startup news

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contact:
Ismael Rosales
PO BOX 16002
NORTH HOLLYWOOD CA 91615-6002
Cloak Media
http://www.cloakmedia.com/

Cloak Media Portal Launch

LOS ANGELES-September 8, 2005-Cloak Media introduces a web portal site dedicated to the coming solid state high definition entertainment and electronic news gathering workflows and toolsets. The site’s focus is on how Apple solutions like Final Cut Pro, Mac OS X Client, QuickTime, and Mac OS X Server meld into the new era, as video tape is eliminated and replaced by flash memory devices and video ingested to storage area networks (SAN).

Cloak Media news topics include the comparison of iSCSI SAN to fibre channel SAN, IBC 2005 Panasonic announcement of a prototype AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD camcorder, next generation gigabit SAN via internet protocols (IP storage), Intel processors inside the Mac, and the software a media architect will use to transform information and broadcasting.

As computer platforms move into the living room, into palm sized devices, and into wireless devices, the production pipelines must become more effective, and demonstrate reductions in system administration. Use Cloak Media portal to manage the ebbing information technology maelstrom.

Pricing and Availability
The Cloak Media website, at www.cloakmedia.com is available immediately free of charge.

For Information: http://www.cloakmedia.com/

i love china!

over the course of ten years, millions of north american jobs have migrated to china, along with employment opportunities in europe, western asia, and south america. trade sanctions dropped and now chinese imports are not at record levels, but unbelievable levels. with a state controlled currency, plentiful workforce, and a growing middle class, world capitalism at its best has made a communist country the vanguard to the world. the ports of long beach and los angeles teem with activity, as electronics, foodstuffs, furniture, and clothes flood in as rusted cars, cotton bails, and other raw resources return to the land where everything is made.

in a 2005 interview with bill gates, the question posed was if any company gave gates some trepidation and competition. his answer was microsoft feared no single company (not apple, IBM, HP, etc.) but he had much concern about the china inc. laboratory. we are getting killed by chinese innovation. unfortunately, we cannot turn back time, and this is the new world order. the 20th century may have been the american century, but the 21st centruy will become known as the chinese century.

a recent movie i saw, ying xiong (hero), directed by yimou zhang of shi mian mai fu (house of flying daggers), da hong deng long gao gao gua (raise the red lantern), and ju dou fame told the tale of the unification of china some 2000 years ago. it was a spiritual movie, with fantastic fight pieces and excellent story. china has always been the apex of society historically, and over the last half century, have been building and developing for this moment and this time. the beijing olympics in three years will only cement this relationship that china is the center of the world.

i hold out some hope that the USA will continue to supply the world with weapons of mass destruction (military industrial complex), lively motion pictures, and electronic entertainment, and maybe a print author or two, but it was nice while it lasted.

we’re all on the titanic, on this time racing towards the bottom. all must take advantage of our new partnership with china, but wisely. as real earnings plummet for the bulk of western civilization and unemployment will continue to rise, every penny must be well spent.

so in this new climate, that i am gearing up to enter for the next 30 years, the only thing i have to offer is my creativity, honesty, integrity, and God given abilities to absorb new information, teach, and share. this is the foundation to cloak media.

when changing or starting a business, an inevitable expense is buying more stuff to make thinks work faster, do thinks better, or just learn new stuff. be it new software, new hardware, new clothes, or whatever, for the start-up it’s easy to go wild and buy with abondon. i did this when i started green building concepts, but i learned my lesson in 1997, and will never do that again. i only buy something that i need for the next 30 days, unless it a birthday or Christmas gift for somone else.

here is my strategy on gettng great deals: never buy at retail prices. now this does not mean i only buy from ebay or overstock, but i always wait until what i’m getting is on sale, on clearance, or just after some mail in rebate. it may seem stupid to wait for a rebate, but i consider it an investment in the future, that will pay with interest in abour 8 to 12 weeks. and i always get my rebate, because i follow the directions on the mail in form. if it says original receipt, that’s what i put. if it calls for red ink instead of black, that too. if it calls for two UPC’s i made a copy. whatever the form says, i follow to the letter.

the best trick i’ve found in processing rebates is always to use a #10 business envelope, computer addressed with a USPS bar code for easy computer delivery. also, if the UPC is small, i tape it to a strip of paper so i will not hide inside the envelope. for all i know these rebates are processed in india or canada, so you have to send them for the long haul.

my second tip for bargains, is using the web. i search the sites:

fat wallet
slick deals
tech bargains
deal news

before i buy anything. this is a result of an article i read in november 2004. one of the largest consumer electronic dealers in the USA, best buy, made some statements in the wall street journal that some of it’s customers only buy things when they are heavily discounted and the company is losing money. they called these special customers, some 20% of its base, “devils.” they warned about the above sites that share coupon codes and discount strategies. i am one of those customers who buys only when something is free or close to it. good luck to you getting back at the man.

part of my business plan is to get my name out as a pipeline/workflow architect. i also know quite a bit about storage area networks (SAN). to leverage my knowledge, i’ve joined an online community.

SANetworks forum

please visit regulary to see what type of discussions i get generate. i’ve been lurking at the creative cow community for several years checking out the HDV forum, panasonic P2 forum, and panasonic varicam.

i’ve actually been to both the creative cow conference and a few years back at DV expo los angeles, i won autodesk combustion along with many books about networked media. thank you creative cow. now i get to contribute to the blogosphere.

so i experimented with http://www.blojsom.com/ on mac OS X server tiger, and it’s completely trivial to set up. now after a day using it, i’ve installed worldpress onto cloakmedia. and it works! it’s such a pleasure to escape the monotony of HTML editors like golive or dreamweaver (both adobe companies) and go directly to the page information. that’s why we visit sites, not to awe over the tables or CSS tags, but to read and learn. i will include some pictures in a future blog post, but for now enjoy the day to day updates on cloak media weblog service. i think i’m going to dig up my older ical blog so it can be published to the world.

this is not my first blog. i tried ical, but it was too buggy and did not display properly. now three years later, i start up my second log using a mature web application.

i started exploring the apache services available to mac OS X server, and what a beautiful experience. in the old jaguar server, you had to edit some hidden files to enable PHP and mySQL, now there is a web interface or small app that does it for you. i just learned that i have a built in search engine for my blog and other website i deploy on the server using this unque url:

www.mywebsite.com/.spotlight

so no more going to atomz.com for free search. mac OS X server tiger will do it for me.

if everything in life was this simple. install mac OS X server 10.4 tiger on a legacy powermac G4 cube. install any and all updates. load the default bonjour website. hit start weblog. begin typing. that’s all i had to do. i learned this web application in under 20 minutes!

today i finished off my resume and business cards for my siggraph 2005 launch. in around a week i will know if i’ve made some headway into the los angeles marketplace. my solutions are a quarter away, but i’ll have a few experiences to write about. pray for me.