First of all, here’s my nominee for hook-up of the year:

Yahoo and TiVo announced a deal today that will connect Yahoo’s vast online service to TiVo’s set-top boxes, which, in addition to recording television programs, have a largely unused capability to connect to the Internet.

The deal will allow TiVo, which has been struggling to differentiate its service from generic video recorders offered by cable and satellite companies, to offer a range of content and services linked to the Internet.

I’m sure it will monetize the aggregation of converging transformative paradigms, but in the meantime, here’s what I want the result to be:

MyCrawl(TM).

Yahoo has glommed onto RSS in the past year, and shows every sign of being a True Believer. So what I want from my Yahoo-enabled TiVo is a customizable crawl at the bottom of my TV screen.

Except instead of your CNN-style headlines (“BUSH APPROVAL IN SINGLE DIGITS … CHENEY CAUGHT ON CAMERA DROPPING BABY CHICKS INTO MOULINEX, BLAMES ‘LIBERAL MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN’…”), it would be a fully customizable RSS feed.

I could control the number of lines displayed, and highlight any headline to call up the full article within that portion of the screen. My daughter would be able to keep watching Mighty Machines, Hi 5 and Peep and the Big Wide World, and I could keep from going slowly mad.

(I would pay extra to have James Earl Jones intone “This… is RSS” at startup.)

While I’m at it, here’s one more thing on my wish list: a “blog this” button that would create a draft post in my blog with either the link and text of the news post displayed at the time, or the name, episode and description of the TV show airing at the same time.