Hope everyone had a great long weekend! Here are my weekly notes:
- Sharon and I went to check out Symphony Under the Sky on Saturday! It was fantastic. My photoset is here.
- Awesome post from xkcd: Urinal protocol vulnerability.
- Nine surprisingly useful single serving sites. Lots more in the comments.
- Interesting article from Time: Jay Leno is the Future of TV. Seriously. Iām looking forward to his show.
- This is the kind of thing that makes the Internet great ā Backblaze has posted a detailed inventory list and instructions on how to build your very own 67 terabyte 4U server for less than $8000 USD. Also shows you how drastically costs have come down.
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The reality is that Jay’s new show is his old show in a new slot, or at least that’s what NBC is relying on for initial ratings – they can’t be kidding themselves that Jay will do something widely different (and the announcements to-date don’t suggest differently with any significance). I’ll still watch CSI:NY, The Mentalist, etc. and care more if I miss one of those than if I miss any ‘late-show’ episode.
‘Network’ television is an aging business format, and I’d like to know how many people watch it over cable/satelite media now. To me, it feels like the Networks are hanging on for dear life and it will only take one other major disruption (like the writers’ strike which was curiously inclued issues about real new media royalties) to pull them into the ooze.
By ooze I mean the larger set of channels which is harder to navigate without modern tools. As someone coming from the UK, I can say that the US has long been viewed as the country of 100s of channels compared to the UK’s 4 (before UK satelite/cable took hold). The reality is that the US really only has the 4 major networks, and it makes life easy to just pick 1 of 4 (or record no more than 4 š ). It may be nice to keep it that simple, while trickling in the odd show from a niche channel. Sheep like direction – you have to herd them together to maximise the juice.