When I was a freelance journalist many years ago I remember there was a small but significant change in new contracts: I was no longer a “writer” but a “content provider.” This was in lieu of the coming shift in which what ever you wrote for newspapers was to be resold by the parent company across all platforms, and since we were “work for hire” we would never see another lousy dime. So this has nothing to do with the above video, but the title of the talk reminded me of the good ol’ days of journalistic exploitation and the silly notion that our meaningful work was merely “content.”
This by talk, Scotto Moore’s “Make Art Not Content,” is part of a series, Ignite Seattle!, in which speakers each do a geek talk with 20
slides, 15 seconds per slide, for a total of 5 minutes. There’s a bunch of them on YouTube.
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