I’m in Harvard at the moment and I have to say that I’m really excited and happy about the place where I am… but in the same time I’m pretty scared because I’m meeting all the people that I see on Internet and that I hear about… I’m happy to be here and I will try to post some updates on Twitter…
Today in 1944 was born George Lucas, and here is a quote… “We say, ‘We think you are a talented, functioning person, and we are hiring you because of your abilities, and whatever you come up with, we’re going to take.’ If we make a mistake, it will be in picking the wrong person. What we’re striving for is total freedom, where we can finance our pictures, make them our way, release them where we want them released and be completely free to express ourselves. That’s very hard to do in the world of business. In this country, the only thing that speaks is money and you have to have the money in order to have the power to be free. So the danger is — in being as oppressive as the next guy to the people below you. We’re going to do every possible to avoid that pitfall. But if we fail, it’s another saga in the history of man…”
Those are me and my Girlfriend, to make yours go and see www.faceyourmanga.com. That is a cool application that Internet offer to people… 
Easy simple, fast and addicting, once you start you will start making the Manga of all your friends and relatives…
A couple of moments ago I have seen the last video post of Loren Feldman on 1938 Media… and I was really surprised… and sincerely not in a Good way… It’s more or less 5 months that I proudly follow Loren on his Blog, and I enjoyed really a lot his sincerity and creativity… I loved the puppet show… but I was shocked when he said that he is gong to charge 0.99$ for some of his episodes…
He has a good point, he has to gain something form his work… I think that he is right, period… but what it is strange to me is a couple of things. I always thought that Loren was something against in Gaining money from Blogging, saying to people that he gains money not by blogging, but by having a job… and that he blogs just for fun… and I still agree in this opinion. Then arrived the puppets and Zong, he got money for is creativity and got a sponsor… I’m really happy for him, but I think that something changed. He says that he is going to charge for some episodes 0.99$ and that is an experiment. The experiment involves his sponsor… to access to the content you have to send an SMS to the sponsor and the sponsor sends you a code to access to the content… so you spend 99 cents for a SMS that Zong will get a part of it (looking for incoming carrier fees), of that money a part comes to Loren (that’s my guess anyway). So Loren is making money not only for himself, but also for the sponsor… that will be a good experiment regarding the possibility to distribute content over the internet using mobile services…
A couple of questions come on my mind… The code that Zong will provide expires after 7 days, so after that for you to see the content there is the need to send an another SMS. Now thinking about what iTunes offer… for 1.99$ I can get an episode of Lost, I can see it without any kind of restrictions… and Apple gets only a really small part of the profit from the selling. I really hope that the episodes would be really of hi-quality for the content and for other factors.
In my opinion that experiment is a try that can get to something different, but there is the need to consider that for a lot of people Internet has to be free and the included content that is generated. At the end the only ones that are going to pay are users that has some ethic about supporting the creation and the fatigue of the creator… like the people that buys the episodes of Lost on iTunes instead of downloading it on a torrent. It’s up to the user… but in my opinion 0.99$ are too much, there is the need of a great value of the episode, because if you are following lot of video blogs and they start to do the same thing of Loren a user is going to spend lot of money, and is not going to be cheap… following lots of people… so users would abandon and select other free platform and video bloggers.
For Loren will start a big marketing and creative campaign to create addicted users, that are going to pay for content… will see the result of the experiment… I have some doubt on some points… but there is the need to try…
Today Post will be about Music and communication. The most of our internet communications are text based, if we think about blogging, mail, chat, microblogging, everything is text based, we use graphic signs to communicate what we wanna say to others. That works perfectly most of the time… sometimes we use also iconic conventions to transmit to others our feeling, the best examples are emoticons that we put with the text messages to show our feeling… that is a good way, mostly because sometimes written text can be misunderstood… how many times you write smethig ambiguous and that beig mistaken by the other party… I had this problems a lot…
Other ways that people tries is to change the type of font used… for example screaming or shouting can be done by writing the message in capitol letters… or for example written in a different color, for example red for being angry and light blue to transmit “peace of spirit” to the other user…
When we wanna send a message to an another people, we send a content of meaning, that is the nucleus of the information that we wanna transmit to others, but with it (without knowing) we transmit also “meta informations” that are something like a shield around the principal meaning, those are emotions, the environment that is around us, the relation with the receiver of the message… those second kind of informations can’t be transmitted by a simple text message… so why “Music” in the title… maybe that could be the better way to transmit emotions with the text that we write… of course this way can create some problems of fruition, mostly because text is seen, but sound is heard, and two ways are needed to understand the content that has been transmitted… Music is embedded in the human hearth, listening to music that we love makes us happy, and listening to music that we hate makes us feeling bad… similar is the way that we listen to songs… a song can have the best lyric in the world, but if the music is awful, the words wouldn’t be considered for their beauty… and the same happens in the opposite side.
Music in my opinion could be used to send the meta informations, but there will be a problem of fruition… emoticons can work, but are limited to the number of them available, Music can be always different…
The last line of this post will be a song from my favorite Italian Singer, Luciano Ligabue (he is the only Italian that I listen)… he wrote a love song that in my opinion is a double layer love song… is great in the layer of the words and great in the layer of the music…
