Participatory Media: April 2006 Archives
Podcasting is lame. Theres a study that proves it.
Working on the design of our (Xin, Quanya, Fino) PPM final project (and Fino's thesis). Check out the progress. Also, check out the user experience flow-chart.
An article on WebUser.co.uk reports that most internet users are [leaches]—they don't participate. So what does this mean for largely participatory media? I don't know. What I do know is that the tools are there, and freely accessible to create and participate and so on and so forth. I'd like to see statistics on the effects levels of accesibility (of creative and publishing tools, as well as social software) has on the levels of participation. Statistics like those spewed forth in this article mean nothing. They are given no context, just branded the negative—diminishing the validity of accessible media and the products thereof.
Why is there such an effort to reinvent television on the web? We already have TV, thanks, and it sucks.
