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Monday, October 1, 2001
Conversation with a fast forward button 
| | As with e-business technologies more broadly, the greatest challenge for the established TV industry is to find a viable economic model in the age of the Internet. The economics of TV are heavily tied to interruptive advertising, which loses its value when people control what they watch and when they watch it. And that's why TV, like legions of dot-com start-ups, faces a fundamental business challenge it has not yet solved. |
| | My own experience since I got a TiVo is typical of every other subscriber I've spoken with. To put it simply, I watch more TV now, but fewer commercials. Furthermore, I have no sense of when and on what channel a program originally aired. Take those usage patterns and extend them to tens of millions of homes--which will happen as the devices and services become more affordable--and broadcast industry economics no longer add up. |
| | Kevin works at EDventure Holdings, which survived the 9/11 disaster, and wrote this (with a picture from their offices) on the 9/19 edition of the company blog. |
Rolling back
| | Nice blogrolls from The New Jazz Thing, TimeShadow, Jubilation, Massless (love the "perfectly sane and thoughtful" line), Baylink (see The Calculus of Emotion), Zemblog, Cybersaps (nice Cluetrain column down on the left side), Daniel Berlinger's Archipelago, Brian Carnell (he calls Pacifism stupid, but hey, he's reading), Goeff's Mindless Wanderings, Phil Wolff and others I just found by looking only in the last week on DayPop. Very cool. |
Boffo idea
| | Dave is getting back into idea processing, which in software means inspired outlining. A few months back Stewart Brand told me he's sure there are thousands of old MORE users who would welcome the product's return in a new incarnation. Count me as one of them. |
Retreating from the Web
Meet the global Viet Cong
Tune in, turn on, tune in some more
| | Check out TestingTesting tonight for Don Billie and Elaine Woods, live from Gordy Coale's living room at his place on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Great stuff. |
| | We did a show [TestingTesting] ... where where there were 100 slots for people to log on and listen to the show and chat during the show. And it was one of the most unique experiences I've ever had as a performer. Every two or three songs the radio host‹it was like a radio broadcast, except it was on the Internet‹would interrupt and say, "Christine, Annie who's listening in Detroit would like to know if you would do such-and-such." The next day, they gave me a full printout of all the chatting that was going on during the show‹-from the people who were at home in their pajamas in front of their computer‹and we had about 200 people in the audience. I've only done it once, but I really liked it. So it's a live concert, with interaction involved because of the Internet, and you can't do that if it's just on the radio. |
| | By the way, we owe to Christine the acronym SNAG, for the title to her song, Sensitive New Age Guys. Present company included, of course. |
Clearing things up
| | Steve Gibson Says here that Microsoft's ClearType was first done by Apple on the Apple II, and that the idea may have come from none other than Woz himself. |
Perhaps also giving new meanings to "ground out" and "short"
| | At the Living Code blog, Dethe Elza (aka "Daddy Gravity") delivers us a neoblogism: |
| | Interesting comparison of public and Montessori kindergartens as well. Having put kids through both at different times, it's easy to agree. |
| | I thank Daddy Gravity himself for the link. Living Code is a great blog — full of deep, wise, funny and otherwise worthy stuff. Dig it. |
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