Charlie Brooker – best piece on writing for TV – just fucking writing, I think I’ve seen – series 5. ep 3 or so
“I’d rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds”
– Jimmy McGovern
{ Monthly Archives }
February 2013
Said Glenn Hubbard to Warren Buffett according to John Byrne
I think people who go out and create wealth are a noble thing.
“One of his points was, ‘I invest better than you and so I want to hold the money.’
“And I said, ‘Well I have a great deal for you, Warren. Just give me stock. I won’t sell it. I will hold it.’
“He said, ‘You’re good but you’re not that good.’”
– from here
to Toby Behan, on his review of Violent Baby – realtime composition music and dance by Kristian Larsen, Julia Milsom, Rory Dalley, Chris Reddington and Emma Johnston at The Pallet Pavillion, Christchurch 2 Feb 2013
“What is this person doing reviewing?”
I suspect my meaning is this:
Please leave yourself behind next time you go and see a show.
To come away having seen a piece of work with only your personal opinion is a double failure.
The work has not been good enough to produce anything new in you.
You have not been good enough to produce anything new in your review of it, in your writing.
It is the second failure, which is yours, that you play out in public as a critic:
On the one hand, you have a bad show and bad art, because making art is the artist’s job; on the other, you have a reviewer who is not up to the job, which is writing.
The horrible part is that the failure of the review to live up to its responsibility as a piece of writing and go beyond personal opinion affects the reception of the art whether the work is good or bad.
For the critic to say he or she is merely giving a personal opinion is an abrogation of responsibility and an abuse both of the privilege afforded by the public role of critic and of the art work the critic is meant to serve.
– review here
support the open positioning system…
… why? because it’s open. Which means that unlike, for example, GPS, it is not owned and controlled by the U.S. military or other governments, government agencies, network companies or ‘providers.’
Here it is working:
- click to link
what I wrote there in a comment now here – and why: because I need your support for Little Elephant, social media that’s actually social
Imagine I told you I had a great idea for a business and wanted you to invest. My idea: we’re going to find really great websites, ones with niche high-quality information about a specific topic. Then what we’re going to do is print all these websites onto dead trees. That’s right, we’re going to go out to the forest, chop down lots of trees, and then print websites on them. We’ll then find hundreds of big trucks, and load them up with hundreds of thousands of these dead trees, and ship them to every single suburb on Earth, where we are going to set up little shops that sell the dead trees. Of course, these websites keep updating, so we’re going to have to ship out a new set again on a monthly, weekly, sometimes daily basis.
If I told you that was my idea, I’m pretty sure you would say I was nuts. But that’s exactly what the world’s newspaper and magazine companies are still doing.
– Matt Barie, “Entrepreneurs, Go Distrupt a Goliath!“
I like the dead trees image. But it is a mistake to think that even a newspaper website is doing the same thing as a newspaper made of dead trees. Newspapers now advertise their own websites, with “read more online” tags. It is in fact crazy how the dead tree world paradigm is being transplanted into the 10 x faster, easier, better, cheaper and disruptive world online.
Governments and corpocracy are rushing to crush the latter’s freedoms, controlling and in many cases strangling access to innovators. Erstwhile disruptors are increasingly defenders – buying out innovation to stamp out competition and mining patents to tie up potential competitors in lawyer-enriching litigation: the dead wood who emprison innovators – when not scaring them to death – in dead trees.
Zuckerberg applies the dead tree world paradigm to Fb in comparing it to a nation-state: it’s clearly not a democratic one.
Belief in disruption has itself fallen victim to the dead tree paradigm: start-ups are now an industry with an industrial code – Lean Start-Up as rule-book, for example – and “pitching” your “disruptive ideas” has become a spectator-sport. ‘Start-ups’ exists as an industry to hide the fact that the chance of any of them being successful is less than one in ten thousand.
So please invest 10 x what you would normally in Little Elephant, social media that’s actually social, as it takes on the Titans with nothing more than the iota of your lingering belief that there may in fact still be imagination: https://gust.com/c/littleelephantltd
