It’s a new day for broadcast. Control of the experience, at least entertainment-wise, has been stripped out of the hands of a few, offered to the many. It may be hard to grasp the end of television, because it is still here, right in front of us. What else do you do with 250 channels other than watch it.
If I could see live music and sports from my sofa, I wouldn’t probably pay much attention to TV at all. Which is why TV, for all it’s desire to be a greater than format, is only just a lighted box with moving pictures, just like your laptop, like your computer.
I can imagine where they converge. It seems more and more obvious with each new experience discovering not just what some 12 people decided on different weekdays FOR ME, but what all of my friends and their freinds decided. Social networking can only improve from here, but the slight glimpse of what it will bring is kinda breathless.
Twitter annoys me. It does. However, in participating, it has redefined how I look towards others and how truly much more interesting their lives are than any ass on TV, who are there because they want to be on TV. It is true that you get out of it what you put into it. Twitter is your own tube, a personal broadcast system.
You can tune into whoever you like, 140 characters at a time on Twitter. Tune in further with Facebook, maybe a few music sites to share with. BTW, why doesn’t Facebook have a introduction tool that makes sense.
I am done with television. I am tempted by HBO comedies and series, an old Food channel habit and the occasional documentary that could only be found on TV’s darker reaches. BUT, those few things are not worth holding on.
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