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Commented on A Storm Of Stories
About the sub-sub genres: This has happened to me with music. Grooveshark (now defunct) and now Deezer allow me to find "similar artists". The site also builds a record of what I like and gives suggestions based on that. Now,...
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guthrie commented on
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Which prompts me to say "You expect this market thingy to be rational?" in response to Charlie making the reaosnable point that there should be a niche rival to Amazon....
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Julian Francis-Lawton commented on
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Future Shock - back in the 70s - suggested people would manage exploding media growth by subculture and I think that was a good prediction. I think a lot of great stuff exists and survives only in it's niche. Then you have people who cross over multiple subcultures - both creators and fans - and the fans in particular are good vectors. So you have people deeply immersed in subcultures, some of whom are indiscriminate, but some of whom are hugely discriminating, and then as a casual follower you find a critical voice that you like. In short, I think...
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icehawk commented on
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but you know about the HUGE problem with the iOS (and to a lesser extent, Google Play/Android) app store and me-too games? Things called "Angry Boids" or "Angery Birds" Spotify is terrible for this. My kids wanted to listen to "Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer". The home speaker network is connected to Spotify. Should be easy! But I wasn't home to say "Gene Autry". So they gave up, because finding an actual decent version on Spotify was too hard - they didn't want to listen to any of the dozens and dozens of covers by no-hopers. To be fair, most...
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icehawk commented on
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I'm not sure if anyone's still reading this thread, but the things said here don't add up. Richard Prior refers us to a NY time article that sends us to the OES of the BLA in the USA. That's the Occupational Employment Statistics of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's written as a refutation of the claim from a decade ago that the interwebs would destroy creative jobs because piracy. What it shows is the the number of people employed doing creative stuff hasn't changed much. I don't quite get the BLS's categories system, and found their historic data hard...
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Graydon commented on
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To the BLS, "employed" probably means "primary employment which we notice because of taxes". I'm not surprised that hasn't changed much; getting the majority of your income from a creative endeavour is difficult. Hardly anyone who self-publishes fiction is making their living at it, for example. (Not "no one", not "it's impossible", but hardly anyone in the "it's a lottery win" sense.)...
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