On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Brian
<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>
wrote:
I propose a cheap cellphone-sized device (OWPP)
whose only purpose is to
read Wikipedia.
That's probably both the wrong form (too small) and the wrong content
(too
flighty) for people permanently without access to
the Internet (who
presumably also are without access to television - otherwise why not beam
Wikipedia through whatever network carries the television signal?).
Wikipedia over TV would never work. There isn't the bandwidth for it.
So only broadcast a subset.
TV is a broadcast medium, that means you have to be
constantly sending
everything anyone could want (or, at least, sending it fairly
frequently, like teletext does).
Presumably there's a hard drive at the other end. On one channel broadcast
updates, on a second channel broadcast random articles weighted by relative
importance.
By the way, I'm not really sure what you mean by "TV is a broadcast
medium". But presumably anyone without Internet access but with TV access
is receiving the TV signal through a broadcast, so I can safely ignore this
nitpick.