http://siliconshovel.com/books-are-just-souvenirs Digital Marketing For Superhumans Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://siliconshovel.com/books-are-just-souvenirs#comment-297 The Social Network (and You) « Foxglove Commons Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:05:04 +0000 http://siliconshovel.com/?p=163#comment-297 [...] So, if Twitter and Facebook are the conversations, what are we sharing and talking about. The answer, often, is links. And those links are frequently links to blogs. Blogs are the ground level of the social economy, the place where ideas are given the room to become complete thoughts. Perhaps a better phasing for this slide would have been “the beef”, because it’s the answer to the famous fast-food question. We need blogs. We need all the rest of the content of the internet, but blogs are most relevant to this discussion because they’re the most common method of personal long-form content production. It may be silly to say it out loud here in 2011, but blogs are for the people. They do, however, require writing, and writing tends to require thinking, and thinking is hard. Is it too much to say that blogs are the books of the now? Will a book, as it evolves, have real differences from our current conception of a blog? Craig Mod (of Flipboard and other smart things) recently wrote about the “post-artifact” book, the way that the idea of the book changes in the digital environment. He makes the point that the life cycle of the book is extended, outside its moment as a physical thing (the “artifact”), into a timeline that includes the its own writing and production and continues through to the communication and community surrounding the social experience of the artifact, into an idea of a book that feels a lot like a blog with a souvenir. (Which is something Seth Godin has been arguing for years.) [...] [...] So, if Twitter and Facebook are the conversations, what are we sharing and talking about. The answer, often, is links. And those links are frequently links to blogs. Blogs are the ground level of the social economy, the place where ideas are given the room to become complete thoughts. Perhaps a better phasing for this slide would have been “the beef”, because it’s the answer to the famous fast-food question. We need blogs. We need all the rest of the content of the internet, but blogs are most relevant to this discussion because they’re the most common method of personal long-form content production. It may be silly to say it out loud here in 2011, but blogs are for the people. They do, however, require writing, and writing tends to require thinking, and thinking is hard. Is it too much to say that blogs are the books of the now? Will a book, as it evolves, have real differences from our current conception of a blog? Craig Mod (of Flipboard and other smart things) recently wrote about the “post-artifact” book, the way that the idea of the book changes in the digital environment. He makes the point that the life cycle of the book is extended, outside its moment as a physical thing (the “artifact”), into a timeline that includes the its own writing and production and continues through to the communication and community surrounding the social experience of the artifact, into an idea of a book that feels a lot like a blog with a souvenir. (Which is something Seth Godin has been arguing for years.) [...]

]]> http://siliconshovel.com/books-are-just-souvenirs#comment-290 Seth Godin, los libros y la importancia del Souvenir | ESUMA Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:58:59 +0000 http://siliconshovel.com/?p=163#comment-290 [...] Poca gente me hace pensar com Seth Godin. No sólo por su estilo directo, provocador, si no porque como dicen los americanos, “he puts his money where his mouth is”. Que se juega los cuartos con sus ideas, vamos. Era lógico que el primer libro que publicase bajo su Domino Project fuese uno escrito por si mismo, Poke the Box, y disponible en versión Kindle (al fin y al cabo, Amazon está metida en el invento) a $11.49, en tapa dura a $9.95 (más barato que el anterior, como cada vez es más frecuente) y en edición de lujo de $75. Y mientras le daba al carrito de Amazon para comprar el que todos podéis suponer, recordé un par de artículos suyos sobre el futuro de los libros de papel que vienen ni al pelo, y que se resumen en estas dos Sethgodiniadas: [...] [...] Poca gente me hace pensar com Seth Godin. No sólo por su estilo directo, provocador, si no porque como dicen los americanos, “he puts his money where his mouth is”. Que se juega los cuartos con sus ideas, vamos. Era lógico que el primer libro que publicase bajo su Domino Project fuese uno escrito por si mismo, Poke the Box, y disponible en versión Kindle (al fin y al cabo, Amazon está metida en el invento) a $11.49, en tapa dura a $9.95 (más barato que el anterior, como cada vez es más frecuente) y en edición de lujo de $75. Y mientras le daba al carrito de Amazon para comprar el que todos podéis suponer, recordé un par de artículos suyos sobre el futuro de los libros de papel que vienen ni al pelo, y que se resumen en estas dos Sethgodiniadas: [...]

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