Really Good assesments both ! -db
Everything I Know about
the Internet I Learned from X10 (or, How to Know
When Your Industry Hits Rock
Bottom) by Jason McCabe Calacanis
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:24
PM
Subject: [skunkworks] Re: call for
ideas
Hi Kerry,
Something I
have been thinking about lately is how to break the existing paradigms with
the 'old guard'.
I was invited to a session sponsored by a new
media school and they wanted suggestions on what topics to teach. I sat at a
table with a video producer who was quite successful, yet he hung on to the
old ideas, where someone wanting to get into the industry had to start at the
bottom by doing menial work, like organizing tapes on shelves. The concept of
digital distribution had not yet occurred to him. He still believed that to
get exposure, one had to distribute video tapes. The possibility of e-mailing
a link to a high bandwidth stream was a fresh idea, he said he would think
about it, but I could sense his apprehension, he was no longer a master in his
field.
These people who maintain the status quo are
well paid, why should they consider all the work of learning a whole new set
of applications? and they will defend their ways, with ferocity at times. Look
at the music industry kicking and flailing, as prices for CD/MP3 disc writers
and players hit new lows, and music CD sales decline. There isn't much hope
for a lot of these people - who get free rides on the shirttails of musicians,
but video production requires more talent.
Getting the
'old guard' to accept new production and distribution techniques is the on
ramp to faster mass adoption.
Rob S.
Kerry Lange wrote:
Hi everyone -
I'm the Conference Director for the U.S.
Streaming Media Events and am currently creating the program for Streaming
Media East in December. If you have any session topics, presentations, or
speakers you'd like to see on the program, please send ideas directly to me
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions, I'm happy to discuss
them with you as
well.
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