Brooke Geery

the internet

Things I am Good at Part 3: The Internet

Part of me is scared to write this post. I think it's the part of me that sat in a college class and listened to a "real journalist" tell us that if we wanted to get a job we needed to be a little bit paranoid. But the Internet (hack, gag, blogging, but I prefer to use the all encompassing term "The Internet") is different. There is no such thing as exclusivity, and the only security you have is to do it better than everyone else. If you're like that old media part of me, you might wonder, why I would want to share my keys to perceived success? The…
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In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
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Things I am Good at Part 3: The Internet

Part of me is scared to write this post. I think it's the part of me that sat in a college class and listened to a "real journalist" tell us that if we wanted to get a job we needed to be a little bit paranoid. But the Internet (hack, gag, blogging, but I prefer to use the all encompassing term "The Internet") is different. There is no such thing as exclusivity, and the only security you have is to do it better than everyone else. If you're like that old media part of me, you might wonder, why I would want to share my keys to perceived success? The…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
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