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May 17, 2006 by Jim Parker in media
I must say I am a little frightened by the title of this book The God Part of the Brain by Matthew Alper that a bright friend of mine lent me. He lent it to me two months ago - and yet it just sits there, continually staring at me.
Interestingly, I am currently engrossed in yet another book that also fully explores the God Part of the Brain - or at least the God part of life in the universe (which by default includes the brain). It is called Contact - by Carl Sagan - a book which by the way is 1000 times more significant than the movie made from it.
Nevertheless, the current flap about Nostradamus, err, I mean Da Vinci Code, got me thinking about the best story about a Code ever. And that story is contained at the end of Contact, the book (not the movie). It changed the way I look at life.
Read it, and you will never look at a circle the same again in your entire life.
by Jim Parker in Internet Business, media
It looks like the Old Media Companies have their own idea about Media 2.0. Though they’re smart enough to not call it “Media 2.0″. I think they’ve got it figured out. The mainstream media is definitely changing. I believe that Old Media is well positioned to reap the benefits of the value they are creating.
What most people forget about the Media business is that it is all about entertainment FIRST. Entertainment value is the most significant factor in the media business. Things like search cost and distribution cost and microchunking cost (sorry umair ) don’t add up to a hill of beans when it comes to true entertainment value. Media still does an outstanding job of entertaining us.
But will innovative new things in search, distribution, and reconstruction add significant value in the near future?
Absolutely, but only at the pace that the PUBLIC wants. That’s right. It’s the Users that drive demand - not the media 2.0 Pundits.
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Thanks to Anton for announcing my blog on jcu92.org (Jim Parker Checks In ). Anton is one of those friends that when you haven’t seen or talked to him in many, many years, when you finally talk to him, it is as though you had been talking to him every day for the past week.
That’s always nice.
Please welcome to the world Ethan James and Arianna Arshia Parker. Visit our family blog: Parker Family
Fred Wilson writes about a great idea for Twitter in Event Firehoses in Twitter.
I think that is a great idea. This is something I have been thinking about for quite a while. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to subscribe to an event in such a way.
For the sake of discussion, I […]
Is Microsoft coming back? No.
Is Google the next Microsoft (Microsoft which eventually doesn’t come back)? Yes.
Will Google be anywhere around $500/share in 5 years? No.
Is Apple the next Google which is the next Microsoft which eventually doesn’t come back? Yes.
Do I still wanna be the next Apple? Yes.
Dear AttentionGrab Blog,
Please pardon my absence. But don’t get me wrong, I love having this blog. I understand and accept that you have lofty ambitions for me. Those are ambitions which I share and embrace.
I’ve just been busy with life.
jim
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