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Juiced about Joost


At a time when TVNZ are in disarray and I (for one) am confused about what they are trying to achieve I am delighted to be part of the Joost beta trial. It seems to be the way TV will be heading. My only problem is that it seems to eat my miserly Telecom Xtra bandwidth. There's a limit to the number of times a month I can keep cranking up my plan. How's that for an example of how two rusty old institutions have shown themselves unable to be nimble enough to cope with the speed of change in today's communications market.

Irnoically I am reading In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore.

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