{"id":15492,"date":"2011-09-12T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15492"},"modified":"2011-09-12T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:27:07","slug":"media-landscape-after-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/media-landscape-after-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Media landscape after 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GigaOm<\/a> runs an article on how much media landscape changed since 9\/11.<\/p>\n

But what strikes me every time I think about September 11 is how much the media landscape \u2014 particularly on the web \u2014 was transformed by those events, and how very different the world is now when it comes to how we experience real-time news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the attack happened, we were still in pre-social network era. \u00a0No Twitter or Facebook or Google+. \u00a0And even though quite a few people had blogs, the majority of the news were still coming from the TV and newspapers. \u00a0For those of you, who don’t remember, most news websites were dead for a day or two immediately after the attack. \u00a0Slashdot – a popular IT news website which is very much used to having tonnes of traffic was on the edge of collapsing too. \u00a0Here is their article for this year<\/a> with a link to the September 11th, 2011 archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I remember working in PrimeTel office at the time. \u00a0I was involved with a project that dealt with video walls and window TV ads in multiple branches of a client’s business. \u00a0I had a large 40-something-inch plasma TV mounted on a stand next to my desk. \u00a0I was working on a piece of software that would combine video clips and images into a continuous playlist. \u00a0I was using sample ads from the client as well as a bunch of landscape photography images for my tests.<\/p>\n

Once the attack happened and most of the news sites went down, we established a public folder where all colleagues could drop images and videos they found anywhere on the web and those would get automatically added to the\u00a0continuous video that was playing on the TV. \u00a0I remember it was quite something. \u00a0By the end of the day people from other departments and other floors started to come by to watch it. \u00a0I remember even the owner of the company came in for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

What I couldn’t realize then was how social that thing was. \u00a0It wasn’t me or anyone else in particular. \u00a0It was a collective effort of a few people. \u00a0Each one would come across something and then share it in the public folder. \u00a0That was very similar to how social networks like Twitter and Facebook distribute things these days. \u00a0And with the last 10 years, it was proved several times of how well this works.<\/p>\n

As Mathew Ingram notes in that GigaOm article:<\/p>\n

Now try and think about what it might have been like if September 11 happened today, with ubiquitous smartphones featuring cameras and video and web access. Although cellular networks were overloaded in the aftermath of the attacks, some Blackberry messages got out of the towers \u2014 and today, we would almost certainly have gotten a real-time flow of tweets and images and video from people in the towers, at the Pentagon, even on the plane that flew into the ground in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/strong>: Joe Wilcox of BetaNews also reminds that there was no YouTube<\/a> back then.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

GigaOm runs an article on how much media landscape changed since 9\/11. But what strikes me every time I think about September 11 is how much the media landscape \u2014 particularly on the web \u2014 was transformed by those events, and how very different the world is now when it comes to how we experience … Continue reading Media landscape after 9\/11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[286,1252,1152],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-history","tag-mass-media","tag-social-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t