Well, ok, one of my shames; I actually want a TabletPC.

After all, I still use my Newton 2100.... Ok, I use it as an alarm clock, but I do use it. There are simply times that I find writing a hell of a lot more efficient than typing. Add to that, the fact that there are just some tasks that are more efficient when done with a pen.

So here I am, looking at articles on people doing cool stuff with TabletPCs

If only they didn't suck.

10:16:41 PM     Discuss: []

Doc Writeth:

I've always believed that journals were not inside the media circle. There was something about them that was outside, looking in. That they were exceptional, somehow, to the Great Media Machinery by which stuff is pumped from a few producers to a zillion consumers. That the whole producer/consumer industrial model didn't apply. Or at least applied with a degree of conditionality. Now I wonder.

Gotta think about this some more. Meantime I gotta go make breakfast.

I dunno, it sounds like Doc is looking for some dividing line, for when something becomes "Media". I have to say, generally, that I think he's chasing the wrong goose.

Blogs are already media. They were media, the moment someone read a weblog entry and moved on, simply receiving the info and not contributing to the flow of information.

What makes them not "media", at least in the sense that Doc seems to be using the word, is what's happening now; I'm responding in the same arena, and anyone else can do the same. Within the confines of having a computer+net connection+opinion+urge to respond.

If I write that I thought that the remake of "Battlestar Galactica" suxed (which it basically did), that doesn't show up on Sci-Fi channel, or even on their website.

Alternately, this post, if it were on a real domain that people actually read (;)), could easily show up on Doc's blog.

As far as his quotes from Simon Dumenco and his piece that blamed both blogs and TiVo for second-hand opinion manufacture, I think that Simon needs to get out and meet more actual humans. I'm guessing he's never met the person who thinks that, because he or she has read an article in Time/The Boston Globe/National Enquirer, that they are now an Authority On The Subject (Whatever the hell it is).

Blogs just make it easier on the know-it-alls. :)

Now I do have some thoughts on the problem with maintaining a "thread" on Blogs, but they're still percolating, and have been since I was thinking about that "UseNet 3.0 Project".

10:13:07 PM     Discuss: []