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A friend recommended to me a book by Umberto Eco, and as I was searching the web for information on him, I came across this interview with him from 1995. He talks about the new media, such as the Internet, and how it's important to have a system for filtering the deluge of information that comes in every day so you can pick out what's important to you. Some parts of the interview seem oddly prescient, such as his attitudes toward email. Others seem remarkably apt observations—though Mr. Eco did not know much about the Internet at the time of this interview, he knew a lot about human nature and that enabled him to make some rather insightful observations.

I think I'm going to have to find me some of his books.

DVD Tracks…looks pretty neat!

I've just found a really neat website. It was featured on Slashdot back in March; I don't know how I missed it…maybe I just wasn't interested enough back then. But anyway, the idea of the thing comes from a Roger Ebert column in which he suggested that movie viewers and others try recording their own commentary for various films, and upload them to the site so that people could download and listen to them while viewing the movie.

And so this website, DVD Tracks, came into being to promote that very thing. It looks like a pretty neat idea, and already I'm considering doing a commentary or two on a movie for which I might have something to say. Maybe you could do the same.