i am hereby coining the phrase “the time-value of content”, referring to the lasting footprint of web-based content. based on my original work at feed company and the writing of warren lee. needed: a new science for valuing content
edit: i have since learned that others have already used this phrase in the past
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my boss forwarded this video to me; it speaks directly to my market-research-loving brain.
i also found this:
can’t embed it because the copyright police (rent-a-cops) are still out in force on this one.
what you are watching is new, and it leaves the recording industry with nothing to do and no one to sue. this guy, kutiman, spliced together user created youtube videos (with permission), creating a unique work; he made a whole album. i can’ t tell if the process drove the guy crazy or not because he is already european. this guy is so cool that he doesn’t even ask for donations; i wish he would, because i would love to support such an evolved artist. i am posting my three favorite videos, but check out the whole album on his site, thru-you.
scroll down.
“the mother of all funk chords”
“someday”
“wait for me”
one of my favorite pieces of media is the chicago public radio show, this american life. i podcast the show and amanda and i longe around on saturday morning listening to ira glass, the worlds greatest professional story teller. back in may, when the housing crisis was just a news story (back when the fundamentals of the economy were “strong”) this american life aired, in my opinion, its greatest show to date: giant pool of money.
in one hour, the show makes the financial crisis understandible to even to people with liberal arts or communications degrees. ira glass interviews economists, mortgage dealers, and “bankers” (really just paper pushers who didn’t have a clue). one of the craziest things that i learned from this episode is that the global pool of money, the total amount of savings amassed by human civilization, was thought to have doubled between 2000 and 2006. people were looking for places to put their money, and the “bankers” ran out of safe places to put it. i like that ira does not paint the picture of some global banker’s cabaal that sought to eat your dog and your baby; essentially everyone down the chain was telling small lies that added up to amageddon… seriously, check the show out, you will be entertained and amaized, but not as angry as you would think.
