Comments on: User Generated Content in the New Media http://www.futurist.com/2008/01/10/user-generated-content-in-the-new-media/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ediblebed http://www.futurist.com/2008/01/10/user-generated-content-in-the-new-media/#comment-45775 Ediblebed Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:13 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2008/01/10/user-generated-content-in-the-new-media/#comment-45775 To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of Lawrence, Kan. Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it, which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally, if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel, a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink gin and laugh themselves silly. -- Dave Barry, "Won't It Be Just Great Owning Our Own Phones?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ebloggy.com/emanuelcamposok To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone
company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in
turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a
loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of
Lawrence, Kan.

Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it
suspects you’re going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer
above it, which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it,
until finally, if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears
and tell your closest friend about a sordid incident from your past
involving a seedy motel, a neighbor’s spouse, an entire religious order, a
garden hose and six quarts of tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your
conversation into Edna’s loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on
the porch to listen and drink gin and laugh themselves silly.
– Dave Barry, “Won’t It Be Just Great Owning Our Own Phones?”

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]]> By: J Hill http://www.futurist.com/2008/01/10/user-generated-content-in-the-new-media/#comment-32180 J Hill Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:51:15 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2008/01/10/user-generated-content-in-the-new-media/#comment-32180 Glen, Wanted to ask if you had watched Current TV at all. I thought it wouldn't be good, and I was wrong. It is the most interesting new thing I have seen on TV. Felt fresh. If you havn't, I recommend it. Jason Glen,
Wanted to ask if you had watched Current TV at all. I thought it wouldn’t be good, and I was wrong. It is the most interesting new thing I have seen on TV. Felt fresh. If you havn’t, I recommend it.
Jason

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