Where did User Generated Media start? My vote: Cheap Gear.
When I look at what's happening to the old media world (disintermediation, collapse of classified ad cash cows, loss of editorial control, erosion of readers/viewers/listeners under 30 etc., etc.) and think to myself, why is this? What's the base cause for it.. I come up with alot of possible answers. Things like low cost high speed internet connection, opensource software making it reasonably easy (and cheap) to start new businesses but, more than anything, I think it's Cheap Gear my mom can use.
I know this sounds simplistic, but I like to get to base causes. What's the one thing that we had to have before all the Web 2.0 magical poofy things that sucked in millions of average people with a computer was possible? My conjecture: It's Cheap Gear.
It's that hardware interface that takes life and turns it a mishmash of words, pictures, sounds and videos.
I'm looking at around my office and I have what's really a recording and video production studio. Noth…
I know this sounds simplistic, but I like to get to base causes. What's the one thing that we had to have before all the Web 2.0 magical poofy things that sucked in millions of average people with a computer was possible? My conjecture: It's Cheap Gear.
It's that hardware interface that takes life and turns it a mishmash of words, pictures, sounds and videos.
I'm looking at around my office and I have what's really a recording and video production studio. Noth…