In a later post Mark comments on why he stopped directly supporting his PBS station, despite his wanting to help.But I was genuinely starting to feel like every time I sent KCET fifty dollars, they spent sixty trying to get more out of me. I kinda wanted my money to go for programming, not badgering […]
It’s also part of the libertarian argument for the same.Mark Evanier gets it.Public TV (and radio for that matter) is very likely to survive without government, especially if it can shed a few pounds of bureaucracy in the process. So much of what it does is somewhat “commercial” anyway, with marketing of spinoff books, videos, […]
Last month they promoted Star Wars episode 3, Now they’re promoting the Fantastic Four…Remember when TV Guide used to actually be about Television?
Because that’s where the REAL news is.Jacqueline and her mom find that they’ve got different news stories on their mind as the “big news” of the day. Jacqueline shames her mom for her choices of news sources. (read the whole thing)The blogs I read bring my attention to the latest news of importance, and link […]
Observations from Jeff Jarvis’ Buzzmachine:: As I sent my machine to Dell in the Airborne ambulance, I took the hard drive out at Dell’s demand (what if it’s the hard drive or the registry that’s broken? they will make me spend hours on the phone to diagnose that, said the man). I put it in […]
From Instant Social Conversion: More thoughts on Apple / Intel:The big winner in all of this is Transitive, who is supplying the JIT emulation layer that Apple is calling Rosetta……This technology is bigger than Google in depth and market stickiness Read this article. It goes into detail about how emulation software will revolutionize computing. It […]
Along with the announcements of Apple moving to Intel processors, some technology pundits say that what Apple should do is allow OS X to run on existing PCs as an alterntative to Windows, or at least allow licenced clones again.The logic of this argument is that this is how Microsoft has gotten to be the […]
Some people hate Microsoft for being a “Monopoly”, or for just being a large company. Some hate MS just because they prefer another operating system.I’m not part of the cult of anti-personality of MS haters. (I have, however, drunk the Macintosh Cool-Aid decades ago)But there’s a good reason to dislike them at the moment…On some […]
I’m listening to news radio, and they are getting ready for the verdict in the trial of Michael Jackson.I can hear the screaming of M.J.’s fans.Here’s my problem. Why is it that celebrity somehow makes it impossible in some people’s mind that they could commit a crime? What is it that makes these fans flock […]
My analysis of this news can be summed up in a quote from the new Battlestar Galactica (which may have been quoting from J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan”):“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.”By this I mean the transition for users will be mostly seamless. For those of us who’ve […]