Jan 6, 2010
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That sat on my screen for about 45 minutes before I decided that it wasn’t a dick move. Sure, it’s a one-letter mistake (“horseman” should be “horsemen”) in a blog post from five months ago, but I actually really like that post. I like it so much that I care that there’s a tiny little mistake in there. I’m not posting this to fish for a Like from Mr. M — it’s just that I have an ongoing obsession with “New Media” and the ways that it’s different to “Old Media.” The idea of being able to go and retroactively change what you wrote after publishing doesn’t blow enough people’s minds, in my opinion. It’s like introducing software patches to book publishing. Here in 2010, version 1.0 of something (a blog post, software, a piece of music, a book) isn’t always the final product, and that interests me for two reasons — (1) because you can put something out there quickly and not worry so much about how it’s not “finished,” and (2) because having a 1.0 product has the potential to feel like a special little private thing that you and a small group of people shared. Anyway, don’t get me started. This stuff gives me a nerdboner. I don’t know if Merlin’s going to fix the horseman/horsemen thing, but I definitely got myself a little idea to tinker with for the rest of the day. So there’s that.

That sat on my screen for about 45 minutes before I decided that it wasn’t a dick move. Sure, it’s a one-letter mistake (“horseman” should be “horsemen”) in a blog post from five months ago, but I actually really like that post. I like it so much that I care that there’s a tiny little mistake in there.

I’m not posting this to fish for a Like from Mr. M — it’s just that I have an ongoing obsession with “New Media” and the ways that it’s different to “Old Media.” The idea of being able to go and retroactively change what you wrote after publishing doesn’t blow enough people’s minds, in my opinion. It’s like introducing software patches to book publishing.

Here in 2010, version 1.0 of something (a blog post, software, a piece of music, a book) isn’t always the final product, and that interests me for two reasons — (1) because you can put something out there quickly and not worry so much about how it’s not “finished,” and (2) because having a 1.0 product has the potential to feel like a special little private thing that you and a small group of people shared.

Anyway, don’t get me started. This stuff gives me a nerdboner. I don’t know if Merlin’s going to fix the horseman/horsemen thing, but I definitely got myself a little idea to tinker with for the rest of the day. So there’s that.

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