Preemptive Nostalgia
My italk and isight arrived today; the former for podcasting and the latter for keeping up with friends and family while in Japan without the expensive phonebills (VOIP too). I’ve convinced kzi to do some podcasting about our travels with me, and I’m looking forward to experimenting with audio broadcasting.
But then I started to get worried. As the web evolves and broadband becomes ubiquitous (at least in Korea and Japan) the need for text-only disappears. People will move on to bigger and better… there are already thousands of podcasts and hundreds of video blogs available online right now. Throw in P2P and MMORPGS and suddenly the web becomes a cornucopia of moving images and blaring sound. I started to panic thinking about the possibility of losing, or having shoved to a small corner, the quiet library of text I’ve always enjoyed. That’s where the “realworld” is at now… libraries losing funding, Blockbuster on every other block, and 5000 channels available on television. Where is this paragraph going? I don’t know, but I don’t want to lose my textnet! Can I use aalib with links to render video in ascii? That might make me feel a little better.