Media
Anime Character Pushes Positive DRM
And a child shall lead them. In a rare move from a mainstream media outlet, anime schoolgirl Haruhi Suzumiya pushes positive DRM on behalf of Japanese media giant Bandai.
Stick that up your rootkit, Sony. More at Anime Mashups.
Judge Media Not on Size, but on Merit
Steve Rubel proposes that the distinction between mainstream and social media is obsolete.
The fact is that everyone who is contributing to the dialogue – be it in video, text or photos – has earned the right to be called media. Let’s can the compartmentalization and recognize once and for all the world has changed. We are all media – period.
Now that RSS allows me to subscribe to and unsubscribe from just about anything on a whim, the main distinction I see is between good and bad media. Examples of both abound, in all sizes.
On the large end of bad media, you have TV networks insulting peoples’ intelligence with ripped-off crap. On the small end of bad media, you have cowardly n00bs flaming anonymously and sulking on their LiveJournals.
On the large end of good media, you have newspapers telling it like it is, online and offline. On the small end of good media, you have A-list bloggers breaking scoops and making trends.
Brilliance and idiocy both scale. Let’s stop judging media outlets based on size, and start judging media outlets based on merit.
