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tvgohome for the first time tonight. As a friend described it, “As Monty Python is to the Smothers Brothers, tvgohome is to The Onion“.
The FAQ has a particularly funny bit: “Why use a JPEG for the listings instead of text?
Because I want precise control over the layout. And because it seriously annoys “real ale” Internet users who do all their browsing on text-based hand-held calculators, and that arouses me.”
now – it looks like I’m going to be teaching a class at McGill University in the fall. I’ll be doing a section of the Internet Design and Analysis course offered as part of McGill’s Graduate certificate in e-commerce program (Ed Bilodeau developed the curriculum and will teach the other section). I’m actually pretty excited about it, even though I won’t start until September.
published an interesting update on Minitel today. It’s interesting to note that as the internet moves from the desktop to other devices (in addition to the desktop, this ain’t no zero-sum game), these other environments (phones, PDAs, etc.) are quite similar to what minitel has always offered. Hmmm. Back to the future indeed.
From Shorewalker.com [aka David Walker]: Content management systems: short-lived satisfaction. Quote – “But modern, twenty-first century Internet technology means that any medium-sized organisation with Web ambitions can now pour a seven-digit sum of money straight down the hole almost instantly.”
seem to have forgotten about RU Sirius, but (as I’ve said before) when he’s on, he’s really on – he has a very deep and layered view of “technoculture” and the ascendence of the Internet. Wired News has published an interview with RU, A Sirius View From the Fringe. It’s very interesting to read how much more serious and even a little disillusioned he is now. He said of his presidential race, “I wind up reaching the same types of outsiders and freaks that I always do.”
