July 02, 2006
The Tipping Point for TV
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I think as human beings, it's our nature to consider the world essentially static. Of course, change is happening all the time, but we tend to comprehend it in gulps rather than sips. Such was the feeling I had the other day when I installed an RSS reader on my Windows Media Center PC. I have a Mac, iPod, etc. so didn't think much about it, but when I called up Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom on my plasma using only a remote, it suddenly struck me just how big a change is coming from the whole YouTube/Google Video/Vlogging phenomenon. Net neutrality debates aside, anyone on a shoestring budget can easily create and now distribute their programming, creating their own "network." I don't think we'll be throwing out the Tivo just yet, but the question now is when, not if... |







