Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
But that's fetishism
Certainly explains Lady Gaga.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
the profession of being a writer?
Is changing, just as the profession of scribe did. 'Indexes' will evolve.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
eclecticism is normal when everyone is a DJ
Bravo. Teeworthy.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
means breaking a very important social contract
The corporate middle-men did that a very long time ago by constantly extending the protected period from its orginal 14 years, tipping the balance of the contract in the interests of rights-holders rather than the public.
I respect Clay Shirky's take on the fundamental shift from publishing gatekeepers to post-filtering by consumer networks and other aggregators.
Culture industry businesses, regulators and public interest entities are adapting accordingly, some more smartly than others. But the fundamentals of production, marketing, distribution, consumption, sharing and enjoying have changed so that old answers will no longer work. We need new ones (and they don't all have to enshrine libertarian utopianism, thankfully).
there is a fundamental problem I think in the idea that we should give up on making the work itself being the thing that gets rewarded.
It requires being clearer about what the "work" is, really about where the value exchange is between creator and consumer.
If it's in the relationship of appreciation between both those parties, then book tours, limited editions and personally autographed copies are one way to go. Likewise performance for musicians rather than selling units from afar. True, that sucks if you aren't the performing type. What's the equivalent in writing of lucrative soundtrack licensing for musos? Editing or curating, perhaps?
Intermediaries will still exist. And yes, there still need to be strong arrangements for maintaining the overall public interest that transcends individuals and the now. The discussion about a local media archive is part of that.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
What's with me and thinking that Media 7 is on Wednesdays?
The filming is - that expectation marks you as an insider. :)
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to David Haywood,
excellent news for those affected
I do respect the government's commitment to preserving private equity in this instance.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Jonathan King,
count yourself lucky to get what we decide you’ll be allowed to have
daddy state
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to David Haywood,
Someone has to make a very well-reasoned decision whether they’re going to kick a homeowner off a section+house such as this that is completely undamaged.
You'd still need viable area resources like roading and drainage though, regardless of whether individual properties are OK. Could always ask devoted libertarians to live in em I guess.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Lilith __,
Lily Allen
That's Lily Cooper now.
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Muse: V.S. Naipaul and the Gentle Art of…, in reply to bmk,
on the wrong side of Craig
you'll survive