Comments on: Cult of the Amateur http://yuzutea.net/log/2007/07/01/cult-of-the-amateur/ floating in the ether Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: worldserpent@livejournal http://yuzutea.net/log/2007/07/01/cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-78 worldserpent@livejournal Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:12:21 +0000 http://yuzutea.net/log/?p=31#comment-78 Argghh, sorry. On most of the themes, it does say that an email is required. I shall in the future change them? Argghh, sorry.

On most of the themes, it does say that an email is required. I shall in the future change them?

]]> By: insaneneko http://yuzutea.net/log/2007/07/01/cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-77 insaneneko Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:04:56 +0000 http://yuzutea.net/log/?p=31#comment-77 Ah crap, I wrote a long comment that got deleted because I didn't put in an email. The fields don't say they are required! Ah crap, I wrote a long comment that got deleted because I didn’t put in an email. The fields don’t say they are required!

]]> By: worldserpent@livejournal http://yuzutea.net/log/2007/07/01/cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-62 worldserpent@livejournal Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:29:42 +0000 http://yuzutea.net/log/?p=31#comment-62 Mm, yes, so it's all about the advertisers. Perhaps in a way this is to some extent also true of print media, because you do need to sell to more than one person to be commercially successful, but nowadays it just seems to be all centered around portals. Yeees, I saw it awhile back. I was going to talk about it, but it was mostly about SF, and my experience is mostly fantasy, and since fantasy IS often not going off real things, but going off mythos (which can be thought of as previous works?), I had a harder time applying it to that genre. (Although, I think it can, but it you have to nuance it more because SF's supposed raison d'etre is following the impact of technology, so it's easier to see why the Third Artist is an issue.) Mm, yes, so it’s all about the advertisers. Perhaps in a way this is to some extent also true of print media, because you do need to sell to more than one person to be commercially successful, but nowadays it just seems to be all centered around portals.

Yeees, I saw it awhile back. I was going to talk about it, but it was mostly about SF, and my experience is mostly fantasy, and since fantasy IS often not going off real things, but going off mythos (which can be thought of as previous works?), I had a harder time applying it to that genre. (Although, I think it can, but it you have to nuance it more because SF’s supposed raison d’etre is following the impact of technology, so it’s easier to see why the Third Artist is an issue.)

]]> By: Meril http://yuzutea.net/log/2007/07/01/cult-of-the-amateur/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Meril Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:07:17 +0000 http://yuzutea.net/log/?p=31#comment-61 That's because in the Web 2.0 <em>business</em> school of thought, you need the gathering of community in order to be valuable to advertisers and marketers. So far they haven't figured out how to market to one individual, so they have to have the aggregate. As for the fandom issue, did you see Jo Walton's post on the Third Artist Problem? I'd have to hunt down the link, but I'm almost sure you saw it. I wonder if you can call the majority of fanfic fandom prey to that problem. Walton was essentially describing fanon, I think, but as she's not in media fandom she didn't use those terms. That’s because in the Web 2.0 business school of thought, you need the gathering of community in order to be valuable to advertisers and marketers. So far they haven’t figured out how to market to one individual, so they have to have the aggregate.

As for the fandom issue, did you see Jo Walton’s post on the Third Artist Problem? I’d have to hunt down the link, but I’m almost sure you saw it. I wonder if you can call the majority of fanfic fandom prey to that problem. Walton was essentially describing fanon, I think, but as she’s not in media fandom she didn’t use those terms.

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