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Amrita | tinku gallery · 1 year ago

Hi Matthew,
I did watch Randy Pausch's entire lecture online, after reading about it in the WSJ. The article didn't mention there was a YouTube video but Googled his name right away and found it.

I got 2 main points from your post: 1) online media helps accelerate what would have taken much longer before things like YouTube existed. 2) content is King

There is so much buzz these days around viral marketing and social media that companies are forgetting that they have to have something compelling to say, or all the technology in the world won't do them any good.

--Amrita
mathewi · 1 year ago

That's an excellent point, Amrita. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Maggy Young · 1 year ago

I interpreted the post a slightly different way. Masses of meaningless content goes viral, because that is the essence of clever promotion. And most things which go viral are meaingless or stupid.
But what the internet does is provide a means by which more significant or deeper content can surface & reach a mass market, which would have been impossible otherwise. This is one example of the under estimation of the uses of web technology.
mathewi · 1 year ago

That's an excellent point, Maggy.