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Photo: Chris MetcalfI got an email from a friend the other day who was asking for advice on digital TVs and what her options will be after next February, when digital tuners become mandatory. In answering her, I wrote, “We have cable and all of our equipment is analog. I don’t know what we’ll do yet. Most of the time that I used to spend watching TV, I now spend online. I don’t think the TV’s been on in over a week. Maybe we’ll just ditch it.”
Can a high speed Internet connection actually replace traditional media? I think it can, if you choose to consume media differently you did in the old days (up until about five years ago). For example, when I watch a news broadcast on network TV, I get a well prepared, professionally presented summary of the day’s news, complete with pundit commentary. However, I am often aware that the stories they’re reporting on are out of date, from having followed the same stories online. More importantly, I’ve read, watched or listened to many differing opinions on those stories during the course of the day, viewpoints that even a high quality TV program (and goodness knows there are few enough of those) leaves out of their coverage.
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Beginner Business, World Wide Web
Make Your Web Site Resonate
Free eBook by Skelliewag.orgThe ideas and philosophy at Skelliewag.org had a strong influence on the creation of the Internet Newcomer web site. I believe that simple design and compelling content are at the heart of any successful site.
If you are in the process of building a web site, or if you have one already, you owe it to yourself to read Skellie’s free eBook, The Simple Web. Here’s Skellie:
As bloggers and webmasters, we want most or all of these things: more visitors, more subscribers, more comments, more money, more inbound links, and more people saying good things about us. Our wants aren’t in question. It’s the how that gets us. It’s how that has us reading a dozen blogs a day, trying to find the answer (or at least a little piece of it).
You can stop searching, for now. The answer is in this eBook.
It’s true, you should read this book and try to put as much of it into practice as possible. I know I will. Here’s the link:
The Simple Web - eBook by Skelliewag.org (399KB PDF)
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