Friday, October 04, 2002|
Clay Shirky: Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing "It's intuitively appealing to believe that by making the connection between writer and reader more direct, weblogs will improve the environment for direct payments as well, but the opposite is true. By removing the barriers to publishing, weblogs ensure that the few people who earn anything from their weblogs will make their money indirectly." Indirectly...from affliate programs (recommending records, books, gizmos and point to Amazon, CDNow, etc.), some advertising, some donations (ala public radio), some benefactors (please, please, please...my kingdom for a benefactor). OK. So maybe the money is in weblog production. Putting the blog together. And not just this textual kind of blog (which is the current state-of-the-art and what Clay is referring to as 'publishing'), but a more multi-media oriented blog with audio, video, interaction. Helping folks that can have the means and funding (and probably knowledge to do a textual blog) but not the technical savvy that a multi-media-type blog would require.
For instance, have George Lewis as my mentor and capture his life and times, with his help and direction, in a weblog. And his work seems to cry for a multi-media-type of blog. And there are lots of other folks with great minds that should be doing these types of weblogs and just need a multi-media scribe helping them get it down. |
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MacArthur Genuis Grant Winner George Lewis Improvises on The New Jazz Thing, September 26, 2002 George Lewis, recently announced winner of the 2002 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, talked about the award, living the improvised life (jazzy and not), and what works for him when taking publicity pictures, among other things when he joined The New Jazz Thing on Thursday evening, September 26, 2002, live via phone from the airport. While the description sounds light and airy, the discussion was pretty heavy and thought provoking. What would you expect from a genius?! The interview is available here in a very large, 22MB, MP3 format, so those with a modem at home may want to break-in to their friends house with broadband and listen away.
Here's the interview (MP3, 22MB). |
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New Written and Spoken Thoughts on the Doug Randal Memorial Weblog There have been some additional remembrances added to the Doug Randall Memorial Weblog, including part 1 of an interview I did with Johnny Viau last Thursday, September 26, 2002 (available in MP3 format). Thanks to Bob, Varden, Johnny, and others who have and continue to help put this all together. 10:13:46 AM  comment [] Google It!
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