Friday, February 23, 2007
Does the general illuminate the specific?
Wondering out loud at Public Media 2007... Are you ready to call public broadcasting (or public television or public radio) "public media"? Tag: publicmedia.
Tag this spectrum
The ITFS Opportunity looks at a largely ignored but highly potentiated hunk of spectrum just above the 2.4GHz wi-fi band.
The analog-digital TV transition
James Robertson, responding to what I wrote yesterday about the subject, says Scoble is right that analog TV will be turned off in 2009. Specifically, The problem is that anyone who believes this will actually happen is smoking crack.
Good stuff, that crack.
Even for old analog-only TVs, there are plenty of workarounds, including plain old cable TV. A very small minority of viewers today get their TV from antennas. And if that's how Scoble's dad gets his analog TV, all he'll have to do is get a converter that turns his digital TV to analog. There will be plenty of those around by February 2009.
Plus, for what it's worth, I don't see much doubt, among the broadcast execs and engineers I've been talking to, that the transition won't happen.
Here it comes
With announcements like OpenID and CardSpace interoperability and AOL's support for OpenID only a few weeks old, I think that we're getting very close to the identity "big bang" that Kim Cameron talks about.
His Are You a Product or a Brand? is an interesting post too. I think I'm neither, but the distinction Phil makes is a helpful one.
It's still a boring buzzphrase
If you remember one thing I say today, remember this: Social media is underhyped. That's Tom Gerace, CEO of Gather.com, in a speech he's giving now.
Look up
SkyMap.org is an interactive planetarium in a browser. Way cool. It even has APIs. Hat tip to JD Lasica for the pointage.