"Peter Cole" wrote in message
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I'm a big Pandora fan now. I never used it much in the last few years (or
its ilk) because I don't listen to music much at the computer. Then I got
a "Chumby" and put in the kitchen (with amplified speakers) for "WiFi
radio". We did the same thing with various MP3 players over the years, but
Pandora is a better solution in many ways.

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I'm completely switched over to streaming now, for both audio and video.
I'd do it just to get away from commercials. Oddly, I still subscribe to a
couple of magazines and a daily paper, and read real books. I suppose that
will change eventually.

I have cable TV, but what ruins it for me are all the advertisements. It
seems like the ads are getting more numerous and lengthier every year. Even
PBS is not as ad clean as it used to be. You cannot escape ads on TV and
radio since they are time bound whereas you can escape them on the computer
and the Internet. Yes, the ads are there, but you do not have to pay any
attention to them since they are not time bound.

I used to be a book reader and subscribed to several magazines, but since
getting a computer and an Internet connection all that has gone by the
wayside. I was a librarian in another lifetime, but I don't know what we
need libraries for anymore, let alone librarians. It is all on the Internet
now.

I never look at newspapers anymore, partly because they are nothing but
liberal screeds. I can get all my good solid conservative viewpoints now via
the Internet. I think the e-book will be the death knell of printed books.
Newspapers are already going the way of the Dodo Bird. Have any of you
looked at Time or Newsweek lately. They are a mere shadow of their former
selves.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota