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more on Jeffrey Chester: The Google YouTube Tango
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:01:23 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: October 13, 2006 5:50:01 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Jeffrey Chester: The Google YouTube Tango Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This comment comes from reader Scott Berry. DLH] From: "Scott J. Berry" <Scott.Berry () smhgroup com> Date: October 13, 2006 12:14:12 PM PDT To: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] Jeffrey Chester: The Google YouTube Tango Dewayne, For the list if you like. Couple of comments about this article: 1. Give people some credit. We've always had an "off" switch. We still have one. Walk away from the TV. Shut off your cell phone. Unplug. Immersion is an option. 2. Yes, it's a shame that concentration of traditional media ownership is reducing choices. But what's different now is that new media "outlets" (don't like that word, it has a broadcast connotation) suddenly have very low barriers of entry. Pretty difficult to start your own TV station. Putting up a site or a blog or a video is simple and cheap. The internet routes around this stuff, as others have more famously said. 3. I certainly see that News Corp et al are trying to create this pervasive commercial immersion for everyone. Can't really blame them--scorpion and the frog, you know. But if people insist on being passive receivers, I guess they get what they deserve. No government, regulation, nanny state, or impassioned call-to-arms will save us from ourselves. I taught my daughter what "persuade" meant when she was 4. Now I never miss an opportunity to point out the hidden agendas in the things she sees. Frankly, I'm astonished at the prices that have been paid for MySpace and YouTube. If these were physical, or at least persistent, assets that would be one thing. They aren't. Kids have always been smarter than "Grups" give them credit for. If the media barons become too invasive with the ads, everyone will just fade away to another meeting place on the net, and Murdoch and company will be left holding the (now empty) bag. Scott ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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