It used to be there were just a few media: telly, radio, books, phones, those kind of things. But I don’t think it makes sense to say that the Web is simply one more medium. The different services built on top of the Web have such different qualities: they are differently social; differently permanent or ephemeral; differently immersive or ambient. Flickr is a medium. YouTube is a medium. Blogs are a medium. What gave a medium its characteristics used to be the technology itself – the pipes and means of production – but with the Web that’s no longer true. What makes a medium a medium is itself up for design. The Web is not one medium, it is too fluid for that. The Web is ten thousand media, and you get to choose and invent which you use.
Schulze calls this media design and increasingly it’s what our strategy work involves. Interestingly companies up and down the media stack want the same thing. Content companies, distribution companies and technology companies are in a process of convergence. To put it bluntly: Facebook, Google, Apple, Nokia, BBC, Bonnier, the Guardian, Microsoft are becoming direct competitors, which never used to be the case.
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Madoff deployed an employee and to get drugs from 1975 to 2003, fueling an office so cocaine-laden insiders dubbed it “the North Pole.” Office parties featured topless waitresses, employee affairs were common and Madoff kept a list of his favorite pretty masseuses in his personal phone book
“If you dont want to get raped, dont go in the RAPE TUNNEL” (comment from ARTLURKER › THE RAPE TUNNEL By Sheila Zareno)
Hi! I see from your hub that you’re new to the area. Give me all your Simoleans or my friends and I will make it impossible to rent a house.
FTC: Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Endorsements
I like to read about a cool food while I’m eating it. Yogurt has some pretty neat powers.
I’ve been eating a lot of yogurt.
Japanese prefecture flags (via ck/ck - I was clicking my way around Wikipedia earlier…)
To understand that is to understand the company. We’re a cash-flow company – we’re not funded by oil tycoons and dot-com cash, we’re funded by films going out to the marketplace, doing well, and funding the next film. Each film has to do well at the marketplace. So we’re whores, first and foremost (via Vice Magazine: LOS ANGELES - DESTROYING THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY WITH FILM)
