Comments on: Analogue Link-Rot http://www.genomicon.com/2009/11/analogue-link-rot/ The Crowd-Sourcing of Intelligent-Design Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.genomicon.com/2009/11/analogue-link-rot/comment-page-1/#comment-874 admin Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:46:51 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=3173#comment-874 Well we're finding ourselves back in something resembling an Oral Tradition. It's all based upon people participating rather than passively recieving - and if you're stopping people from participating... then you're not in the game. Well, not in the game that has all the energy at the moment. The old systems of distribution of metadata were murderously expensive - really, only big players could afford to pay mainstream-radio payola. Being able to route around that is one of the best things ever to happen from an artist's point of view... although we are possibly just swapping one type of feudalism for another I suspect. But still - The Lords of the New Church aren't creativity-killing record and movie execs still looking for The New Eagles, or The New Top Gun or whatever... the new gatekeepers are celebrity-otaku. People who really know their stuff. The other problem of course is monetisation. Not the fact that we can't do it, but that we have to. Well we’re finding ourselves back in something resembling an Oral Tradition. It’s all based upon people participating rather than passively recieving – and if you’re stopping people from participating… then you’re not in the game.

Well, not in the game that has all the energy at the moment. The old systems of distribution of metadata were murderously expensive – really, only big players could afford to pay mainstream-radio payola. Being able to route around that is one of the best things ever to happen from an artist’s point of view… although we are possibly just swapping one type of feudalism for another I suspect. But still – The Lords of the New Church aren’t creativity-killing record and movie execs still looking for The New Eagles, or The New Top Gun or whatever… the new gatekeepers are celebrity-otaku. People who really know their stuff.

The other problem of course is monetisation. Not the fact that we can’t do it, but that we have to.

]]> By: Shelley Noble http://www.genomicon.com/2009/11/analogue-link-rot/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Shelley Noble Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:48:33 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=3173#comment-873 I don't listen to music. But I think you make an excruciatingly important point in this post. Well said. well said. "If isn't being copied, it’s dead." That says it all so succinctly! I don’t listen to music. But I think you make an excruciatingly important point in this post. Well said. well said.

“If isn’t being copied, it’s dead.”

That says it all so succinctly!

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