New Media and Me
Me, at a very young age, already using a computer.
The other day, I was watching Leo Laporte’s TWiTLive from the New Media Expo and in the recording they briefly talked about how their are a lot of people playing with new technology but not creating anything.
This thought really got me thinking about how people my age have grown up on and around the internet and this whole concept of new media whereas others have been “fathers” to the movement.
As a child of the web 2.0 and new media era, the entire experience (at least for me) has been very passive. I spend most of my time surfing the internet, watching videos, and reading blogs written by fathers of this whole new media movement but I get absolutely nothing done. I have attempted many times, to create a podcast of some form or another but always fail because after doing multiple episodes you render yourself a fanbase of zero. I think this problem stems from the hard to penetrate market that is already dominated by giants such as Revision3, Weblogs Inc., TWiT, Gary Vaynerchuk and others who seemingly arrived to the “new media party” before us. I am incredibly envious of these giants but I must say they are on top for a reason. They produce exciting content on a daily basis with a very exstensive community to support them.
These companies and people are using incredibly innovative technology and getting content into the public eye. My problem, on the other hand, is that I love playing with the new technology but never actually put out anything that is new and exciting. A prime example is that I just jailbroke my iPhone so I could install Qik to live stream but have yet to actually use it in a productive way, the idea of live streaming video from a phone just seems really cool to me.
Hopefully I will be turning this trend of mine around in the near future by actually creating content.
