A stupid idea, stupidly done
In amongst my podcasts, iTunes downloaded three “PDFcasts”, two from Make Magazine and one from PilotCast. Of all the ways that people on the Internet have found to re-implement the same basic idea as Usenet, this has got to be the worst. If I wanted content that I had to read on my computer, what’s wrong with a web page? Or better yet, an RSS feed for a web page. Or an email list. Or Usenet.
April 30th, 2007 at 23:08 GMT
I think i would like to prosecute these people for crimes against humanity.
April 30th, 2007 at 23:25 GMT
I’d love someone to implement a download of Usenet messages on my iPod.
April 30th, 2007 at 23:51 GMT
@JoAnne - that’d be great! Imagine — Usenet, the original ‘read-only’ medium!
May 1st, 2007 at 00:14 GMT
It shouldn’t be too hard - just enable disk use, and have a script to dump stuff in /Volumes/Paul’s_iPod/Notes.
May 1st, 2007 at 22:45 GMT
Hm, would I be able to read from the iPod, though, while sitting at the dentist’s office or whatever? That’s the thing I’d want.
Or even run it through a text-to-speech engine, so I could listen to newsgroups while on the treadmill. Maybe include email too?
Yeah, right. Like I need another reason to want to kill top-posters and overquoters and spammers.