Beyoncé releases an album – within a week it's as if it had never happened
Why the revolution in digital distribution has made the delivery of news, music and entertainment more significant than the content
On 13 December last year Beyoncé, the biggest music star on the planet, released a new album called Beyoncé. They say it sold a million digital copies in six days. That in itself was not surprising. On the seventh day, it was as if she had never even released an album due to the fact that no one was even talking about it. It seemed like everyone just wasn't bothered. That's a reflection of how much the revolution in distribution has changed the game known as the music industry. The music business has come to terms with something that the rest of the entertainment and media world is dealing with in differing ways. Despite the repeated pieties about the magic of creativity and the special skills of writers, image makers and personalities, content is not king.
Its now all about the delivery and the way artists are promoting their albums. Its not just a matter of the content, timing is now also a contributing factor.
YouTube and iTunes are just two of the brand names that were largely unknown 12 years ago but have now eclipsed all the record labels in all the world. It's similar elsewhere. The delivery mechanisms are the new stars. These are either free or they feel as if they're free, they touch us all in a way that individual products don't and they're designed by people so attuned to our inner child that they can make us hug ourselves from sheer delight. It's increasingly our expectation that there will be more revolutions in the means of delivery than there will be in the things delivered. We wait in a permanent state of arousal for the new, new thing.
Publisher's 'conversational' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight takes on Vox and Washington Post's Wonkblog
The New York Times has launched a new site featuring a combination of data-driven and explanatory reporting. It faces stiff competition from other high-profile rivals including the Washington Post's Wonkblog and Vox Media and Ezra Klein’s explanatory journalism site Vox. The paper first announced the project in March and has been working on it since Nate Silver left the paper and took his FiveThirtyEight blog to ESPN.The Upshot combines analysis of the news with data visualisations.
The Upshot's editor, David Leonhardt, a former Washington bureau chief and economics columnist at the New York Times, wrote on its Facebook page on Monday that "the site's main goal is to help people to better understand big, complex stories like Obamacare, inequality and the real-estate and stock markets".
"...by writing in a direct, plain-spoken way, the same voice we might use when writing an email to a friend. We’ll be conversational without being dumbed down.
"We will build on all of the excellent journalism the New York Times is already producing, by helping readers make connections among different stories and understand how those stories fit together."
In my opinion I think that this idea and website consists of a great foundation concept as it is helping people to understand thee news. The news can be quite boring and time consuming to sit down and watch therefore this site will make it less of a chore for the younger generation to find out what's going on. Furthermore, it's use of interactivity will help non computer literate users gain the information they need with ease.
The Upshot's editor, David Leonhardt, a former Washington bureau chief and economics columnist at the New York Times, wrote on its Facebook page on Monday that "the site's main goal is to help people to better understand big, complex stories like Obamacare, inequality and the real-estate and stock markets".
"...by writing in a direct, plain-spoken way, the same voice we might use when writing an email to a friend. We’ll be conversational without being dumbed down.
"We will build on all of the excellent journalism the New York Times is already producing, by helping readers make connections among different stories and understand how those stories fit together."
In my opinion I think that this idea and website consists of a great foundation concept as it is helping people to understand thee news. The news can be quite boring and time consuming to sit down and watch therefore this site will make it less of a chore for the younger generation to find out what's going on. Furthermore, it's use of interactivity will help non computer literate users gain the information they need with ease.
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