Greetings Economists,
On Jul 9, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
Oh the community. I've heard that so many times around Pacifica I
could scream. The community is a vague and undefinable thing. Most
people in the broadcast or print audience don't really know all that
much about what's going on. "Community input" sounds nice but it's
an absolutely empty concept.
Doyle;
Let's put in the context of what happens online in intellectually
demanding areas like playing chess. The chess playing community is
bigger and better skilled than in the sixties when I learned how to
play. One could say the same thing about photography. The
development of skills is off the radar in terms of measuring, but the
community development is important. Any social protest that doesn't
use the internet is foolish.
What is more important in a capitalist economy is which business is
more viable. Community content is more important than media objects.
Doug,
You've got to be kidding. Facebook status updates consist mostly of
inane reports of daily life ("I need coffee!" "I just steamed some
sugar snap peas." - actual quotes from my FB friends), or reposts of
material produced by professional journalists. The amount of amateur
or "community" information production approaches zero.
Doyle;
So you down grade that as trivial. So trivial is not worth anything
to you. Community content is actually very important to people, but
the ability to use it on a more complex scale with pictures and sound
is new enough that we don't know yet how that will move things. Still
providing the service is profitable for Facebook. I see that Murdock
has failed with Myspace because of corporate miss calculations. So
the whole system of social networking is not easy to figure out based
upon past experience with old media.
Doug,
Wow. And you said Gladwell was "superficial," "more slogan than
substance"? Funny.
Doyle;
The problem with Pen-L is the medium does not promote depth and
substance. Why single me out for lack of substance? What is more
substantive about our replies? The Pen-L process lacks the means to
give substance.
Doug,
The Internet produces very little original information. It's a medium
of distribution, not production.
Doyle;
Flickr and YouTube produce a tremendous amount of original high
quality product.
Doyle
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