EntropySink
Entertainment & Artistry => Words => Topic started by: stealth on January 03, 2010, 02:43:33 AM
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http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307269647
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because I don't have too much time atm to read the summary - what is it about?
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Damn axon, you're lazy today
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at the time of posting this I had my kid in my hands screaming for a bottle that was being warmed up....sorry!!
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I don't want you posting here unless you can devote the attention to the board that it deserves!
/axon stops posting
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:p
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Basically Ax, it's about technology and its impact on culture.
Paraphrasing the author's message, we're being led about by the nose by Web 2.0 to the point where content ceases to have any real meaning. It's also about the power of the group destroying individual creativity and cultural diversity.
There is so much emphasis on riding the wave of social networking services (i.e. Twitter) that I think most media organisations have completely lost their own cultural identity.
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seems pretty interesting...all though I don't think I agree with it (or at least what you said). I think that current technology gives power to individual creativity more than at any other time in history. Everyone that has an urge to show of there pictures/writing/music can do so with a few clicks of the mouse. Authors can set type themselves and even publish by themselves. There are a ton of other examples.
As for following waves - that's exactly it - a wave, and sooner or later it will reach land and dissipate. It is hype, or trend, whatever you want to call it. Media organizations use these services as mediums to reach audiences that otherwise they might not...the medium that is used does make it lose its cultural identity.
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his dreadlocks are hypnotizing.
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I don't want you posting here unless you can devote the attention to the board that it deserves!
/axon stops posting
Everyone remember this when the first lil govt pops out. I thinks shes got one in the oven already and he just isn't telling us