RT @treypennington: Is blogging dead? http://TwitPWR.com/kb0/ Steve Rubel talks blogging, Darwin, Elephants, Zebras
Category: quote
Traditional Media is Dead
Why Traditional Media is Dead http://a2a.me/WXC // ‘quality will increasingly drive successful distribution’ i.e. good content always wins
“One person’s ‘accessible’ is another’s ‘crass commercialism.'”
What people are really saying when they talk about work as accessible, is that it won’t be making many (if any) demands upon the reader.
—John Gallaher1
NOTE:
1) John Gallaher, “Accessibilty or Crass Commercialism?,” June 16, 2009, Nothing to Say & Saying It, accessed June 19, 2009, https://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/06/accessibilty-or-crass-commercialism.html
disruptive internet technologies
from the report (http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/charging-for-news-apis-recommendations/): ‘disruptive internet technologies’…
In beer, there is strength
In wine, there is wisdom. In beer, there is strength. In water, their is bacteria.
Oscar Wong, Founder, Owner, President, and chief cleanup guy of Highland Brewery. (via plainclothesman)
the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than what we’ll tweet about it later
fluffynotes: somethingchanged: topherchris: Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than what we’ll tweet about it later. Ted Talk
get a job
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In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
Susan Sontag
“To the academic reader, these are provocative, even flashy performances. To the common reader, they’re like shots of intellectual espresso.” read more »
Blogging grows up
In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
GenXers and Academia
From ZimBlog (http://jzimba.blogspot.com/2008/09/gen-xers-and-academia-revisited.html) with HT to Poetry Hut Blog (http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/):
“”We” GenXers emerge … as a prickly group with an intense work ethic, a mania for effectiveness and efficiency, a hatred of talk and meetings, a pragmatic wish to find out what works, a corresponding impatience with ideology, and a risk-taking and entrepreneurial spirit….
“…they have finally eschewed academia in favor of writing and consulting; and many have passed on advanced degrees altogether so that they could become entrepreneurs or start new organizations.”
For several years now I have resisted the advice of fellow poets and writers to apply to the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Maybe it is the Zeitgeist of my generation.
Print is dead, long live print
From Print is Dead blog:
…even though I wrote a book called Print is Dead, even I don’t think that publishing is over. Rather, it just needs to change and be willing to embrace new ideas and business models.
Link
Analogue Sunday
sunili:(via theoisjonesing: tightgrip: thenausner)
Awesome! Analogue Sunday can’t come quick enough.
The other day
It all ends up on the scrap heap
Every product starts out as inspiration, moves to the drafting board, the production line, and then goes into someone’s hands before ending up, finally, on the scrap heap.
Jeff Gomez, Print is Dead1
NOTES:
1) Jeff Gomez, “Our books, our shelves; Adrian Tomine’s New Yorker cover,” February 22, 2008, Print is Dead Blog, accessed April 5, 2008, http://printisdeadblog.com/2008/02/22/our-books-our-shelves-adrian-tomine%E2%80%99s-new-yorker-cover/ (page no longer available, web site deactivated)
Assimilate or differentiate
Regarding generational synergy:
“there are opportunities to see where Gen Y is going by… looking at their relationship to… their Boomer parents, and other times in their shared code with Gen X. Codes of caution and status (Boomer) and codes of instigator and notoriety (Gen X). The reality is that generations are shaped by the ways they choose to assimilate or differentiate from the other generations in their world”
(via Brand Noise) Link
Lost in translation
Considering that I just read a few books of French prose (translations), I find this vaguely interesting.
“Did you know that in America we publish less literature in translation by far than any other industrialized democracy (in America 1% while in France 60%)?” Link
Based on my reading habits, I am a minority among most American.
Quote: Persistence is having the same goal over and over
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Seth Godin. Link.
New info opiate
research shows that a brain rewards itself with a squirt of natural opiates when it comes across new information that requires interpretation
Mark Frauenfelder (via Boing Boing) Link
Quote: Modern art is a disaster area…
(via Room 116) Link
Coffeehouse Junkie 