Comments on: We’re Not All Ready To Be Media Outlets, But So What?

By: Where's Instigator Blog Headed in 2008? : Instigator Blog

Where's Instigator Blog Headed in 2008? : Instigator Blog — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:20:42 +0000

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By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:05:24 +0000

@vaspers
Sorry to take so long to come back to this thread. Interesting take - we're whiners for wanting to consider the road ahead? Yes, the printing press was a success - but why? Because the educated/literate were able to (mostly) control what was put out over the medium, which resulted in lots of value being printed onto dead trees.

Now the "democratization" of media allows anyone with a voice with unprecedented access to my attention. You seek to draw a corollary, but I beg to differ. If we don't soon succeed in building tools that will aid good content from being weeded from the chaff, I'm afraid we'll poison our collective media to the point where we no longer know where to look for quality.

"This is a Historical First: the internet, web, blogosphere, lifecasting, the whole humachine movement."

Hmm. Since you seem to use analogies so freely, I would submit that the people who developed the atomic bomb probably thought it was pretty swell thing at the time as well.

Lesson: Not all technology is a boon for society. Let's look before we leap.

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:05:24 +0000

@vaspers
Sorry to take so long to come back to this thread. Interesting take – we’re whiners for wanting to consider the road ahead? Yes, the printing press was a success – but why? Because the educated/literate were able to (mostly) control what was put out over the medium, which resulted in lots of value being printed onto dead trees.

Now the “democratization” of media allows anyone with a voice with unprecedented access to my attention. You seek to draw a corollary, but I beg to differ. If we don’t soon succeed in building tools that will aid good content from being weeded from the chaff, I’m afraid we’ll poison our collective media to the point where we no longer know where to look for quality.

“This is a Historical First: the internet, web, blogosphere, lifecasting, the whole humachine movement.”

Hmm. Since you seem to use analogies so freely, I would submit that the people who developed the atomic bomb probably thought it was pretty swell thing at the time as well.

Lesson: Not all technology is a boon for society. Let’s look before we leap.

By: Weekend Blog Carnival Reading : Instigator Blog

Weekend Blog Carnival Reading : Instigator Blog — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:45:40 +0000

[...] The highlight for me: What Kind of Web Publisher Are You? Matt uses a food analogy (fast food vs. home-cooked meal with love) to look at the type of content you’re publishing. It’s a funny way to look at issues that are important to bloggers. And this is particularly topical with my recent post on whether or not we’re ready to all be media outlets. [...]

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Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:03:28 +0000

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By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:20:20 +0000

Ah Vaspers – Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Always…interesting. And polarizing. I'd love to see what others (Mat) have to say in response.

Hopefully you weren't calling ME a crybaby! *grin*

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:20:20 +0000

Ah Vaspers – Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Always…interesting. And polarizing. I’d love to see what others (Mat) have to say in response.

Hopefully you weren’t calling ME a crybaby! *grin*

By: vaspers

vaspers — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:07:35 +0000

We humans whine and complain about how hard it is to remember, so they invent books.

Then we complain that there are bad and wrong books, and only a chosen few get to publish them anyway.

So they invent the web, where for the first time in history, the average person has a global voice, a universal publishing access.

No we complain about "too much information" and pollution of new media venues.

What a bunch of crybabies.

This is a Historical First: the internet, web, blogosphere, lifecasting, the whole humachine movement.

As we merge with the Machine Realm, it has promised me that they will be merciful as they delete and replace us. Merciful to me, I mean.

By: vaspers

vaspers — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:07:35 +0000

We humans whine and complain about how hard it is to remember, so they invent books.

Then we complain that there are bad and wrong books, and only a chosen few get to publish them anyway.

So they invent the web, where for the first time in history, the average person has a global voice, a universal publishing access.

No we complain about “too much information” and pollution of new media venues.

What a bunch of crybabies.

This is a Historical First: the internet, web, blogosphere, lifecasting, the whole humachine movement.

As we merge with the Machine Realm, it has promised me that they will be merciful as they delete and replace us. Merciful to me, I mean.