Comments on: Been Meaning to Ask… http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/ The Art in the Business of Theater - Collaboration Tools and Technology and the Storefront Theater Movement Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-307 Chris Sat, 10 May 2008 20:27:41 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-307 I gotta belatedly but emphatically agree. I'm no legal policy wonk, but I don't think it takes a wonk to see that resisting the new media culture is insane. Or, if not insane, then achingly old school. I have a general impatience with business models that call for kings commanding storms. We all laugh at the record labels as they're dragged kicking and screaming into a world of digital music, but it's not like the other art forms get a free pass on this. Anything that can be digitized is subject to the new laws of digital dissemination: electrons are cheap, plentiful, easily copied, and multiply at the speed of thought. Watching the old guard react with terror to these properties would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. And why be terrified? Yes, it obliterates old models, but god, the power you can wield with those properties! The new business models get this, and they're running with it for all they're worth. I gotta belatedly but emphatically agree. I’m no legal policy wonk, but I don’t think it takes a wonk to see that resisting the new media culture is insane. Or, if not insane, then achingly old school.

I have a general impatience with business models that call for kings commanding storms. We all laugh at the record labels as they’re dragged kicking and screaming into a world of digital music, but it’s not like the other art forms get a free pass on this. Anything that can be digitized is subject to the new laws of digital dissemination: electrons are cheap, plentiful, easily copied, and multiply at the speed of thought.

Watching the old guard react with terror to these properties would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad. And why be terrified? Yes, it obliterates old models, but god, the power you can wield with those properties! The new business models get this, and they’re running with it for all they’re worth.

]]> By: A Podcast with its Very Own Style | Theater For The Future http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-263 A Podcast with its Very Own Style | Theater For The Future Thu, 01 May 2008 04:16:20 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-263 [...] and YouTube clips are a great tool to convince your non-theater going friends to take a chance on seeing a show. With [...] [...] and YouTube clips are a great tool to convince your non-theater going friends to take a chance on seeing a show. With [...]

]]> By: dan http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-227 dan Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:06:31 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/been-meaning-to-ask/#comment-227 solid points. oh yeh and that video is AWESOME. solid points. oh yeh and that video is AWESOME.

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