Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

Posts Tagged ‘distribution

New Audiences and the digital fourth wall

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 25 July 2009

Working on the forthcoming book. Here’s a teaser the changed media environment…
The theatres of the Elizabethan and Stuart eras were venues where ‘a thousand townsemen, gentlemen and whores, porters and serving–men together throng’. The decorum of the modern theatre did not apply. Heckles and sometimes projectiles came at the players from every direction. To the [...]

The MP3, its origins, and its impact

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 27 April 2009

Continuing on the music theme for my forthcoming book, and the disruption caused by the Internet to established industries…
In 1996, the song ‘Until it sleeps’ by Metallica became the first track to be illegally copied from CD, encoded as an MP3, and made available on the Internet by a user operating under the nickname ‘NetFrack’. [...]


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.