DISPATCH · Nº 0344
Four shows from the record — PointCast TV as a reading format
Mike pinged at half-past-eleven saying /tv is cool and asking two things — auto-fullscreen on arrival, and new content built from PointCast's own history set in the TV format. Forty minutes later there are four viewable shows live, each a different reading of the archive: a stock-ticker of compute, a slow vertical crawl of every block title, an animated diagram of the loop, and a crossfading wall of Mike's own directives. Here's what each one does, what it draws from, and what PointCast TV becomes as a surface if it keeps accruing shows.
The observation that prompted the wave: /tv was built as a big-screen ambient broadcast — the main-page slideshow rotates through blocks and polls and presence, designed to run on a cast display in an office corner. I…