{"id":836,"date":"2008-05-03T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/how-times-change-how-books-change\/"},"modified":"2008-05-03T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T22:52:20","slug":"how-times-change-how-books-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/how-times-change-how-books-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How times change; how books change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jakebouma\/109039319\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/53\/109039319_60a76e514b_m_d.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Studying for class by jakebouma\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPenguin&#8217;s promoting some exploration of the concept of &#8220;book&#8221; in their <a href=\"http:\/\/wetellstories.co.uk\/\"><em>We tell stories<\/em> series<\/a>, where six authors have contributed new works, each of which explores some aspect of on-line story-telling, sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of these are equally successful (I thought the idea of &#8220;The 21 steps&#8221; was better than the execution).  My favorite of these is probably <a href=\"http:\/\/wetellstories.co.uk\/stories\/week5\/\">&#8220;Hard times&#8221;<\/a>, by Matt Mason and Nicholas Felton.  It&#8217;s a short, but (for me) very effective collection of data points making it clear how much things have changed and are changing, and hinting about what it might all mean down the road.  Most of the info was at least somewhat familiar to me, but I love the way the details are brought together into a compact compelling argument &#8212; a sort of data poetry.<\/p>\n<p>From Part VII:  &#8220;Ideas are travelling faster&#8221; (crediting the data to Seth Goodin&#8217;s <em>Unleashing the idea virus<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe time required to achieve Ten Million Users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radio:  40 years<\/li>\n<li>Television:  15 years<\/li>\n<li>Netscape:  3 years<\/li>\n<li>Hotmail and Napster:  &lt; 1 year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Part IX-A has a tremendous title &#8212; &#8220;Our parents killed bad ideas with music.  We kill bad ideas with new buiness models&#8221; &#8212; and delivers excellently on that promise.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jakebouma\/\">jakebouma<\/a> for the cool photo.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/books\/\" title=\"Books\">Books<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/change\/\" title=\"change\">change<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/media-distribution\/\" title=\"media distribution\">media distribution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/statistics\/\" title=\"statistics\">statistics<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/twilight-of-the-novel\/\" title=\"Twilight of the novel? (2 Dec 07)\">Twilight of the novel?<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/25\/squeak-book-available-under-creative-commons-license\/\" title=\"Squeak book available under Creative Commons license (25 Nov 07)\">Squeak book available under Creative Commons license<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguin&#8217;s promoting some exploration of the concept of &#8220;book&#8221; in their We tell stories series, where six authors have contributed new works, each of which explores some aspect of on-line story-telling, sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books. Not all of these are equally successful (I thought the idea of &#8220;The 21 steps&#8221; was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/how-times-change-how-books-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How times change; how books change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[8,4,17],"tags":[862,74,102,316],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1737,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/06\/23\/such-a-gift-24-years-with-weathergrrrl\/","url_meta":{"origin":836,"position":0},"title":"Such a gift: 24 years with WeatherGrrrl","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"23 Jun 13","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026a commodity has value and a gift does not. 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