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2003-01-21

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New & very much improvable: rsstv — das üblicherweise in DACH-Landen wohlfeilst erhältliche Fernsehprogramm in RSS-Form mit Filteroption.

Ernüchternde Erkenntnis: Man mag suchen wie man will, allzuviel Gutes findet man trotz allem nicht.

2003-01-21-rsstv

Stop Motion Studies — Weirdly appealing.

2003-01-21-stopMo

Telecom undone — a cautionary tale — "And what about those network-free competitors themselves? Take a company like Z-Tel, founded and run by lawyers, bankers, management consultants, and an antitrust litigator. Such companies have brought to telecom the same talents that Enron brought to electricity. They build networks out of paper, and whatever actual money they invest is poured into complex software and computer systems developed and optimized for playing the regulatory game."

2003-01-21-teledone

"Why does radio sound [...] like it's been prepped, packaged and served up in easy-to-digest bites, like tiny bits of Spam stuck on toothpicks?"

"Who needs radio anymore? You do, when it's good. Because there is something that radio can do that you can never do. Sure, you can download your entire CD collection onto your iPod and walk around with it. But those are the songs in your library, and even in random play there is a certain joyless satiety to that. The magic of radio long has been and will continue to be: You're alone in your car, flipping the dial, and, every so often, at exactly the right moment, exactly the right song comes on the radio. It makes you slap the steering wheel with happiness. The serendipity is spellbinding."

2003-01-21-fmxm