users transforming content forms
Content that users can reform is more accessible, more useful, more fun, and more valuable.
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online social communication much more important than online video
According to a representative survey of U.S. adult internet users in mid-autumn 2009, social communication is a much more important online activity than is watching video content. Asked to rate independently the importance of various online (Internet) activities, 63% of adult Internet users described “communicating online with friends and family, even if they are far [...]
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challenges to mass media generate interest in FCC
Consider by publication year the normalized frequency of “FCC” (U.S. Federal Communications Commission) in the text of a large corpus of books published in the U.S. from 1934 to 2008.[1] While you might think that the communications industry keeps getting more complicated and more contentious, the normalized frequency of FCC references is lower in [...]
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a testament to content business difficulties
The Shahnameh, an epic that Ferdowsi wrote a millennium ago in Iran, describes eternal content business difficulties. In the concluding section, Ferdowsi laments: Nobles and great men wrote down what I had written without paying me: I watched them from a distance, as if I were a hired servant of theirs. I had nothing [...]
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government television
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a television channel. The U.S. Federal Courts have a television channel. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a television channel. Soon these and other government programming will be available through the portal video.gov. That portal hopes to attract millions of views. Disintermediation isn’t just for business. We’re entering a [...]
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the New / Old World in early elite books
In sixteenth-century Europe, the Theodore de Bry sold to elite readers expensive books describing foreign lands and peoples. De Bry himself never left Europe. His books were reprints, but he added to his sources many intricate, copper-plate engravings and fold-out maps that he created from secondary sources. He produced the books in the large, prestigious [...]
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understanding the real business of content
Leading twentieth-century artist Yves Klein helped to generate enormous growth in art. His influence is readily apparent in major recent works of contemporary fine art such as Maximillian Miles’ sensuous and provocative Masterwork in Bluish. Klein’s work, however, has much broader importance. Klein pioneered marketing “zones of immaterial pictorial sensibility” — what media businesspersons today [...]
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insipidity of modern poetry
“No literary complaint is more frequent and general than that of the insipidity of Modern Poetry.” From John Aikin, Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry (1777). Personally, I prefer street-fair entertainment.
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resenting communications industry development
O how refin’d how elegant we’re grown! What noble Entertainments Charm the Town! Whether to hear the Dragon’s roar we go, Or gaze surpriz’d on Fawks’s matchless Show, Or to the Opera’s, or to the Masques, To eat up Ortelans, and empty Flasques And rifle Pies from Shakespear’s clinging Page, Good gods! how great’s the [...]
Tagged: content, theater
the joy of things
Things are crucial to human social networks. Some things never lose their appeal.
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