Last week Bonnie noticed that there's a mangaka cafe in Japan – a cafe with the usual food, drinks, and internet, but also spaces and resources for artists to work in. Of course, you know me – I had to speculate on if this might be a good idea in the United States/North America.
Anime and Animation
Backlog and The End of Backlog
So the iPad is here to deliver our media, tablets are on their way to challenge the iPad, smartphones are there when we don't have tablets . . .
There's going to be a lot of way to get our content in the future.
Of course, not all that content is going to be new content. Past games will be recompiled or emulated. Comics wlll be scanned, books digitized or re-digitized. New content is going to compete with old content.
I've speculated before about this competition – simply delivering old content in many ways is faster and cheaper, and represents a huge backlog of easy-to-deploy content. For those of us in the content/media business, a truly geeky area, that's important as it will affect what we do and what we produce. We need to observe this competition.