What is on TV tonight February 28, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Long Tail, UK , trackbackHow many times do you ask yourself - Is there anything on the telly? And no, the answer isn’t “a penguin”
Frankie Roberto has launched a “micro service” called “On TV tonight” which isn’t another listings site, it’s a highly individual review of one or two programmes - or none - which are on TV tonight, delivered by RSS at 4.00am each morning. Obviously it’s aimed at the UK only and you may be wondering “why should I take any notice of what this Roberto person thinks is worth watching?”
So all I can say is to try it. Don’t spend hardly any time on it, just subscribe to the RSS and let the daily post pop up in your reader along with everything else. Then after a week or two, see if it might just have been useful on occasion.
frankie roberto blog - Introducing… ‘on TV tonight’
On ‘Micropublishing’:
Another reason I’ve done this is as an experiment into a concept I’ve been thinking about which I’ve called ‘micropublishing’. The idea is to focus on publishing concentrated amounts of highly relevant content which fills a specific need of a time-poor audience. By being rich but small, the content can be aggregated and transferred across platforms to be consumed in any way that’s useful.
You may also be interrested in the page on Microformats.
Frankie himself told me :
I built a really lightweight website over the holidays, which I’m asking for feedback on. It’s basically a low-maintenance blog where I write short comments about what I think is worth watching on tv each night. If nothing’s on it will just say “nothing on tv tonight”. I can queue up entries in advance, and then it’s published each morning via RSS and on the site. My personal aim was to a) see if I can write valuable, well-written content on a regular basis and b) produce another small Ruby on Rails website.
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