Miniscule, David Attenborough and that's about it except for an occasional old movie like "St Louis Blues" which I enjoyed Saturday night. Recently read Dombey and Son.

*The internet is interactive, which has got to make it a whole lot more appealing, with Twitter, Facebook, OLO and all sorts of other stuff.*

Well speak for yourself there, Ludwig. Personally I'll leave the
birds to do the tweeting :) I'm not into Facebook either, as too
much personal data is being misused.

I think its just about being more selective, choice lets us do that.
On Saturday for instance, I scanned the Ipad tv update, which makes
checking programmes so easy. There was a programme which did the
full factory tour of Porches in Germany being manufactured, so I
watched it. Wow, I found it fascinating! The technology being employed
now to make these kinds of products, is just frigging amazing.
Manufacturing is just becoming ever more specialised and automated,
with less and less physical labour involved. No wonder the Germans
are doing so well, they build machines which make things. It also
shows why the days of Australian manufacturing as it was, assembling
things with some spanners and hammers, are well and truly over.

<< Well speak for yourself there, Ludwig. >>

Not just speaking for myself, Yabby. Twitter and Facebook are huge, and that’s just the start. The internet is so enormous that you’ve got to wonder how TV has hung in there so successfully.

Sure, there is still plenty to watch on the old box and most people still do, but to a lesser extent than they used to. There surely must have been a big decline in TV viewing, but the TV stations and companies don’t seem to have suffered from it at all.

It doesn’t make sense. What am I missing here?

Yair, there is still some damn good TV viewing out there.

Watched 4 Corners and Q&A tonite.

Now THAT'S worthwhile television!

Honestly, I am convinced that personal computers will replace TV within the next 10 years. I have stopped watching tv 5 or 6 years ago, when I realized I could watch movies online and without commercial break!