What was life like before Tivo? This week I was able to watch all my shows without having to wait for summer repeats. When I turned the water on in the kitchen sink and missed dialog, I was able to rewind instead of saying “what did he say? WHAT DID HE SAY!???” Life is good.

If you’re Jamie Kellner, though, you’d tend to disagree. It’s an old story, but it’s finally starting to hit home now that I can skip commercials at 3 different speeds.

As it turns out, it’s likely that Tivo will wind up having a negative impact on the viewing American public in the long run. That is, if you subscribe to what Jamie presents here or here . You may not want to agree but I’ll be impressed if you can read it with an open mind and think seriously about the impact if what he suggests is true.

Of course, there are always voices on the other side of the argument, like this guy. Now I don’t mean to be a bitch here (comes naturally) but is there really any need to attack the character of a perfectly nice businessman by calling names? To me, that’s just covering up for not having a strong enough argument with DATA to back it up. But hey, I’m biased. I happen to like Jamie. Oh yeah, and I got over name calling when I moved to the big kid school without the swing set and teeter-totter.

On a totally unrelated note, help yourself to GoogleWhack and see what kind of damage you can do. Report back.