Comments on: Let’s Be Clear http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/10/28/lets-be-clear/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lets-be-clear A journal of geekery, music and joy Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sam’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Production Quality or Content? http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/10/28/lets-be-clear/comment-page-1/#comment-3397 Sam’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Production Quality or Content? Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:53:28 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2677#comment-3397 [...] The other day. the NY Times had good piece on podcasting. There was a great quote from Dave Winer (one of the creators of podcasting), “I love podcasting because it turns us all into investigative journalists of our own lives.”. Here is Dave’s elaboration on the statement. One of the main things in the piece is the spectrum of investment people make into equipment for podcasting. There has been a bit of discussion going on online about production quality in podcasts. Dave Slusher has also written about it in response to to this piece posted by Steven Hill on Steve Gillmor’s blog. [...] [...] The other day. the NY Times had good piece on podcasting. There was a great quote from Dave Winer (one of the creators of podcasting), “I love podcasting because it turns us all into investigative journalists of our own lives.”. Here is Dave’s elaboration on the statement. One of the main things in the piece is the spectrum of investment people make into equipment for podcasting. There has been a bit of discussion going on online about production quality in podcasts. Dave Slusher has also written about it in response to to this piece posted by Steven Hill on Steve Gillmor’s blog. [...]

]]> By: Brooklyn Bluesman http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/10/28/lets-be-clear/comment-page-1/#comment-3376 Brooklyn Bluesman Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:43:46 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2677#comment-3376 Dave you never cease to crack me up. I can hear this being said in the late great Johnny Carson's voice,"Wrongo, pop filter breath." Dave you never cease to crack me up. I can hear this being said in the late great Johnny Carson’s voice,”Wrongo, pop filter breath.”

]]> By: Darren Griffith http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/10/28/lets-be-clear/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Darren Griffith Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:59:38 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2677#comment-3369 Dave, I always come back to the story you told a long time ago on the clambake about the famous short story writer whose early work really sucked. But he kept writing and composing and refining his style until, one day, he was one of the best writers. Today, the zero-cost entry for blogging, and the zero-risk activity of producing and publishing audio/video via podcasting, makes it a perfect time for ordinary people to just start creating stuff. Those who find a passion will improve over time. Sure, there will always be a lot of crappy presentations, but people's ideas and their presentations will get refined by merely practicing regularly, and through the feedback of an engaged audience. So, in this new world of citizens' media, the presence of "crap" on the network is a feature to be celebrated, not a bug. Dave, I always come back to the story you told a long time ago on the clambake about the famous short story writer whose early work really sucked. But he kept writing and composing and refining his style until, one day, he was one of the best writers.

Today, the zero-cost entry for blogging, and the zero-risk activity of producing and publishing audio/video via podcasting, makes it a perfect time for ordinary people to just start creating stuff. Those who find a passion will improve over time. Sure, there will always be a lot of crappy presentations, but people’s ideas and their presentations will get refined by merely practicing regularly, and through the feedback of an engaged audience.

So, in this new world of citizens’ media, the presence of “crap” on the network is a feature to be celebrated, not a bug.

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