life and timing can be weird.
ever since i watched Made in Heaven (1987) - IMDb and opened to my mind to the fact that i could have done all of this before, wrote this text, had a relationship with that person, met them before in a passed life, passed over someones time line that somehow i would influence it’s kinda crazy about the overall influence we have in life. sometimes we know, sometimes we might never know or even question it.
In a small Pennsylvania town in 1957, Mike Shea (Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving to California with his girlfriend Brenda Carlucci. But Brenda leaves him with his motor running and Mike takes off alone. Along the way, he rescues a woman and her children from a river but perishes himself. He finds himself in Heaven, where his Aunt Lisa greets him, and explains the rules and regulations. Once in the ethereal realm, Mike falls in love with a heavenly guide named Annie Packert (McGillis).
Their love is abruptly interrupted because Annie has not yet earned her wings on Earth; she must leave on a tour of duty and put in time inhabiting a human body. Mike is beside himself with despair, but the heavenly powers, in the form of Emmett Humbird, chain-smoking and sporting an orange crew-cut, offer him a deal. Mike can return to Earth, with the stipulation neither he nor Annie will remember each other. He then has thirty years in which they must find each other again.
anyway, enough about that kinda cheesy film, let’s get into the story. ..
i’m not even sure what made me recall this little piece of grey matter, maybe i was trying to get noticed by the #originalstory people or whatever their hashtag is. yeah, maybe it was that. but up it popped anyway and i wanted to tell you the story because it's a great one. i'll try and be quick.
so i was saying at a friends apartment in meatpacking (chelsea) for those that know new york when i’m reading twitter and see a picture that’s getting a lot of traction, like, a stupid amount of views, likes and retweets, i’m not even sure why i was seeing it on my device, maybe it was early days of twitter and that feature had never seen that amount of views before, either way, i went about digging for it and found the picture.
i’m not sure but this was the guy that posted the image and the original tweet but it’s certainly not the image that got the most retweets and likes maybe another news outlet was given permission to share the picture. anyway, back to the point. this was one of a bunch of photos that were taken due to the fact that a man had his smartphone with him and was on the rescue ferry and another photo was actually from a passenger onboard the plane itself (btw, if you don’t know about this incident in the hudson from 2009 then grab the film SULLY as that was a film with tom hanks as the pilot ‘sully’ who landed the plane in the hudson in new york city — incredible story)
ok ok, but get to the point how did it change the face and direction of reuters media.
ok, now, you have to take this with a pinch of salt, i don’t know for sure if it changed the face of reuters media or if they needed to develop a new approach to instant news collection but i certainly know it was a defining moment in social media news stories collection when a picture was posted way way before any news agencies even mentioned it. in fact, they picked up the story from twitter rather than the other way around — the fact that someone was at the scene and some one had taken a picture and tweeted it was when people started to really see the power of social media for live events and things happening right now — we take that so for granted these days don’t we?
usually when it comes to the news we have reporters worldwide that can be on the scene quite quickly and cover that piece for that news network before other news networks. it’s a bit like the underground piracy scene in some ways with the whole 0 day distribution of digital assets.
the first crew to get something before another means you win the respect of the global piracy movement. you and your team got your operations, regardless of legality locked down - from the access for instance to a gold master final cd to packaging, to documentation, to cracks, to writing the .nfo file, to distribution across bulletin board systems and beyond.
if you were first you won the respect of being the best crew. it’s always been this way, remember graffiti on subway trains in new york city in the 70’s/80’s and breakdancing crews too? it’s always been about the first, the best, originality in a timely manner — i believe that the new steemit SMT will do the same thing.
the price of information right now, globally.
$1,800 per month
A fully loaded Reuters Eikon terminal costs $1,800 per month. On average Reuters users stay with a setup costing around $800 and it starts at $300 for the bare bones version. That is dwarfed by the price of the Bloomberg terminal, which clocks in over $2,200 dollars per month, before additional live fees —-10 Dec 2013
this was four years ago. i’m interested to know what the price is now and if that’s totally changed price OR if reuters spent large on building social media teams as well to feed into that terminal. if you consider just the information that is going out on the steemit blockchain that’s a lot of information to harvest, ingest and point score in regards of it being timely and relevant. i’d love to see the reuters command centre these days.
news has a cost and that news, especially breaking big news has cost that deprecentates over time. when it’s old news it’s not worth anything, but if it’s hot and breaks before someone else, is an exclusive or in the case of a random person the rescue boat having a photo up with the plane still above water and you’ve not told the world of people connected to your service that costs money to get the latest news on. well, you’ve got a problem. all of a sudden you don’t have the fastest news system anymore and then people want to know why they are paying for something when it’s no longer up to date.
when social broke the news before news did
unless you have a reported from a news agency actually part of a big story like the hudson river one you are hardly ever gonna be first, you might be able to pick up a trending story that’s getting a lot of likes and retweets very quickly, possibly within minutes but you won’t ever get the first mover advantage of the person that was onboard, taking a photo as they left the plane on the dingy (boat) away from what just happened. it was a water (sic) shed moment for social media news casting and digital information delivery in my eyes.
the new systems of today are probably much better at doing cross referencing from respected networks. i see this where the SMT token element will increase referencing between blogging authors on the steemit platform too, when information is released, often times in the mainstream press it’s cross referenced between other accounts of what’s happening from their perspective or if they TRUST their sources (fake news anyone) the faster you can make that connection, get that out and be right, then you win on the time scale of the news release.
AI i feel is going to end up locked in battle between understanding sentiment of real news and fake news, that engine and algorithm will always be flawed because it’s designed by humans, what happens when the sentiment engine knows what we expect or understand of news, what about when it can cross reference live streams, images, audio. what when it can stitch together in near real time either the real news or the fake news of a situation, how will you trust what you see is real, or real enough to you to make you react or create a reaction.
SMT will disrupt us too in ways we never considered
in a similar way to the way that must have sent shockwaves through the agency with news outlets and companies globally around the world wondering why they were paying for a terminal that DID’NT have the latest news service because a twitter user was actually there onboard and had the inclination to take a photo meant that for the first time really than before a big news story broke on another platform with no terminal cost. how can you warrant the price of something that no longer brings you the latest information or is replaced with free but faster? technology and news delivery is changing all over again i feel with smart media tokens.
all the social platforms could have done it but they never had the smarts to do it, they had years to get it right, they had years to come with a way to make it work but nobody could get micropayment right.
could apple and facebook come to the table
apple certainly looks ripe to me to do something, what with a crypto mining gpu in your pocket and ios11 feature of apple paying each other in iMessage what’s the chances of building a keyboard for steemit and smart media tokens (yes you can have that for free) just imagine what #steemgigs could be like if we can send transfers via a smart keyboard inside of imessage somehow gated into apple pay like we do converting steem and steem dollars with blocktrades - these things adapt so quickly.
fbcoin, could that be a thing, would facebook even attempt to bring in some kind of coin like that, would the world popular platform even understand it’s application, could it be a good way for facebook to sort the good media from the fake news and the low slow speed lane users access a different kind of experience from the fast lane high quality content providers on the platform? i really don’t know but i feel that steemit has the first mover advantage on this one.
ending thoughts
i really wanted to commit these thoughts to the blockchain for discovery later, i feel like in the decade or more i’ve been using twitter i’ve been putting a lot of these things there but i’ve not really been farming them away so i own them, i guess i could download all my tweets — and i totally should and put them on a blockchain for legacy, at least then it would be distributed in many locations instead of just potentially three locations (if they are doing proper enterprise backups) like it is today on twitter.
being first is a metric i’ve known about all my life. relevancy, legacy and having something packaged and put together for an audience that relates to you in the format they are used too from you is why they become an engaged member of your community. it’s also a major part of building audience development, the speed of release will always bring new people into the mix as you become to earn that peer status. you become and well know from being efficient, effective and delivering timely information and updates, you are spreading news of the pulse of the planet in your particular niche, that’s why certain bloggers have done very well over the year because they have focused all in on their perceived image.
with SMT the potential is that everyone can build their own news agency of sorts, be their own brand and have the tokens be their own nasdaq for the value of the one, or the many. the value stays in the network. it’s an asset, a floating value capital based on information, time and engagement. it’s everything a content creator could ever want without the drama of doing with the admin stuff of being paid by a middleman who does nothing but does the blood letting of the transaction between the content creator and the end user - that’s all about to change in the next year.
i’m fucking excited.
oh my god airplane accident water us and New York city photo
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this was from 2009 btw. not sure if you ever saw it.
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You just made me curious about the future my friend.
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i'll take curious over apathy any day! :) great! :)
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