Media

E3 And WWDC – It Seemed the Same

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OK, it may just be me – but this week WWDC and E3 kind of felt the same to me.

I don't know if it's a case of perspective.  Perhaps I'm just used to seeing things from a "high-level" analysis point of view and I saw them as part of the same trends and patterns.  But it didn't feel like a case of perspective; it felt like I was seeing two things that were way too much a like.

The new technology.  The analysis of the trends by the pundits.  The market talk.  The discussion of repercussions.  More new technology.  More analysis.

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Go Farther: Media Cons

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I hear the term "Media Con" be used more and more lately to refer to those cons that are just, well . . . everything.  You know a con may have started as SF, or fantasy, or anime but after awhile it's about many media in all but name.  Comic cons are certainly evolving into "geek media", and there's cons dedicated to broad media interests, or broad but specific slices (such as pulp fiction, etc.).

So in my roundup of the way cons can go farther, of course I had to speculate on what the more general/media conventions can do for career events.  This includes those cons that were always general media or evolving that way.

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Media Mutation

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I noted a few posts back that many industries, geeky industries, are in transition – or should be.  I noted that movie theaters face many challenges, and perhaps even the and of what it means to be a movie theater, or its expansion into something else. I noted publishing is changing. Many, many industries and businesses are in transition, and those in them need to keep up or the changes may well crush them.

So, yes it's important to realize that businesses are changing in this bizarre, wonderful age of technical and media mutation. Yet, if you think about it, media itself is changing. Why should we expect the media to stay the same after all -  it relies on technology which is ever-changing, so it's going to change and morph and modify itself.

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