Comments on: There will be two types of people: content creators and non-content creators

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:36:38 +0000

Hi Jack, yes absolutely, everyone is a consumer of media in its myriad forms – never suggested otherwise. But I do think there will be a big difference between those who do things to make themselves visible and those who don’t.

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:26:45 +0000

Does it have to be completely black and white? Of course, there will always be people who only consume. But I wager that there are plenty of “content creators” who want to spend some of their time in consumption mode. I think this is similar to the discussion about participants vs non-participants (“lurkers”). We all do it at some point, I think.

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:19:48 +0000

Hiya Drivelry, yep the shorter the more likely it is to get done :-)

By: @Drivelry

@Drivelry — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:39:02 +0000

198 words?
No pressure Ross, no pressure.

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:17:51 +0000

Thanks for this Ross.
@Paul: Ha, waiting for death. I don’t see it as that bleak, but I too have been thinking about these two camps and how the gap between them is widening.
As I wrote in January (https://anastasiaashman.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/magical-thinking/) , I’m afraid the future will be divided between digital natives and immigrants on one side, and a group mystified by how we know so much. I can see it’s already a problem. Until I started creating my own content on line (I started with Twitter, moved to a blog and now run a community site) I wasn’t compelled to learn much more about what was happening online, and there was little focus to my ‘web-surfing’ activities.
Creating content is more than simply a commitment to create content. It’s a commitment to join a community (more likely several) of other content creators whose journeys intersect yours.

By: Paul Kiser

Paul Kiser — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:38:00 +0000

For some this may seem to be a very simple point, but it is a very GOOD point. You can try to have an invisible life, but in 2010 that is the equivalent of saying, “I’ve learned all I want to learn, I’ve taught I’ll I can teach, so now I wait for death.”