tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post8363776018274767790..comments2024-03-12T11:09:02.227+00:00Comments on B2fxxx: The Future of Content Pt 2Ray Corriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06810875779011470290noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post-3103579701332295602007-09-26T15:20:00.000+01:002007-09-26T15:20:00.000+01:00An excellent response Ray (much better researched ...An excellent response Ray (much better researched and thought out than mine) - I've responded to your piece over at my blog: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/09/future-of-conte.html<BR/>MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post-84647387007144522042007-09-26T12:38:00.000+01:002007-09-26T12:38:00.000+01:00He certainly upset the labels and the radio establ...He certainly <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Radio_(song)" REL="nofollow">upset</A> the labels and the radio establishment with that one. :-)Ray Corriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06810875779011470290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post-29703525335842381082007-09-26T12:18:00.000+01:002007-09-26T12:18:00.000+01:00Broadcasting quality? Nothing to add to "Radio Rad...Broadcasting quality? Nothing to add to "Radio Radio", Elvis Costello, 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Radio_%28song%29AJ Cannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02256258076753792133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post-83704263609337153392007-09-26T10:25:00.000+01:002007-09-26T10:25:00.000+01:00The church post Gutenberg is certainly an interest...The church post Gutenberg is certainly an interesting case. Initially the printing press was welcomed (at least by some in the church hierarchy though there were the usual complement of soothsayers of doom) as a means to spread Roman Catholic doctrine but they quickly realised that people were reading and interpreting the bible in non standard ways. Cue the increased energy of the inquisition. Then Martin Luther comes along declaring the bible (rather than the papacy) the sole source of Christian authority and all hell breaks loose.<BR/>Broadcasting is another really interesting one and the story of Edwin Howard Armstrong and FM radio (of which Tom Lewis's 'Empire of the Air' is one of the best written accounts) could be taken to either support or detract from Martin's point about quality, depending on how you read it. It's a classic tale of established interests suppressing better substitutable technology on they could control that new technology.Ray Corriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06810875779011470290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3946856.post-74617877178503460842007-09-26T09:58:00.000+01:002007-09-26T09:58:00.000+01:00Like you Ray, I guess I'm a pessimist. I don't bel...Like you Ray, I guess I'm a pessimist. I don't believe premium content will become free either. Content which is cheap to produce as bait for an advertising platform maybe, premium content, no. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, did books become free? No. Cheaper in human terms (no further need to found a monastery to produce books), and more widely distributed, yes. Who suffered post-Gutenberg? The Church, arguably. Who gained? Universities, arguably. In other words, the existing establishment had to loosen its grip on information and the resulting income flow. But the economics of publishing have clearly changed with new technologies. And the existing establishment (publishers, universities?) will experience the same effects as the last time this shift happened (which was not Gutenberg but the invention of broadcasting).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com