Comments on: Everyone is a publisher. So, what’s the problem? http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2007/12/29/everyone-is-a-publisher-so-whats-the-problem/ About Art, Media and Technology and the future of it Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Inge http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2007/12/29/everyone-is-a-publisher-so-whats-the-problem/#comment-113183 Inge Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:01:31 +0000 http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2007/12/29/everyone-is-a-publisher-so-whats-the-problem/#comment-113183 I personally also opt for better filters, not less content. Music has the same 'problem': since software can replace hardware, everyone can (and often is) a producer of electronic music. In the past, anything that was released was 'good', since it already passed the filters of a record company and investments in a studio. That meant that I could safely buy any drum 'n bass album I found, since it was deemed to be good. Nowadays, anything can be published by anyone. Picking up everything from a genre I like is not a safe way. I therefore use filters (music mags, weblogs, friends) to filter out the quality content. I think that via this way the average quality of music (and its level of progress) has increased. It only takes a bit more time to find the proper content. Ps: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/12/28/social_media_blog_problems/ has 3 additional points regarding problems of social media / the fact that everyone can publish everything. I personally also opt for better filters, not less content. Music has the same ‘problem’: since software can replace hardware, everyone can (and often is) a producer of electronic music. In the past, anything that was released was ‘good’, since it already passed the filters of a record company and investments in a studio. That meant that I could safely buy any drum ‘n bass album I found, since it was deemed to be good.

Nowadays, anything can be published by anyone. Picking up everything from a genre I like is not a safe way. I therefore use filters (music mags, weblogs, friends) to filter out the quality content. I think that via this way the average quality of music (and its level of progress) has increased. It only takes a bit more time to find the proper content.

Ps: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/12/28/social_media_blog_problems/ has 3 additional points regarding problems of social media / the fact that everyone can publish everything.

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