Five For Friday

Months ago, Rick Mahn asked me to list 5 things I was thankful for. Friday seems like an appropriate day to respond:

  1. Red Stag‘s Mac & Cheese for lunch.
  2. Re-arranging my office making both a cozy reading corner and a usable coffee-making corner. (Finally)
  3. Ruby.1
  4. You.
  5. Checking one more thing off the To-Do list calendar.

1. There’s a longer post in here about being productive in 2 hours. Ruby is the second language I’ve written in (the first was RealBasic, years ago) where I can solve a problem and start a new problem in the course of just 2 hours. Add a few well structured Google searches and the number of solved problems increases dramatically. Happiness.

My Cable Access Prediction Coming True

“A provision of a law passed by the [California] Legislature in 2006, which took effect Thursday, allows cable television providers the option of dropping their long-standing obligation of providing free studios, equipment and training to the public.” – Reed Johnson , LA Times

Three years ago, I wrote: “Add Cable Public Access to the Endangered Species List”

Personally, I’ve been a cable-free household for at least 5 years – and community access programming isn’t broadcast over the air (a much bigger issue – from my perspective). Thankfully, there are ways to receive my community-created media without purchasing a $100/mn Triple Play package….I can just load up MNstories or any number of reading lists in Cullect.

It feels ironic that as cable companies shed their obligations to support community access, the relevance and proliferation of community media is increasing. While the inverse is true of cable.