G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
| Re: The problem is... The way to win, is to make the 'next big thing'.
How about a nice, tivo like appliance based on mythtv, where everyone joins a mesh network to subscribe to a TV show. You an use the ratings, etc, join and leave shows, download and upload all the tv shows in your town as part of a group mind. Download, watch and rate and entire season. Do the same thing for music, like a slimedevices mp3 player. Or share DVD's with your friends and neighbors, rating good/bad/ehh.
Go down to what people want. It all comes down to exposure to what's available. Ask yourself how many Tivo users will ever go back to watching TV without a TV? I'd save very very few.
The internet is about empowerment. It's about making you, the individual, more powerful, more informed, better educated about the issues, and most importantly, a customer, not a consumer. It's about sticking it to the man, about doing things the way YOU want to do things. It's about non-conformity, it's about exposure to the world. It's the anti-thesis to the small minded isolationists. It's a big world, and we're only a small part of it. And as long as Americans are content to eat whats fed to them by the megacorps, we will continue to fall farther and farther behind. We have seen the enemy, it's not communism, it's not muslim extremist, it's not even canadians.. It is us.
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Flabby? pastey-skinned? riddled with phlebitis? Then you've got a good Republican body! So compare your lives to mine, and then kill yourself. |
