It's interesting to watch and see where the next stages of communication will take us. One challenge that I see, though, is that as the pool of content producers to grow, it will likely become harder to find any individual producer, particularly a new one. Didn't you write about this in your crowdsourcing post from a week or so ago?
gregorylent
· 1 year ago
it is on the way to mind-to-mind ... in fact twitter is for those whose intuition simply hasn't begun to develop yet ... laggards
Ha
· 7 months ago
it is on the way to mind-to-mind
gregorylent
· 1 year ago
jeez, i will take a hack at the "individual producer" line too ... we are all beginning to see ourselves as part of group consciousness, and the word "individual" is having its definition expanded. don't look to where it was, you won't see it.
and a side-effect, intellectual property rights advocates are going to struggle to remain relevant. you can already hear, in shakespeare's words, me thinketh thou doth protest too much
gregorylent
· 1 year ago
bucky fuller, bless his departed soul, called it ephemeralization, still one of the better descriptions
Laurie/Halo Secretarial
· 1 year ago
It's great - now those of us who are bloggers (or microbloggers or ebook writers, etc, etc) can enjoy that we are published writers without the headache of finding a publishing house to work with!
Colby Olson
· 1 year ago
I agree, publication is indeed becoming easier and cheaper, and I find the idea of what is in store around the corner very interesting.
Bruno Pedro
· 1 year ago
I agree with Clay Shirky's saying that "the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower" but the number of different places where you can publish is increasing dramatically.
As new publishing places emerge every day, users are confronted with the Paradox of Choice. Where should I host my blog? Why? Where should I publish pictures? Will my friends be able to see them? How should I upload my videos? Should I do a live broadcast where should I publish a better resolution video?
What we need is better tools that take advantage of this growing variety of publishing tools and present us the best options according to our own needs.
Nick Holmes
· 1 year ago
Dave - Agreed that the blog as a platform is a very cost-effective means of publishing any time sensitive information and that now extends far beyond the original concept of a blog.
But, as you'll agree, "blogging" is about more than publishing. I note Clay Shirky's comments are from an interview way back in April 2004, so we must surely disagree with his assertion that:
"The word blog itself is going to fade into the middle distance, in the same way words like home page and portal did. Those words used to mean something relatively crisp and specific, but became so overloaded as to be meaningless."
Even if they use a blog CMS, we won't talk of newsletters, collections of articles etc as blogs, but to my mind "blogging" will live on as the term used to define the "naked conversations" which have popularised the medium.
ha
· 7 months ago
You could just have easily focused on the laser printer, Aldus Pagemake or the web browser and Netscape in the 1990s. Blogging is the leading edge in publishing in the first decade of this century.
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and a side-effect, intellectual property rights advocates are going to struggle to remain relevant. you can already hear, in shakespeare's words, me thinketh thou doth protest too much
As new publishing places emerge every day, users are confronted with the Paradox of Choice. Where should I host my blog? Why? Where should I publish pictures? Will my friends be able to see them? How should I upload my videos? Should I do a live broadcast where should I publish a better resolution video?
What we need is better tools that take advantage of this growing variety of publishing tools and present us the best options according to our own needs.
But, as you'll agree, "blogging" is about more than publishing. I note Clay Shirky's comments are from an interview way back in April 2004, so we must surely disagree with his assertion that:
"The word blog itself is going to fade into the middle distance, in the same way words like home page and portal did. Those words used to mean something relatively crisp and specific, but became so overloaded as to be meaningless."
Even if they use a blog CMS, we won't talk of newsletters, collections of articles etc as blogs, but to my mind "blogging" will live on as the term used to define the "naked conversations" which have popularised the medium.