Remix Culture
We live in interesting times, and yesterday I came across something I think is representative of these times.
Many years ago I remember reading an article (online, it wasn’t that long ago), where Francis Ford Coppola was remarking how incredible some new iMac was, because he had iMovie, and boy, it would inspire people to create films (or videos).
Maybe that was an interview, or a commercial. But I also remember reading about an argument Jeffrey Katzenberg was having with Steve Jobs… Jobs wanted to give movie-making tools to the average consumer; Katzenberg stated “he owned animation,” and basically, as I remember, he thought giving movie-making tools to the masses was a “bad idea.”
So, just yesterday, I run across this: instructions for making your own newspaper.
Now, when you think about it, yes, RSS feeds are kind of like that; you collect together various sources into one place, thereby creating your own digital “newspaper” of sorts. But this tip was more profound to me, for some reason, because it automated the process of collecting content together and making a new, “I could hold this in my hands” document.
I actually haven’t tried it yet, but it’s on my weekend to-do list, alongside upgrading some blogs to WP 2.5, reading some articles, and checking out sketching software… oh yeah, and mowing the lawn might be in there too.