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The Business of Literature and (the Algorithms of) Culturen: Richard Nash e: [email protected] t: @R_Nash
pre-1500s: Writing 1.0
early 1500s: Publishing 1.0
early 1500s: Writing 2.0
early 1500s: Writing 2.0
The Digital Publishing Revolution begins...
July 1985:
1950: 8K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1997: 120K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1997: 120K
2004: 275K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1997: 120K
2004: 275K
2010: 315K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1997: 120K
2004: 275K
2010: 315K
1950: 8K
1990: 35K
1997: 120K
2004: 275K
2010: 315K
1993: MP3 standard released
2001: iPod goes on sale
2005: ProTools on a sub$1.5K computer
The 20th century was about sorting out supply...
The 20th century was about sorting out supply...
The 21st century will be about sorting out demand.
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.—Borges, “A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw”
Content isn’t king...
culture is.
“We’re writing things that we can no longer read.”
“We’re writing things that we can no longer read.”
“As the teams have grown better at predicting human preferences, the more incomprehensible their computer programs have become, even to their creators. Each team has lined up a gantlet of scores of algorithms, each one analyzing a slightly different correlation between movies and users. The upshot is that while the teams are producing ever-more-accurate recommendations, they cannot precisely explain how they’re doing this. Chris Volinsky admits that his team’s program has become a black box, its internal logic unknowable.”—Clive Thompson in the New York Times Magazine, writing on the Netflix Prize algorithms
Novels
Novels Break
Novels Break Algorithms
Filter vs
Map
Some Stories, Few Books
Few Stories, Many Books
Many Stories, Many, Many
Books
Infinite Stories
I’m Richard Nash. You can email me anytime at [email protected] I mean it. (It’s the freemium consulting model.)There’s also Twitter: I’m @R_Nash. And my website is http://RNash.com (And my secret project is http://Sirens.io)
