I think filters make a good metaphor for the ways the economy of ideas is changing. The old model of filters (newspapers, TV networks, publishing houses, record companies) was overwhelmed by a wave of cheap information on the internet and totally undermined. A new set of filters is trying to come into being. Gmail filters my emails. Facebook filters communications with my friends. Hulu and Netflix are vying to become filters for TV. My problem with all of these is that I have so little control over what they give to me and less over what they take from me. They seem to be deliberately obscure. This new model really bothers me, especially as the traditional editing and nurturing of new talent performed by the old economy does not yet seem to have found a model in the new economy.
In other words, I miss editors who were clearly editors.
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Date: 2014-01-01 02:22 am (UTC)In other words, I miss editors who were clearly editors.