[lit-ideas] Re: Life Magazine

Does anyone have any experience with satellite TV over the Internet?  It seems 
too good to be true...

http://www.watchtvonpc.org/



-----Original Message-----
>From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2007 6:58 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Life Magazine
>
>Andreas, as usual, is wrong in an interesting way. Which is way better than 
>being right in a boring way.
>
>> The demise of newspapers and magazines is accelerating.
>
>> To this, you can add the demise of the web. Yep, the web. Remember the web?
>
>> I met with Yahoo a few weeks ago in LA and they told me that the UK, more 
>> people use Yahoo 
>on PDAs than with desktop computers. Yahoo and others are retooling their 
>websites so these 
>are accessible via PDAs. That means... no more web design that makes sense on 
>a large 
>screen. High resolution photos, lots of graphics, etc., is out due to the 
>bandwidth limits 
>for PDAs. <
>
>I'd call it the return of web, not demise. The original point of HTML was 
>device independence. Instead of formatting text to say certain size of paper 
>like pdf, a markup language specifies the structure and lets the device format 
>it for the screen. Which is handy given that screens range from 34" TVs to 
>PDAs. This is a bad thing for bells-and-whistles web design. Which in itself 
>is a good thing. More content, less gimmicks.
>
>Someone, might have been Andreas, summed up blogs as what web was supposed to 
>be before we got carried away with all the eye candy. Same with PDA/Mobile 
>sites.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Teemu
>Helsinki, Finland
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