Tim O'Reilly and Howard Rheingold and the like I lump together as people who can take abstruse things we understand because we're inside 'em and explain them in a way that gets the outsiders excited and sympathetic and interested and on our side.
Those people -- the marketers, the dead-books publishers, the businesspeople and other loathesomes who will never get it promptly charge in, stake turf in the nonexistence, launch their own lines of conferences, get on the pundit circuits, become the explainers on television and in "Time" magazine and in general totally misrepresent everything for the benefit of the guileless proles, who then, a couple years later, get excited and gibbery. And thus the Eternal September is forever renewed.
So. An endless rush of money and idiots, or purity, stagnation and death. Whee.
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Date: 2009-03-05 03:39 pm (UTC)Those people -- the marketers, the dead-books publishers, the businesspeople and other loathesomes who will never get it promptly charge in, stake turf in the nonexistence, launch their own lines of conferences, get on the pundit circuits, become the explainers on television and in "Time" magazine and in general totally misrepresent everything for the benefit of the guileless proles, who then, a couple years later, get excited and gibbery. And thus the Eternal September is forever renewed.
So. An endless rush of money and idiots, or purity, stagnation and death. Whee.