Monday, February 27, 2006
Micromedia: What the Hell Is It?
There is a new movement in media. The days of the excepting all the crap that Big Hollywood Media Giants release for the masses to consume are nearing its end. Now the consumers have a choice. An outlet where media content of there personal choice is not only respected, but is expected and demanded. In the new outlet, a consumer can find information on any topic in a mutliply forms of media by people who are passionate about that topic. Or the ability to watch, listen, or read any program where and whenever a customer wants. This outlet is called small media or Micromedia.
Why Micomedia? Two reasons. One, most of this media is consumed on a small portable media device, mp3 player, portable media player, pda, or cell\smartphone. Reason two, a lot of this media is made by small production teams and cost very little to produce. Now you might be asking what is the micromedia people are consuming? One of them your are reading right now, a blog. Micromedia is the world of blogging, podcasting, picture blogs, online comics, flash media(games and movies), and machinima. All of these productions can be done on a very small budget, not a lot of people, and put on various media devices. The great thing about micromedia is the barriers to entry are low. Anybody can get into this business. This can be good and bad(that is a dissucion all to itself).
Mediatech101 looks at the hardware, software, and services that are offered or need to be offered in micromedia. First will be a look at RSS\Atom, then audio format wars, video format wars, blog search engines, and analysis of services in each segment.
Our sister blog Mediaology101 (which this same post is on) will be analyzing each segment of the micromedia, the advantages and disadvantage, opprotunities and pitfalls, and the best way to enter each segment. Mediaology101 main purpose is to analyze the industry of micromedia as a whole, looking at trends, and predicting what the industry's future. The analysis will first be looking at blogs, then podcasting, piture blogs, online comics, flash, and last machinima.
I hope people can enjoy and benefit from both of these blogs. ¶ 3:56 AM
Why Micomedia? Two reasons. One, most of this media is consumed on a small portable media device, mp3 player, portable media player, pda, or cell\smartphone. Reason two, a lot of this media is made by small production teams and cost very little to produce. Now you might be asking what is the micromedia people are consuming? One of them your are reading right now, a blog. Micromedia is the world of blogging, podcasting, picture blogs, online comics, flash media(games and movies), and machinima. All of these productions can be done on a very small budget, not a lot of people, and put on various media devices. The great thing about micromedia is the barriers to entry are low. Anybody can get into this business. This can be good and bad(that is a dissucion all to itself).
Mediatech101 looks at the hardware, software, and services that are offered or need to be offered in micromedia. First will be a look at RSS\Atom, then audio format wars, video format wars, blog search engines, and analysis of services in each segment.
Our sister blog Mediaology101 (which this same post is on) will be analyzing each segment of the micromedia, the advantages and disadvantage, opprotunities and pitfalls, and the best way to enter each segment. Mediaology101 main purpose is to analyze the industry of micromedia as a whole, looking at trends, and predicting what the industry's future. The analysis will first be looking at blogs, then podcasting, piture blogs, online comics, flash, and last machinima.
I hope people can enjoy and benefit from both of these blogs. ¶ 3:56 AM
