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May 25, 2003

[BlogTalk] Jose Luis Orihuela

Jose begins with the parable of the copyist: After the printing press made scribes obsolete, monasteries switched from copying Bibles to making beer. "Thanks to the invention of the printing press, Europe has the best beer in the world." The question for the media is: What will be our beer?

He has ten theses about the effect of the Internet on media:

1. From audience to user.
2. From media to content: It's the content that counts, not the medium
3. From monomedia to multimedia
4. From periodicity to real time - we lose reflection but gain dynamism
5. From scarcity to abundance; now the scarcity is in the reader's time.
6. From editor-mediated to non-mediated.
7. From distribution to access.
8. From one-way to interactive.
9. From linear to hypertext.
10. From data to knowledge.

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 25, 2003 10:20 AM

Comments

Regarding #2...it seems to contradict #3. content and media are intertwined. The internet seems merely a mechnism of distributing media and relating media to each other. Print, TV, radio, warm and cool, are all individually represented. the decision to blog in text, audio, or video carries the same effects.

Regarding #10...data to knowledge seems to presuppose a lot. Knowledge carries with it connotations of not just information but effect and truth...sounds nice and warm and fuzzy, though. Perhaps an explication of these points is in order before I comment on them. Ah, well, they do not seem readily available and in the spirit of weblogging and weblog browsing I click "send."

Posted by: wantwit | May 27, 2003 01:34 AM

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