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Context is king

Started by Philippe Bradley · 3 months ago

In the ‘Tuymans Experiment’, Luc Tuymans (widely hailed as one of the most important artists in the world - e.g. the Tate Modern’s description here, and the curators describing him in the first minute of the video above) decided to radically shift the c ... Continue reading »

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  • dsheise

    3 months ago

    Great Post. After reading this what immediately came to mind was Clay Shirky´s keynote on the web 2.0 expo in April.
    It might be a bit of a stretch but borrowing his ideas I would say that the adopters of web 2.0 services are the ones who managed to break out of the sitcom heat sink. Those who understand that media is a triathlon where you do not just consume, you produce and share as well.
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  • Philippe Bradley

    3 months ago

    but who is 'you', given that in my post I slide in the point that maybe anything but the most basic UGC is an inherently geeky thing and that Web2.0 is a geek fad but isn't going mainstream...

    as an aside, Patrick at Broadstuff just made an interesting point along those lines: http://broadstuff.com/archives/911-Navigating-t...
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  • dsheise

    3 months ago

    I think it´s more a matter of when than if it will ever get mainstream. The timing is always tough, but I believe all these services are aiming at the general user needs, not just the geeks.
    The geeks are the ones paving the path, so they´re the ones chatting and making the noise, but almost most of the services I see are actually simple and don´t require a geek to handle.
    I think investors and entrepreneurs are anxious for mainstream status but these thinks take time. What sounds geeky today comes built-in in the next generation and so on.
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  • Philippe Bradley

    3 months ago

    beware of thinking that geeks want complex services but average Janes want simplicity - geeks often seek simplicity because they're putting together their own online toolkit - they want their different websites to connect, not an 'all sizes fit one' package like you get with a yahoo account etc. Someone may not see the appeal of, say, Friendfeed if they do all their online stuff through Facebook. But I agree with you that often "What sounds geeky today comes built-in in the next generation" - very well put!
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  • glory

    3 months ago

    sounds familiar :P http://www.metafilter.com/60092/Did-it-matter-l... - "[what] if one of the world's great violinists had performed incognito before a traveling rush-hour audience of 1,000-odd people?" cheers!
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  • Philippe Bradley

    3 months ago

    here's another from today:
    http://flowingdata.com/2008/05/08/why-did-andy-...

    "If I were to skip straight to the part in The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Durfesne climbs out of the pipe of poo (and put it on mute), someone who never saw the movie might see an escaped convict who steals money from a warden and fleas to some random place in Mexico called Zihuatanejo. Out of grief, the warden kills himself and Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding eventually teams up with Andy to commit more crimes.

    Those of us who have seen the movie though know this isn't the case. Why? Because we saw the whole movie and have context."
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