From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 14:31:01 MDT
I sent this a couple days ago and it hasn't come through yet. My
apologies if some of you are getting this twice.
-crw.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Christopher Whipple <crw@well.com>
> Date: Fri Aug 02, 2002 06:48:16 PM US/Eastern
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Telecom competition (was Re: ECO: Saying nay to doomsayers)
>
>
> On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>>> For instance, would you rather:
>>> 1) Go to "tv://cnn.com" and be presented instantaneously with a
>>> fullscreen HDTV-quality pointcast of the night's headlines, as
>>> personalized for your interests;
>>
>>
>> The personalization agents should scan all the worlds news feeds and
>> web sites and present me with news. I am not a consumer for some one
>> source's pap. CNN is egregiously offensive imho.
>>
>
> Amen, re: CNN. Add FoxNews and MSNBC. Unlike the masses, I don't need
> my news to also be my entertainment, thankyouverymuch.
>
> The good news is there are online services currently available that
> seem to be antecedents to what you're describing.
>
> Most notably, http://news.google.com, though still in beta, it's
> amazing.
>
> And for technology news, my current favorite is
> http://www.dailyrotation.com, which allows you to pick which news
> sources you want to monitor and it keeps that information in a cookie
> so that each subsequent visit to the page displays your own personal
> tech news-sheet.
>
> Also, Mozilla has recently implemented tab-group bookmarking... while
> not as elegant as the two previous solutions, is still pretty darn cool.
>
> -crw.
>
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