{"id":1928,"date":"2013-09-20T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2013-09-20T17:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:41:19","slug":"robin-sloan-media-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1928","title":{"rendered":"Robin Sloan, media inventor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this bit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/about\/\">Robin Sloan&#8217;s About Me page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a media inventor, anyway? I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s someone primarily interested in content\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwords, pictures, ideas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho also experiments with new formats, new tools, and new technology. Allen Lane was a media inventor. Early bloggers were media inventors. The indie video game scene is full of media inventors.<\/p>\n<p>Media inventors aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t satisfied with the suite of formats available to them by default. Novel, novella, or short story; album, EP, or single; RPG, RTS, or FPS\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmedia inventors don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like those options.<\/p>\n<p>Media inventors feel compelled to make the content and the container.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds familiar, I invite you to use the label, too. And more generally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on a mission to bring back the word inventor with all its connotations: protean lightning-crackle and occasional crackpot-itude alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Preach it, Brother Sloan! Can I get an <i>a-men?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this bit from Robin Sloan&#8217;s About Me page: What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a media inventor, anyway? I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s someone primarily interested in content\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwords, pictures, ideas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho also experiments with new formats, new tools, and new technology. Allen Lane was a media inventor. Early bloggers were media inventors. The indie video game scene is full of media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-v6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}