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| Friday, January 6, 2006 |
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Consume THIS, bottom-tier-feeder 
| | Large phone companies, setting the stage for a big battle ahead, hope to start charging Google Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp. and other Internet content providers for high-quality delivery of music, movies and the like over their telecommunications networks.... |
| | The phone companies envision a system whereby Internet companies would agree to pay a fee for their content to receive priority treatment as it moves across increasingly crowded networks. Those that don't pay the fee would find their transactions with Internet users -- for games, movies and software downloads, for example -- moving across networks at the normal but comparatively slower pace. |
| | Critics of these ideas say that smaller Internet companies will be squeezed out of being able to offer their products at all. "They want to radically change the way they sell telecommunications service," said Mark Cooper, research director of the Washington-based Consumer Federation of America. "We're afraid that they're simply going to pick and choose who's going to win and lose." |
Sniff.
| | the 1940s hack of synchronising everyone's TV set to the same signal was a workaround for having video storage measured in milliseconds. |
| | Lots of good nuggets in that post. I only have one quibble with something he says in here: |
| | Downloading is always better than streaming, and Edited better than Live, except in one instance. |
| | That difference is when you have 2-way interaction. When you can speak back to the person at the other end, either via iChat AV or Skype, or just by having a textual back channel to a conference. |
| | That's where Live is needed. |
| | At home we listen to live radio on the Net, from all over the place, mostly on our Sonos system. Yesterday at the Sonos booth they told me Rhapsody's streaming is a popular service with their customers. So, while I agree with Kevin on the principles here, "always" is a bit too strong a statement for me. |
Instant radio station
| | We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you. |
On the continuing end of politics as usual
| | Nice to see that blogging is becoming a pro forma campaign tool. |
| | Thought: Tip O'Neill said "All politics is local." An modern corollary to that would be "All politics is personal." |
Sad
Welcome
| | I've admired Nick both as an editor and as an expert, for many years. Lots of editors have come and gone in the trade magazine business (sadly the ratio of the latter to the former keeps getting higher), but Nick has held in there. It's great finally to have him on our team at Linux Journal. |
The short list
Life in the vast lane
BV
| | The meta-story behind Intel's Viiv and Clickstream announcments yesterday is not just the death of TV as we know it, but the gang-stabbing of it by Intel, Apple and their new partners in the broadcasting and entertainment industries. Or, if you prefer, by the reconstituted entertainment industry, which will still be about production and distribution, but without the current channel-based TV system (which will come to an FCC-mandated end in 2009 — it was originally scheduled for 2006 — when every TV station will be required to move off its branded VHF channel and up to some unbranded UHF digital channel, by which time nearly everybody will stop watching over-the-air TV anyway, getting everything we used to call TV over cable, satellite or Internet). |
| | I've almost given up anyway. The other night in the hotel we watched Anderson Cooper, CNN's version of Geraldo Rivera (always On the Scene, always Concerned, always Talking With The People Involved), report for 45 minutes on word that nearly all the trapped miners in West Virginia were saved. In the morning we found out that the report was false. Not from the TV, but from a phone call and from bloggers deconstructing the whole mess. |
| | Then I read stuff like this (thanks to Sheila Lennon for the link), and I have even less reason to watch. |
Gang up
| | Identity Gang II is the latest Gillmor Gang podcast. It's the second annual one like this, and there was much discussion of progress made in the meantime. Fun show. Get the .mp3 here. |
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