When I was in High school a local radio station held a mock funeral celebrating the death of alternative music. Not that it was out of style (it was actually just coming into it’s own) The point of the funeral is that “alternative” music had now gone mainstream so it needed a new name. Maybe we should have a funeral for new media. It’s certainly not new anymore so why isn’t it just called media? We should also have a funeral for “web 2.0″ but that is just because I am sick of hearing about it.
web 2.0 = websites that actually have the potential to make money
new media = media anarchy, old men in suits have lost control of the empire and they are scared.
Leave it to the masses to buzz buzzwords to death. I think media types are especially good at this, especially when the newly-coined phrase (like Web 2.0) means nothing by itself.
When I was in High school a local radio station held a mock funeral celebrating the death of alternative music. Not that it was out of style (it was actually just coming into it’s own) The point of the funeral is that “alternative” music had now gone mainstream so it needed a new name. Maybe we should have a funeral for new media. It’s certainly not new anymore so why isn’t it just called media? We should also have a funeral for “web 2.0″ but that is just because I am sick of hearing about it.
web 2.0 = websites that actually have the potential to make money
new media = media anarchy, old men in suits have lost control of the empire and they are scared.
By: Josh on October 10, 2007
at 8:39 pm
Leave it to the masses to buzz buzzwords to death. I think media types are especially good at this, especially when the newly-coined phrase (like Web 2.0) means nothing by itself.
By: Jordy on October 10, 2007
at 11:46 pm
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By: No Guts, No Glory » The Buzz Bin on October 12, 2007
at 1:08 pm