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End-of-week questions: Time Warner broadband and more
It’s the end of the week for me. I’m taking a day off tomorrow and don’t plan to be anywhere near the Internet during my time off. (This isn’t true at all, but I always tell myself that to make myself feel like I won’t be working.)
So the rest of the afternoon is filled with cramming in last-minute work, tying up loose ends and trying to clear out the inbox and my desk.
It’s around this time, usually on an Friday afternoon, that I get a little contemplative about the week and think about things I should have asked or done before the weekend snuck up on me.
Here’s what’s on my mind right now:
Did I make a huge mistake not going to Wednesday night’s City of Austin meeting related to the recent Time Warner Cable blow-up? I wasn’t feeling well, I knew that it wasn’t a story i was going to be assigned to for the paper and, frankly, I was exhausted and stressed from work I’d done the rest of the week. Was I shirking on my responsibility to keep pushing on this story?
At least there was video, so I don’t feel completely lost. Three videos, in fact. You can see the first one here:
To follow up on that, here’s a thought I’ve been having lately: if Time Warner’s justification for tiered pricing is the huge cost of extending its broadband infrastructure, wouldn’t it follow that some of those costs might be covered by the billions being set aside in broadband stimulus money? Wouldn’t that defray some of the costs and wouldn’t Time Warner Cable be one of the major players in that stimulus plan?
Other thoughts:
- Maybe it’s already happened before and I missed it, but has there been anything as devastating on Twitter than this recent death of a lovely child, who was beloved by many who never met her online?
- Maybe it’s the amount of work I’ve been doing in the evenings lately, but I’m losing the fight to keep up with our DVR. I’m having to delete shows to keep from running out of hard drive space.
- Last night’s “South Park” episode made me wonder how vulgar I can be on Twitter without crossing any lines. I tend to err on the side of trying not to lose my job.
- This week’s NPR segment on spam was made infinitely better with the help of Joshua Bear of Otherinbox.com, who let me pick his brain on the subject Monday morning.
- Will I have time to play these games over the weekend? “Resident Evil 5,” “Street Fighter 4,” “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars,” “Gardening Mama,” “Wrestlemania.”
- Why are AP and News Corp. making the news industry look so out of touch? AP was doubly in the wrong this week.
That’s it for now. See you all next week.
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