Really? How do you explain U2 and Pussycat Dolls then?
Showing posts with label Chris Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Anderson. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
free
This is an interesting post, even if it contains no arguments just evangelicism. Like all prophets of his kind, Seth is unable to see past the medium he operates within, thinks life begins and ends on the Internet. Ridiculous. It's a shame his breed are so gung-ho because there is a fair amount of truth in what they're suggesting as UNARGUABLE FACT, FULL STOP.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
stage 2 (3)
and...
5. Anderson – while welcoming the democratisation of the marketplace that digital sales in web 2.0 environments have caused – warns against becoming too reliant upon user-generated content. Writing about the most famous example of citizen journalism, Wikipedia, he says, "It should be a site for information exploration, not the definite source of fact" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69). He explains the same criteria applies to [music] blogs – another potent example of The Long Tail - that no single blog is authoritative, and you "just need to read more than one of them before making up your mind" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69).
5. Anderson – while welcoming the democratisation of the marketplace that digital sales in web 2.0 environments have caused – warns against becoming too reliant upon user-generated content. Writing about the most famous example of citizen journalism, Wikipedia, he says, "It should be a site for information exploration, not the definite source of fact" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69). He explains the same criteria applies to [music] blogs – another potent example of The Long Tail - that no single blog is authoritative, and you "just need to read more than one of them before making up your mind" (Anderson, 2008, pp. 69).
Friday, May 8, 2009
stage 2
More stuff that's been left out of my stage 2 proposal...
1. ...also problematic is that both Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and Chris Anderson’s concept of the infinite marketplace (Anderson, 2006) only hold true if applied to a certain social group – the cultural bourgeoisie. Outside this group, consumers aren’t concerned with conferring social distinction and would rather tap into the hits-orientated market of the mega-corporations.
2. Is music criticism an inherently parasitic trade? George Bernard Shaw did not believe so. “I could make deaf stockbrokers read my two pages on music,” he wrote about his own column on criticism in The Scottish Musical Monthly (Shaw, 1961), neatly summarising the odd dichotomy that often takes place when music critics practise their craft with skill: it no longer becomes necessary to hear the piece of music under discussion, the descriptive passage is enough.
3. What complicates discussion about web 2.0 is that now the bigger companies have begun to grasp the counterintuitive logic of statistical probabilities, it is no longer expansionary but starting to contract. The internet is becoming homogenised, as companies such as Google and Amazon tighten their grip on web 2.0 users, using time-honoured free market tactics – i.e. price the others out of the game by making your own product unbeatably cheaper and ubiquitous. In the case of web economics, this means that almost everything Google offers to the consumer is free – and it then takes full advantage of The Long Tail effect by opening up everywhere to advertising, knowing that a “very, very big number (the products in the Tail) multiplied by a relatively small number (the sales of each) is still equal to a very, very big number” (Anderson, 2006).
1. ...also problematic is that both Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and Chris Anderson’s concept of the infinite marketplace (Anderson, 2006) only hold true if applied to a certain social group – the cultural bourgeoisie. Outside this group, consumers aren’t concerned with conferring social distinction and would rather tap into the hits-orientated market of the mega-corporations.
2. Is music criticism an inherently parasitic trade? George Bernard Shaw did not believe so. “I could make deaf stockbrokers read my two pages on music,” he wrote about his own column on criticism in The Scottish Musical Monthly (Shaw, 1961), neatly summarising the odd dichotomy that often takes place when music critics practise their craft with skill: it no longer becomes necessary to hear the piece of music under discussion, the descriptive passage is enough.
3. What complicates discussion about web 2.0 is that now the bigger companies have begun to grasp the counterintuitive logic of statistical probabilities, it is no longer expansionary but starting to contract. The internet is becoming homogenised, as companies such as Google and Amazon tighten their grip on web 2.0 users, using time-honoured free market tactics – i.e. price the others out of the game by making your own product unbeatably cheaper and ubiquitous. In the case of web economics, this means that almost everything Google offers to the consumer is free – and it then takes full advantage of The Long Tail effect by opening up everywhere to advertising, knowing that a “very, very big number (the products in the Tail) multiplied by a relatively small number (the sales of each) is still equal to a very, very big number” (Anderson, 2006).
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Twittering
The following is a selection of comments culled from Twitter over the past 12 hours.
everetttrue does anyone else find Chris Anderson groundlessly optimistic?
angusbatey@everetttrue You mean the Wired bloke? "Hopelessly naive" would be closer to the mark. Or maybe "head-in-clouds dangerous", when it comes to his vision of a world where facilitators get rich and creators starve. (Not that that's how he sees it, I don't suppose.)
everetttrue yep, that's the one. seems odd to me that he's taken serious, but he's a good talking point nonetheless
angusbatey@everetttrue I'm beginning to understand the reasons for the rise of people like that. He helps make people whose relationship to creativity is essentially parasitical feel like they're riders at the gates of the new dawn. Elevating him to guru status makes them all feel validated. The medium becomes more important than the message. Don't worry - one day a rain will come and wash these electronic streets. I fucking hope. Though the borders look parched right now and too many plants are dying.
everetttrue Anyone read The Cult Of The Amateur? Care to summarise?
angusbatey@everetttrue TCotA condensed: "Anderson is wrong! Creators' rights are good! More people should agree with me, but I'm not quite sure why." It was a book I felt needed to be written, but by someone else. He's got his heart in the right place but spends too long wringing his hands and not enough coming up with solutions.
seaninsound@everetttrue Internet Life Is Rubbish. Or just read the first chapter or an int with him.
brainlove@everetttrue Summary: the internet is the end of anyone knowing what is good any more in a rising tide of home-made trash.
INTERMISSION (lots of twitpics from lilyroseallen)
susioneill@everetttrue Will Page @ PRS disproved Anderson's Long Tail theory and the freemium model doesnt work in a low advertising downturn
everetttrue interesting link Long Tail Theory contradicted
everetttrue i've just had my followers increased by 27% in the space of a few hours. Are you all here for Chris Anderson? Bourdieu? The Cult Of The Amateur? Or was it the mention on Drowned In Sound?
everetttrue does anyone else find Chris Anderson groundlessly optimistic?
angusbatey@everetttrue You mean the Wired bloke? "Hopelessly naive" would be closer to the mark. Or maybe "head-in-clouds dangerous", when it comes to his vision of a world where facilitators get rich and creators starve. (Not that that's how he sees it, I don't suppose.)
everetttrue yep, that's the one. seems odd to me that he's taken serious, but he's a good talking point nonetheless
angusbatey@everetttrue I'm beginning to understand the reasons for the rise of people like that. He helps make people whose relationship to creativity is essentially parasitical feel like they're riders at the gates of the new dawn. Elevating him to guru status makes them all feel validated. The medium becomes more important than the message. Don't worry - one day a rain will come and wash these electronic streets. I fucking hope. Though the borders look parched right now and too many plants are dying.
everetttrue Anyone read The Cult Of The Amateur? Care to summarise?
angusbatey@everetttrue TCotA condensed: "Anderson is wrong! Creators' rights are good! More people should agree with me, but I'm not quite sure why." It was a book I felt needed to be written, but by someone else. He's got his heart in the right place but spends too long wringing his hands and not enough coming up with solutions.
seaninsound@everetttrue Internet Life Is Rubbish. Or just read the first chapter or an int with him.
brainlove@everetttrue Summary: the internet is the end of anyone knowing what is good any more in a rising tide of home-made trash.
INTERMISSION (lots of twitpics from lilyroseallen)
susioneill@everetttrue Will Page @ PRS disproved Anderson's Long Tail theory and the freemium model doesnt work in a low advertising downturn
everetttrue interesting link Long Tail Theory contradicted
everetttrue i've just had my followers increased by 27% in the space of a few hours. Are you all here for Chris Anderson? Bourdieu? The Cult Of The Amateur? Or was it the mention on Drowned In Sound?
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