Sunday, March 09, 2003

Another ReplayTV Convert. Well, I'm certainly doing my part to maintain SonicBlue's bottom line. Bryce Yehl just bought a ReplayTV 5040 and it's already having an effect on him: "In spite of the fact that I'm already used to watching my favorites shows on my own schedule, I do see my viewing habits changing. It's that Magic Pause Button. I like it. A lot." Even better, he's pointed me to ReplayPC and QVision, two utilities for extracting shows from newer Replays to your PC. I've ordered a Linksys WET11 Bridge so when it gets here, I'll have to try these out. I figure I should be able to pull a couple of shows off the new Replay, convert their formats, and load them on my Archos Multimedia Jukebox to go. Then when we go on vacation, I can take music and video with us! [The Shifted Librarian] comment [] 11:00:59 AM     World of Ends: What the Internet Is. Doc Searls and David Weinberger have written an essay entitled World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. This is a must read for anyone trying to interpret the Internet (amazing, isn't it, that after all these years it still isn't well understood). There are some important lessons for implementors of eGovernment, public policy wonks, and elected officials. Jerry Mechling ought to make it pre-requisite reading for his Eight Imperatives workshops at the Kennedy School. (That reminds me: Dave Winer and Jerry need to get togther--I'll have to send a note.) [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] comment [] 9:39:55 AM     Werblog: Why blogging isn't a fad. Why blogging isn't a fad Arnold Kling offers one of the best explanations I've seen of the value of blogging as a distributed information filtering mechanism. "This filtering process makes all of us more efficient. Information with low value does not travel far. Information with high general value tends to travel the farthest. Information with low general value but high local value tends to reach interested people but then die out because as it gets passed along its value decays below the threshold. Everyone tends to receive information with a high value to them, and they avoid having to read information that has low value to them." [via Werblog] I guess this item itself has high general value within the local domain of bloggers who blog about blogging. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio] comment [] 9:32:15 AM

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