Luci Sandor’s blog

AT&T launched its IPTV thing, U-verse. I am the perfect customer, spending already all my communication and media budget on Internet stuff, so I hurried to learn the news. The news is that AT&T offer is so digital, so electronic, so 2.0 that you cannot actually learn what’s in it or order it through the Internet. The website looks pathetic and horribly vague. Twenty dollars for some tens of preachers (nicely packaged as “local stations”) and series channels?
You can even “customize” the basic package, but I’d bet that it means you can only add stuff and not removing the preachers. These days, its “concurrent” from Verizon charges 10 USD a month for TV5, a station which is free to receive and distribute, as if Verizon tries to be sure nobody gets it.
You also have to get Internet from them and the small print tells that they’re going to charge you like hell after the first 12 months. The Internet connection is branded Yahoo!, meaning that the Internet giant guarantees, as they did with the World Cup, that irrelevance will prevail.

The world received two shocks from Microsoft this week.

First Scoble announced he quits. The majority of the blog readers know who is Scoble, that’s the pink chubby guy who claimed he has a blog when he had a link farm, who claimed he gave information to the grassroots when he was bitching like a teleshopping hysterical woman yelling New! Improved! (more…)