While I was reading a copy of
popular science I checked out the letters to the editor. Nothing special so far, okay. But they had a section for blogs where they said how many blogs had written entries about last months stories and had some comments from them. I thought that was just so cool that using the web they are showing what people are writing
about them, and not just what people have written
to them.
TV at first was very similar to live performances, and over time has changed into a completely different medium. The web at first was very similar to magazines and papers, it's changing into something completely different. I just don't know into what. ;-)
Listening to: Harry Simeone Chorale - What Child Is This
Wired magazine has made an interesting transition to the web. They still publish the paper version and then release the articles online over the course of the month.
ReplyDeleteI can wait so I usually just read the articles online.
Along the same lines, magazines exist because we need paper as a distribution medium. They are montly because it's convenient.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when everyone has WIFI and acces to a cheap "paper" medium that can display any web page, magazine, newspaper in the world? Nevermind PDAs, notebooks and tablets that already can do this. Will magazines still be monthly without the paper to hold them back? Probably not.
That's a really good point. Sort of like where music is possibly going: why would you need to get together an album? Why not just release songs as you see fit and sell them online?
ReplyDeleteYup. Though artists have been arguing that grouping songs together into albums has a purpose; albums sometimes have some overlying theme that connects all of the songs. The singles drive the album sales but the rest of the songs on the album complete the "theme". So artists are hestitant to get rid of the album format.
ReplyDeleteSome of my favourite songs on albums are never released as singles so if artists went to an "all singles" format music would probably suffer for it.
More mini-albums (currently called EPs) would be cool though: 4-8 tracks but released twice as often as regular albums. Cheaper studio time, possibly higher quality and more recent because they are electronically distrubuted and CDs don't need to be pressed.