Old Media / New Media Schism
I’ve never seen it better illustrated than in this blog entry by Joel Greenberg of the Electric Sheep Company. Here’s a sample paragraph:
“Yeah, but no one’s there,” said one of the Young Critics, who brought up the Wired article at the beginning of my talk. I said, “Go to GooglePlex at 9am on a Wednesday, you’ll say the same thing. Does that make municipal stadiums failures because 80% of the time they’re empty? You need to go to events.” The great opportunity for entrepreneurs is to make finding those events easier.
Preach it brotha!
Seriously, it’s a blog post you’d probably miss otherwise but is definitely worth your time. Don’t skip past the wandering preamble either, it’s important.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Actually, it’s not really even about old media/new media.
It’s about game designers (the guy who happened to ask the question was in fact a game designer) and Web 1.0 or even Web 2.0 gurus who find user-generated content terribly scary as it means they don’t have a purpose in the same way they use to as we won’t have to be dependent on them.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Glad you liked the post. Actually, as I wrote, one of the Young Turks was a reporter. It’s about all of the above.