Posts by Russell Brown
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Rob, your last comment is pointless trolling. Please try and make a contribution.
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They always could, I did it, all it takes is paying for it yourself but you're still in a similar place as you are with the empowered net in that you've got your wares but you still have to draw attention to it to 'sell it'. In reality that is as difficult as it ever was.
You're ragging on Mark for making generalisations, but you keep doing it yourself.
There are all kinds of opportunities to draw attention to yourself via the internet -- and, just as importantly, to run your business across distance. Just the tool of email has been an absolute boon.
Some artists and labels might not be as adept at using those those tools, or may not wish to, but to say it's "as difficult as it ever was" in a general sense is just not true.
I think the biggest problem is that there is that there is now so much more music available to customers than ever before -- that does make it harder to get noticed, but the fact that so many people are doing it suggests it's ... do-able.
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Jonathan Myerson has now weighed in with a piece in The Guardian.
I'm saying nothing.
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I've merely suggested it's going to empower some people more than others, and I stand behind that. If for no other reason that it's empowered me more than a ton of people I know.
Well, that's uncontroversial enough. I still feel like I'm missing your point though ...
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Which is not to say that the existence of a platform for dialogue that can reach a very large group indeed (perhaps unprecedently so) of students, office workers, journalists, academics and the like is a bad thing, of course it isn't. But it privileges and empowers certain people, and not others. Those people ought to perhaps try to bear it in mind, instead of assuming that they are the voice of democracy and speak for everyone.
Oh, okay caught up now. And I simply don't accept your premise. How is this internet forum exclusionary in nature compared to, ooh, pretty much any salon that has preceded it in history?
In one sense, it's easy to see the community here as homogenous; in another it's diverse in a way that I can't picture in any other setting where ideas might be discussed.
Of the 25,000 people who visit Public Address in a decent month, a much smaller group actually comments here. But even that group is a broader church than you might find in Parliament, a university common room or a boho cafe.
The NZ segment of the World Internet Project revealed some intriguing things about the uses we have found for the internet.
A majority of Maori and Pasifika people, for example, believe the internet has helped keep their languages alive. Fewer Maori use the internet than any other major ethnic group -- but that's still two out of three.
And Maori and Pasifika people who do use the internet have a higher rate of use of most online activities than Pakeha. In particular, those groups seem to use social networking applications differently -- and very intensively.
It verges on patronising to assume any particular group might not be able to handle these great tools.
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I'm curious in what ways Gio thinks people have been disempowered by it, as a source of his fears about the 'dangerous kind of thinking' involved in pointing out how empowering it has been.
The, er, what now?
The pool of literate people was small in times past too, but has anyone ever said that becoming literate was disempowering? Or is he claiming that becoming literate disempowers other people by giving you some unfair advantage?
Being able to write well confers a very big advantage in discussions here, which is why I so greatly admire Steven Crawford's hard work in getting past his dyslexia to take a full part in the community. In some ways, he's my favourite PASer of all. He's more than paid his dues to be part of it.
But without having to go through back-posts, I'll argue all day long about the empowering virtues of the internet.
Two words, basically: Trade Me. It's classless and pervasive and it does require people to interact effectively with each other through text (they also discuss the issues of the day). I also know for a fact that it has offered real options to people who had otherwise failed in the economy. Some of the top traders are in that category.
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I was quite struck by the low number (two) at the time when Tolley was being discussed.
I can think of half a dozen off the top of my head.
I'd be very interested in your polling data in temrs of professsions, but I'm sure it's confidential
I'd love to know myself, but Nielsen don't go into that detail for the money I can pay.
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I'm not quite sure what that meant. Graduating high school? Getting a scholarship? Not sure.
The Advanced Level exam is the elite qualification in Britain's secondary education system. Merely obtaining four A-Levels (the most that can be taken at most schools) would be the mark of a superior student. An A in every subject is ... ambitious.
But no pressure, kids ...
(Yes, I do feel weird casting aspersions on people I've never met and only recently heard of, but ...)
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Well, the guy sounds disturbingly zealous, but I agree with him about the importance of getting kids to maturity with a desire for fresh, varied food.
It was the "along with their four As at A level" that got me more.
Having long since been obliged to come to terms with the difference between parental dreams and real children, that kind of jumped out at me.
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