Comments on: Googlevision: Part I http://www.ignisfatuus.com/2008/05/09/googlevision-part-i/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave http://www.ignisfatuus.com/2008/05/09/googlevision-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Dave Sat, 10 May 2008 01:12:23 +0000 http://www.ignisfatuus.com/?p=24#comment-21 I should come clean: I'm shamelessly pro-Google. I think they're generally more concerned about the user experience than any of the other media conglomerates out there. They're also much more supportive of openness. This is probably because, unlike, say, Time Warner or The Walt Disney Corporation, Google doesn't produce any content (unless you consider a map content; this is hardly on the same level as dozens of TV channels with hundreds of shows, scores of magazines and so on). For this reason, protecting content isn't nearly as important to Google as delivering it is. This model is very consumer-oriented and, frankly, empowers the audience. There will be more on this later. Secondly, I want to give proper credit for my description of the "gift" economy. This was not my original idea, of course, but rather one described in "Channels of Discourse, Reassembled" a TV studies textbook. You can get info this book here: http://www.amazon.com/Channels-Discourse-Reassembled-Television-Contemporary/dp/0415080592/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210381895&sr=8-1 I should come clean: I’m shamelessly pro-Google. I think they’re generally more concerned about the user experience than any of the other media conglomerates out there. They’re also much more supportive of openness. This is probably because, unlike, say, Time Warner or The Walt Disney Corporation, Google doesn’t produce any content (unless you consider a map content; this is hardly on the same level as dozens of TV channels with hundreds of shows, scores of magazines and so on). For this reason, protecting content isn’t nearly as important to Google as delivering it is. This model is very consumer-oriented and, frankly, empowers the audience. There will be more on this later.

Secondly, I want to give proper credit for my description of the “gift” economy. This was not my original idea, of course, but rather one described in “Channels of Discourse, Reassembled” a TV studies textbook. You can get info this book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Channels-Discourse-Reassembled-Television-Contemporary/dp/0415080592/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210381895&sr=8-1

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