Dave says: "I want a way to do a query on DirecTv's listings. Show me all commercial-free movies on channels I subscribe to airing in the next 30 days that were nominated for or won an Academy Award." And this is exactly where the axis of interactivity lies between traditional broadcasters and whatever it is we do. The European high court recently passed a series of laws determining TV listings are 'content' until the day of broadcast when the information suddenly necomes 'news'. Perhaps we can turn the tables here, create our own TV Guide, with our own ratings system. Weblogs certainly have all this functionality debugged and working. Think of the possibilities of producing xml feeds to achieve scenarios like the one Dave wants. Feed it to your TiVo, RePlay, VCR, Blog, email etc. This has been one of the main reasons I'm so into the Calendar plugin. Must think more now. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

OK, so we need the following:

1. A feed from either TV guide (in the US anyway) or your provider that gives us a base for what  is going to be on.
2. A feed to pull from so that we can get a list of award winning films (let's include academy Awards, Golden Globes, Cannes Palm d'Orr, SAG, etc)
3. Next we need  aset of rules or GREP patterns that will help sort through the data, culling films that do not match up to an award win.
4. Do you want to have a list of favorite Actors, Screenwriters, Composers,  Characters, genres, or Directors? Then we need another optional list that serves to weight what gets listed, effectively moderating the list.
   Example: You hate Alan Smithee (Director) [-5], Love Theo Sbian (actor) [+4], Sid Matographer (Cinematographer) [+2] and dislike Westerns [-1]. If these three worked on a western, themed film  together, you would see it scored as a [0]. If the director worked on a western witha bunch of people that you did ot rate [0], it would almost never show up [-6] in your directory.

Perhaps I've taken this too far and have been reading too much Slashdot. Ah well.

8:57:49 AM    

Pirate TV is hitting Iran, hard. [NY Times registration required]

It would be great if someone would step in and support this effort, as the costs are mounting, but anyone who did would likely end up on a hit list. This is a fantastic way of winning over hearts and minds, and it is difficult to stop. I hope someone steps in and helps him out.

8:21:24 AM