(iverson's) currentbuzz: Regicide is Painless: Killing the idea that content is king

Very interesting blog, Print is Dead, and particular post by Jeff Gomez. He will be a speaker at wemedia next week and I am looking forward to live blogging the session. This dovetails nicely with today's Joh Markoff's NYTimes story about Adobe "Air," MS silverlight, and the increasingly non-existent boundary between PC and Web. I am one of the impatient kind of folk who want the info when they want it, without having to find a "terminal" of any specific make or model...

“sharing economy,” where people don’t trade money in a typical transaction but instead give their time to create or share something with a community (e.g. Wikipedia, which was mentioned a dozen times in the morning sessions alone). One sessions later, author Douglas Rushkoff, in a speech entitled “Whose Story is This, Anyway? When Readers Become Writers,” doing his own bit to kill the idea of content being king, said that “contact is king.” Rushkoff’s idea is that the main point of content is to offer people the opportunity to socialize.

Source: printisdeadblog.com via biverson