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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      Now, it’s not about the $... I could afford to throw another $1200/y at this without making it up in revenue, but that would feel like vanity publishing to me. It’s a bit of a personal challenge to at least break even. I’m kinda vain about keeping the blog non-vanity 😎

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      But frankly, that seems very dumb to me because I know of better ways to make money if that’s the goal. Even taking on a dull consulting gig is a more interesting way to make money than this kind of shitty media-business thinking

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      Maybe I’m just rationalizing laziness. Maybe I’d think differently if I had to make payroll for even one full time staff writer. But I’m not *that* lazy. I think a lot of the problems with new media (are we still calling it that) is pursuing uninteresting growth.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      I get why clickbait is popular and drives large, shitty media properties. At least for a while. Dumb demand is a constant. But I have to wonder about the supply side. How does someone who presumably enjoys writing choose to produce dreck rather than do almost anything else? 🤔

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      There *are* aspects of growth that attract me. Reading about Murdoch empire had me salivating at the thought of that much authoritah to boss the world around. Money per se is not that interesting, though it's nice to have a lot rather than a little.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1113491232452272128 …

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      This 3-part big read on the Murdoch empire is educational. Don’t @ me, but the phrase “Death Star of shit” crossed my mind reading it. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html …
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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      But doing it the Murdoch way, by creating zombie armies of Fox News watchers... that's not that interesting.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Apr 2019
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      I like to keep an eye open for media properties that are at the next tier of scale relative to ribbonfarm, AND interesting AND sustainable in ways I'd like to keep things interesting and sustainable. I honestly haven't found any.

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    8. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 4 Apr 2019
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      Archive of Our Own (AO3 for short) is a non-shitty site at a scale where they spend about $260 000 per year in expenses. Funded by donations. Arguable about whether it is a media property. Budget here: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10035 …

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    9. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 4 Apr 2019
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      The idea that gives the site and organization momentum is basically that transformative works, aka fanfiction, are worth paying attention to, archiving, sharing, enjoying, holding writing festivals for, tagging, etc. AO3 facilitates those things with infrastructure.

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    10. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 4 Apr 2019
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      AO3 gets way less attention than it would in a culture without a dismissive bias toward "girly" stuff such as fanfiction. It has sort of been able to grow quietly, not quite sneaking under the radar of mainstream culture, but almost.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Apr 2019
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      Is fanfiction girly? I had no idea.

      8:53 AM - 4 Apr 2019
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        2. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 4 Apr 2019
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          It's mostly written by and read by women, though men and non-binary people are not excluded, and indeed have written some famous good fics. Also, sometimes when men do write fanfic it is not talked about that way. For example, Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is a Real Person Fic.

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          Most mainstream movies and books are not written to cater to women, so there is a lot more that people want to "fix", or blanks filled in in a more pleasing manner, to make the story, characters, and world more palatable. People use their imagination and share better stories.

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