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title: The RSS Paradox
author: Tris
date: 2004-06-15
url: https://www.trishussey.com/the-rss-paradox/
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Here's the gist.  RSS allows people to find obscure bits of data.  Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) let people easily record things they'd like to watch.  The end result very well could be a future where you find and record programs completely on your own time frame.  Want to watch CSI at 7 instead of 9?  Have your PVR record it along with a special interview you found listed on your CSI webfeed.

Could be.

[The RSS Paradox](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1612399,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594): "RSS and PVRs are two acronyms on a collision course, and the resulting service fabric may have a revolutionary impact that recalls the '60s, says eWEEK's Steve Gillmor.

A few weeks ago, the SciFi Channel broadcast a four-part miniseries involving time travel. I am a sucker for time-travel stories, to a certain point.
That point is where the designated deliverer of exposition calls up the Great Guiding Principle of time-travel projects, wherein the immutable laws of screwing around with time dictate that nothing can be changed in the past, lest the universe be rented because the character's dog would therefore never be born, leading to cascading series of unintended consequences such as incomprehensible run-on sentences like this one.
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