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Imagine a current events show that you watched every night online, which included investigations & interviews ... and wasn't a comedy.
Live events are still not good online. But the most glaring omission for me: the news. A serious online nightly news show would be good.
@_pius Yes. I used to do that a lot in the UK. Makes sense. Last Oscars I ended up going to a party at a movie theater a friend runs.
@_pius That makes sense: TV is still better at live events. But presumably that will go away as it stops being the primary platform?
This says a lot about me, but my question about cord-cutting is: what happens to C-SPAN? It provides an important service. Does it go away?
Cable TV might still be worth it to you if you really, really, really like sport. But it's only a matter of time before that's online too.
I haven't had cable TV since I moved to the US, and I've never missed it. Only annoyance is Apple TV channels that require you to have one.
@sarahdessen Absolutely terrifying. I'm so, so glad she's okay. And well done.
@unreasonable Highly depends on situation. Often you will have support from legacy investors - and early investments are often in team.
@econproph I agree. So here's the big thing that I think needs to happen: professors _must_ be empowered to buy their own tools.
@econproph Always going to be true - so the key is to make openness a side effect, and concentrate on building an awesome experience.
@econproph The #indieweb community has been great at creating an ecosystem. Working code over mailing lists and standards bodies.
@econproph Trick with that, from experience, is that trying to create a cross-tool standard up front is a black hole. Need 2 or 3 tools 1st.
I don't think institutions can or should, generally, build their own software. But educators must be a tighter part of the conversation.
Blackboard's software is terrible. Horrible architecture, terrible service, closed in every way possible. EdTech needs more open solutions.
The question for institutions: if they need software like Blackboard, who will build it, and why?
Institutions are - rightly - turning to open source solutions to escape from lock-in at high licensing cost. It's eating Blackboard's lunch.
Relatively high risk and long decision times drive Blackboard's licensing costs up. Most of their revenue is from corporate institutions.
Blackboard is expensive - but it has to be. Long sales cycles and bespoke university requirements lead to larger capital requirements.
@bitoclass Yuck. I'm sorry! I think you're a victim of relentless cloudification here. Is xbmc any good?
@jf Cats would start their own podcast, but they don't want to deal with all the complaints about their tiny mewing voices.
@_tessr I've been working with tar for well over a decade and this might be the first mnemonic that actually works for me!
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