- Whenever new media tries to replicate old media, it tends to fail. When it takes advantage of the unique social and personal behaviors of this new medium, it does pretty well.
Ted breaks it down...
From the guy who was doing Web 2.0 when the rest of us were in college/high school/kindergarten:
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1. Cory Doctorow made this same point very eloquently when he addressed a group of Microsofties back in 2004.
New media don't succeed because they're like the old media, only better: they succeed because they're worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at.
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Posted at 7:16PM on Mar 3rd 2006 by Charles