Comments on: How Not to Think About New Media http://www.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Glenn http://www.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10341 Glenn Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:44:35 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10341 I see a lot of this as going back to keys you have identified in the past... approaching New Media not just trying to figure out how to work the system, and really, even more than learning how the system operates. Rather, work to find what you can do FOR the system, be it adding to the collective information pool of Wikipedia, freely offering insight and expertise, or even just trying to produce innovative ideas, rather than always only consuming. I don't think you can learn the system without getting your hands dirty. I see a lot of this as going back to keys you have identified in the past… approaching New Media not just trying to figure out how to work the system, and really, even more than learning how the system operates. Rather, work to find what you can do FOR the system, be it adding to the collective information pool of Wikipedia, freely offering insight and expertise, or even just trying to produce innovative ideas, rather than always only consuming.

I don’t think you can learn the system without getting your hands dirty.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10340 Chris Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:19 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10340 The quote from the PR release on BlueCollarOrDie's death is interesting: "I used to think it daunting to succeed in television, but compared to the Internet, where's there's millions of sites, how do you attract an audience?" he said. "And when you do, how do you monetize? It's so crowded it's impossible to stand out." I haven't figured out the system entirely but I know that it rewards honesty and value. It's actually easy to 'stand out' if you give someone something that they didn't know they needed. The quote from the PR release on BlueCollarOrDie’s death is interesting:

“I used to think it daunting to succeed in television, but compared to the Internet, where’s there’s millions of sites, how do you attract an audience?” he said. “And when you do, how do you monetize? It’s so crowded it’s impossible to stand out.”

I haven’t figured out the system entirely but I know that it rewards honesty and value. It’s actually easy to ‘stand out’ if you give someone something that they didn’t know they needed.

]]> By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10339 Ryan Holiday Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:43:58 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10339 Dude, c'mon. For like two years now I've been passing along everything that I've learned in real time, as I am learning it. Plus I have a book list filled with like 15 books to begin with. I'll do more but there's more than enough out there already to start. Dude, c’mon. For like two years now I’ve been passing along everything that I’ve learned in real time, as I am learning it. Plus I have a book list filled with like 15 books to begin with.

I’ll do more but there’s more than enough out there already to start.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10338 Ryan Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:32:52 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/how-not-to-think-about-new-media/#comment-10338 "That gives you one crucial task: Figure out how the system works." So for someone that doesn't really know how the system works but is ready and willing to learn, where do you recommend they begin? Any books or articles? Or is this something that can only be learned by doing, which makes it impossible for any one person or group to explain how this or that aspect of the new media "works"? I'm eager to figure it out, but if you just say "you have internet, you are interested, get out there and immerse yourself in it" then I'm afraid I have no idea where to begin. “That gives you one crucial task: Figure out how the system works.”

So for someone that doesn’t really know how the system works but is ready and willing to learn, where do you recommend they begin? Any books or articles? Or is this something that can only be learned by doing, which makes it impossible for any one person or group to explain how this or that aspect of the new media “works”? I’m eager to figure it out, but if you just say “you have internet, you are interested, get out there and immerse yourself in it” then I’m afraid I have no idea where to begin.

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