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Randy Pausch and the power of online media

Started by mathewi · 5 months ago

I’ve been thinking some more about Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose inspirational “last lecture” became such a phenomenon over the past six months or so, and who just passed away this weekend from pancreatic cancer. I’ve written ab ... Continue reading »

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  • Amrita | tinku gallery

    5 months 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
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  • mathewi

    5 months ago

    That's an excellent point, Amrita. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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  • Maggy Young

    5 months 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.
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  • mathewi

    5 months ago

    That's an excellent point, Maggy.
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