the first is to provide extra information to potential employers and the second is to control the first page of results on Google, Bing and other search engines when potential employers search for their names.

According to an ExecuNet survey, 86% of executive recruiters say they have conducted background research on candidates using the web. I know that when someone searches me, they’ll find my blog, my company’s site, Flickr, Twitter, an audiobook I produced and some other Rob Blatt-centric sites. The bottom line is, it’s me.

A while ago, I wrote a post dissecting an email from spark1energy. Many other people searched a portion of the email or spark1energy.net and left comments on my post, saying they received the same email that I did. There were even some people who posted private information about other commenters in retaliation for agreeing with me. It reminded me what Ashley Morgan went through with his Immediate Edge [original post removed] postings. The funny thing is that Ashley also wrote something similar to this post after getting onto the front page for searches for Immediate Edge [original post removed].

What Ashley Morgan and my experience should be telling you is that you need to have control over searches for your name. If you don’t take control, someone else will, and you might not like what they have to say.

Referenced: Growing Number Of Job Searches Disrupted By Digital Dirt