An Editor

I’m amazed at how much material on my computer gets unread, or unused. There’s much work in putting together the collection of crap I have on my computer, but I spend so little time reviewing it. Although I know I have the option of skimming over the material and not saving it on to my computer, I know that in some point of time that I want to reminisce on an old photo (picture), or idea in this pdf.

This is disability of mine, I’ll blame on the absence of an editor. Someone who knows what I want to read or do. I think there is a huge market for some sort of computer program to already know what you want and present it in some sort of portal for us to see. It’s a bit like the other iterations of media like the internet, radio, television, and print that tells us what to read, based on the decisions of an editor. If that program were to be developed we’d be able to boast the individually customized encyclopedias in each of our computers.

It must be one of the greatest shams of this internet generation is Web 2.0, the community-driven internet.   Half the time, I believe the hardest work is highlight what is interesting for today’s audience. Sites that are more editorial like Slashdot or Yahoo either rely on full time editors or technologies to aid their  continually changing homepages.

I will say though, that I see a market for home servers. Those are the networked hard drives many set up to consolidate the MP3 collections fragmented across multiple computers in a household. The entire infrastructure and software is quite complicated to set up in contrast to Apple’s philosophy (which is supposed to represent the contemporary skill set). But I bet there sure is a market for these machines. With all those smaller devices, multiple computers, laptops, netbooks, video consoles, there has to be a way to synchronize data beyond the typical physical mediums (CD’s, thumbdrives, etc.). I’ll say that if someone develops a computer, small enough like the barebones media center PC’s and quiet enough, with the software included to be a media center and be a homeserver, that’d be pretty neat. I know many opt for Linux or BSD for a free solution, but there is no end-all, be-all guide on setting one of these things up.