Comments on: Baby steps… to the end of the world? http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/baby-steps-to-the-end-of-the-world/ The blog that earns me a Masters degree. Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:50:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: twoblueshoes http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/baby-steps-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-7 twoblueshoes Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:33:40 +0000 http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-7 I think you're right, Sandra. Somehow the music industry is more susceptible to the changes because if you have the talent and the know-how (actually, talent is sometimes optional), you really can bypass the traditional modes of distribution quite easily. It's still not clear what the impact will be in other forms of media though... I guess a lot of it depends on overheads. If you have GarageBand, you can almost do it all on your own, but it's a little more difficult to make films without paying actors... (And Matt, it really is obscene of the RIAA to say ripping a disc you own is illegal. So much of the industry has failed to see this whole thing evolving. Dinosaurs, I tell you!) Hmmm... I feel a new post coming on! I think you’re right, Sandra. Somehow the music industry is more susceptible to the changes because if you have the talent and the know-how (actually, talent is sometimes optional), you really can bypass the traditional modes of distribution quite easily.

It’s still not clear what the impact will be in other forms of media though… I guess a lot of it depends on overheads. If you have GarageBand, you can almost do it all on your own, but it’s a little more difficult to make films without paying actors…

(And Matt, it really is obscene of the RIAA to say ripping a disc you own is illegal. So much of the industry has failed to see this whole thing evolving. Dinosaurs, I tell you!)

Hmmm… I feel a new post coming on!

]]> By: Sandra Possing http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/baby-steps-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-4 Sandra Possing Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:24:41 +0000 http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-4 Oh ya, times they are a changin'. It's mind-boggling to me to watch the pace at which the web 2.0/social networking/DIY/user-generated content/stick-it-to-the-man/youtube generation is embracing this revolution. Whereas most people online were simply observers, now more and more people are contributors. Just imagine what will happen once the kids who are growing up now - where this is the norm - reach their teens and 20's! While this phenomenon is touching all sorts of different industries and facets of modern life, I think the music industry will see some of the most stunning evolutions in this respect. Oh ya, times they are a changin’. It’s mind-boggling to me to watch the pace at which the web 2.0/social networking/DIY/user-generated content/stick-it-to-the-man/youtube generation is embracing this revolution. Whereas most people online were simply observers, now more and more people are contributors. Just imagine what will happen once the kids who are growing up now – where this is the norm – reach their teens and 20’s!

While this phenomenon is touching all sorts of different industries and facets of modern life, I think the music industry will see some of the most stunning evolutions in this respect.

]]> By: matt http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/baby-steps-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-3 matt Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:33:42 +0000 http://twoblueshoes.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-3 I think the point that I get the most is that because of the internet (good or bad) the delivery must change. There is a fantastic article in last month's wired (cover: free software, not apple=genius/evil) going through the issue and its history. We are used to the internet as a delivery method, be it as simple as information from wikipedia. For music and other media to not embrace that will leave us with the pirates. Either way it will be available to us, I hope that TV follows the lead of South Park and others to embrace this new distribution so you can have jobs so artist who make these amazing things don't have to have day jobs. Music industry missed the boat, and now they are in this knee jerk reaction mode sewing people left and right and letting the RIAA say obscene things like ripping a CD you own to your computer is illegal. I think the point that I get the most is that because of the internet (good or bad) the delivery must change. There is a fantastic article in last month’s wired (cover: free software, not apple=genius/evil) going through the issue and its history.

We are used to the internet as a delivery method, be it as simple as information from wikipedia. For music and other media to not embrace that will leave us with the pirates. Either way it will be available to us, I hope that TV follows the lead of South Park and others to embrace this new distribution so you can have jobs so artist who make these amazing things don’t have to have day jobs. Music industry missed the boat, and now they are in this knee jerk reaction mode sewing people left and right and letting the RIAA say obscene things like ripping a CD you own to your computer is illegal.

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