When your TV is a docking station, who needs a Tivo (or Boxee)?
Posted by Bryan Zug - 2009/03/01
At lunch with Brian Dorsey last week, I noted how I was using my TV as more of a docking station these days.
A couple of years ago I made my way over to “Mantasyland“, and bought a 50 foot SVGA cable and some 1/8″ stereo jack extensions to set things up.
While I’ve been doing the obvious Boxee/Hulu/Netflix things with it, I found myself doing something even a bit more interesting this week.
I’ve been using MindMeister, the online collaborative mind mapping tool, to help me track all of those video links that I really want to watch, but never get time to throughout the day.
With MindMeister, I can just email or tweet things into my main map (which I call “Bryan’s Brain”) — so I get a great list of stuff to watch, without interrupting my flow at all.
So every night, I have this node of great video content that my FOAF filter has been saying I should pay attention to — things from my tweeps and their friends — along with stuff I find interesting as I graze the interwebs.
Subjects range from art to tech to culture to philosophy to biz, etc. When you look at it all, it’s like a free graduate education in a bunch of interesting stuff.
In thinking about it a bit this AM, it seems like this “To Watch” list is much more interesting than anything Boxee or Tivo could ever deliver.
I’m thinking about a routine where, once the kids are in bed, we might just open this node and get our brains on.
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