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Voiceml to serve as a personal assistant - have the application parse the text it is reading from into the individual phonemes that make up the words ( a dictionary could be done on a chip, with some form of semi static ram to serve updates/personal changes... or use a cf or microdrive as needed) once parsed, it runs another pass this time noting punctuation to break up the rhythm of the speech. A simple algorithm is then used as the text is read to approximate spots where a person would breathe and or pause.
On the flip side those same technologies combined with a noise canceling microphone would serve to get information in, and help speed dictation and closed captioning of TV shows and movies.
Back on the personal assistant, it could then take dictation, schedule appointments, read you your e-mail and news headlines as well as any other info that you need. XML feeds of the information would serve to help you store, edit, and quantify on the topics you a re interested in, so long as the news provider was willing to hand out the rss feed.
Further, this could lead to a personalized librarian as described in All Tomorrows Parties as well as in Snow Crash. Combine that with the home manufacturing plant/machine shop, and you could have everything you need built to either your specifications, or to a "class size" as Herman Miller does with their chair lines now (offering 3 sizes depending on user height and weight, covering a certain amount of the bell curve with each one.)
Using the cost per served data model described in Farewell Horizontal and Snow Crash would also help kick peer to peer into high gear, as folks would have more of a reason to serve up their information, and would be paid less for not being the first to get to it. Plus there would be a repository of "old school" that you could get to any time that is brand new, and content creators would get paid for their works forever justifying the ridiculous copyright laws we now have in the US.
2:29:26 PM 
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O'Reilly publish SVG book. J. David Eisenberg has written SVG Essentials, published by O'Reilly & Associates this month. [xmlhack]
I will now have the time to learn/master this.
2:23:55 PM
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JDS Uniphase. "A virtual Blockbuster video in my living room with a limitless inventory." [The Motley Fool]
Being able to view any movie, any time, and pay a small fee for the priviledge would sure be nice, as it would help me to eliminate much of the clutter that currently inhabits much of my life.
2:21:08 PM
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Tooling around: Looking at the success of sms as a cultural means of communicating person2person, it makes imminent sense to create a Radio tool that allow a publishing to a predetermined list of sms numbers. Perhaps even a subscription interface....... [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
sliding to the side... This would serve as an excellent means of getting information in the field to people who have a high need to know the latest and greatest information. Disaster releif and battlefields come to mind, especially when when combined with a good Text to speech program, so that urgency can be communicated as well.
2:14:32 PM
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That was weird... either I just got deja Vu... Or it's the same cat cloned.
2:01:28 PM
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Editors' Newswire for 14 February, 2002. Newswire stories, including: W3C Sets Record Straight on New Web Services Alliance; Dublin Core (DC) environment interest group; Graphical Stylesheets: Using XSLT to Generate SVG; DocBook to LaTeX using Perl. [xmlhack]
(This is the thread I lost earlier)
Using XSLT to deliver dynamic data to users via SVG should have far reaching effects in terms of users being able to aggregate and view the data of their choice (financials, academic or sport performance) in a highly dynamic manner that is user customizable in real time. Don't think so? this is how Michael Bloomberg built his empire, by delivering the "Bloomberg Box" that allowed traders to view the market in near real time.
6:24:35 AM
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Frustration: I just lost five paragraphs of text, as I clicked a link lower on the page when coming back to this window, which radio happily jumped to, thereby wiping out my thoughts. Not good.
5:55:23 AM
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David Rockefeller. "Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
5:36:40 AM
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Senate debates national voting rules. House has passed a similar bill aimed at avoiding repeat of 2000 presidential election. Money Markets [USA Today : Front Page]
It was my understanding that the individual states had control over how their representatives were sent to the electoral college. For the Senate to establish a set of rules that covers this appears to be a slippery slope.
5:34:57 AM
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