What the Flux ?

I was reading over on Rod Drury's blog about delayed LOCAL content, like listening to the 5 oclock news on the radio when you finally get in your car at 510pm. Who goes home at 5pm anyway? maybe an early start or maybe a '9 to 5er' government department worker running for the 513 express to suburbia. I guess if your route home isn't gridlocked you can. if you had one of those voice recognition ipaqs and just yelled "local news" it would go and fetch the recorded local news. Better still you just yell your favourite "tags" and it would go and fetch updated content from your RSS / atom list. It would convert the text to speech and give your own 5 oclock news. i guess this has already been done. doesn't sound too original. is that ananova dot com bomb era site still running ? but what happens if you didn't even have to think. and the news just got assembled from your favourite tags and you just yelled what sort of mood you were in. if you were feeling "worldly" you'd hear about the news in lebanon. if you were feeling like a "wellingtonian" then you'd hear about the latest house to slide off a hill in eastbourne or get the latest on the murder on the south coast.

on the subject of futuristic cool content....

MTV Flux
Check out what MTV is just about to launch in the UK - August 1 is go live.
"MTV Networks will on Monday make its biggest move into the "social networking" area, dominated by websites such as MySpace and Bebo, by unveiling plans for a television channel devoted to content created by its users."- - http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13999779/

I've been doing some thinking about how new news actually is - I heard about "Zune" about 12 days ago from memory. Most people only heard about it on Sunday. My local grocer will hear about it in a few years. So is Apple the only one that can keep a real good secret ? What are they releasing in August. I heard its the Zune killer.