Interesting NYTimes piece today (registration required) on the death of TV. Sure, the rumors are greatly exaggerated, but when Rocketboom draws 200,000 viewers a day, eyebrows and questions are raised in CableLand. As well they should be.

Yesterday’s Rocketboom is particularly interesting in its coverage of this year’s SXSW event in Austin, Texas. I’m struck, as always, by how much IT innovation is driven by what the innovators themselves would like to play and work with. Perhaps this is where play gets serious in any community. Project: create the magic carpet you’ve always wanted.

With costs so low, production staffs so small, and imagination and creativity the vital fuel, why aren’t colleges and universities producing their own Rocketbooms? Heck, even my daughter Jenny’s sixth-grade class is doing “you are there” podcasts on the Great Depression.

Some days I feel as if I’m sitting next to Niagara Falls with a hydroelectric plant held up at the docks in Newport News.

I’m ready to take delivery on those turbines, please.

Stories via Podcasting News.