Archives for September 2006
What the comments on YouTube really mean.
Back in early 2000 my first internet job was at a failed dotcom called Lineup that wanted to be YouTube, Revver, Roo, et cetera. The company failed for many reasons — many of them the usual suspects with Bubble 1.0 startups — but the main reason was that when Lineup debuted its broadband video portal [...]
So what does “mediavorous” mean anyway?
We — and by we I mean anybody within easy reach of the internet, television, cell phones, movie theaters, books, magazines, newspapers, flyers taped to lamp posts — live surrounded by more story, more narrative, than any previous era since the first amphibian crawled out of the surf and started thinking about how to tell [...]

