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My mum’s media mash-up May 26, 2009

Posted by richard in : Technology , trackback

MY mum does herself down.

Doesn’t do modern technology, she always says. Which I know is plain wrong.

my_mum_media_mash_upRevealed, this weekend, by yet another nugget she let slip.

We were watching Sky News. Seeing which were the latest MPs to be collared that morning. And, got chatting.

‘I’m always switching between the news channels to get what I want,’ she said. ‘When Sky starts repeating, I’ll go onto BBC News, ITN, Teletext… Oh, and I’m always using the Red Button. And I usually also…’

And so she went on.

Goodness! Here was a real life news mash-up, in action! My mum is employing personalisation filters I’d have to spend weeks in, say, Yahoo! Pipes replicating.

my_mum_media_mash_up_2Probably even then wouldn’t approach her level of sophistication and finesse, either.

Multiple news feeds from disparate sources, all made dynamically bespoke in to-the-second real time? I know it’s happening every single day in one West Midlands house. And I’m uber-wowed by it.

Which means, that’s it. From now on, I’m going to help my mum plug into technology. Introduce yet more sources for her to plug into.
For, she ‘gets’ it. All I need to do is help feed her canny filters…

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