Fwd: Telecom competition (was Re: ECO: Saying nay to doomsayers)

From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 23:27:41 MDT


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-crw.

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> From: Christopher Whipple <crw@well.com>
> Date: Sun Aug 04, 2002 04:31:01 PM US/Eastern
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Fwd: Telecom competition (was Re: ECO: Saying nay to
> doomsayers)
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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>
>> 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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