The assumption that the TV networks = “content” is untrue. The nets filter, finance, package and promote the content. they aren’t Mike Tyson, they’re Don King. Not Vincent Chase, but Ari Gold. The big play everyone in the middle of the food chain needs to fear (everyone that is except for production companies and consumers) [...]
Hello, Portland. I’m ready to take the next step, if you are. I’m plotting my next career move, and would love to stay here in our lovely, livable town. The only problem is that all the juicy digital media jobs for someone like me seem to be in New York, L.A., or San Francisco. This [...]
We are all many. Whether you call them “masks” or “hats” we all have several we shuffle through each day. Not only are we interested in consuming different categories of content, but we are interested in creating content in different categories as well, thereby presenting specific facets of ourselves to the sundry social spaces we each occupy. To that end, Twitter should implement some notion of “personae”, in recognition of this idea that each of us are (perhaps subtly) different things within different social contexts, and might like to preserve the separation of those spheres in our social media.
If it’s optimized for a search engine, it’s *not* being optimized for me. I want my content to be HIO – human intelligence optimized.