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Mashups, Remix, Zombies, Androids & Frankentein
My current take-a-way is that the remix culture is about to go mainstream. Some would argue it is with works like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but the remixing mashups are spreading like a zombie virus, it's jumping to other steampunk/horror/scifi themes and will soon jump beyond the classics. They'll largely stay based on public domain books for obvious reasons but this will rapidly diversify beyond niche fiction like swine-flu jumping from pigs to humans.
Also watch out for Frankenstien. Koontz has been rigging on this for a while but the Frankenstien as the ultimate mashup will become the new zombie.
GenX FTW!!!
"A favorite argument among those who talk about the gap between Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y is that the youngest demographic is more adept with technology. According to the survey results, that's just not true.
Gen X employees contribute to discussion forums and social networks just as much as their Gen Y counterparts. The use of blogs and wikis was either equal or different by just a couple percentage points.
But the most significant difference was not in usage stats. It was how effective employees are at getting new software to be accepted. 22% of Gen X said they felt they have the "clout in their organization" necessary to introduce new technology, while only 13% of those under 29 said the same."
I don't believe cold fusion or hyper local
University of San Francisco to offer online classes in Web Analytics & Social Media
Sent from my brain telepathically with the help of my phone.
Is There Any Value Left in Print?
So I jokingly posted a tweet this morning about wanting to start a newsletter. You know those things that people used to print out and mail? Joke aside I kind of really wanted to do it. I don't know why. I don't even know what I'd write about that would be better suited for print than a blog.
Sure I may get analog with my note taking but read print? I still like books in print but that's because it's something permanent. Books are something I want to keep. I always wanted to grow up and have a whole room that was a library. Of course I also wanted to grow up and be an astronaut.
Then I saw this post from TechCrunch about The Print Blog heading to the recycle bin. And instead of making me toss my idea aside it kind of made me want to go through with it. I don't know why!
Remember the Printed Blog? It was a newspaper - on actual glossy paper - that would syndicate posts from the Interwebs. Josh Karp founded it six months ago and he ran through 16 issues and 80,000 copies - all on his own dime. And now it’s dead.
Maybe it's some kind of weird nostalgia from my college days of printing a 'zine. (Mine was called Pinion and was the normal drivel you'd expect from liberal arts majors: ranting opinion pieces and bad poetry submissions from me and my friends) Maybe it's because this was such a point of interest at my last employer HP. Maybe it's just the contrarian in me that wants to swim up stream. Maybe it's because I want to see if there is any value in print.
What do you think? Is there any value in print? What would you want in print that you wouldn't want online?
Will Gen Y Break the Internet?
Just how much more content can we continue to create and consume? One
thing's for sre; We're going to need a bigger boat.
