{"id":26233,"date":"2010-10-15T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/whats-a-media-inventor-anyway-heres-my\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T21:22:08","slug":"whats-a-media-inventor-anyway-heres-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/whats-a-media-inventor-anyway-heres-my\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>what\u2019s a media inventor, anyway? Here\u2019s my (totally made-\u200b\u200bup) definition: It\u2019s somebody primarily interested in content who also experiments with new technol\u00adogy, new processes, and new formats. Allen Lane was a media inventor. Early bloggers were media inventors. Right now, the indie videogame scene is full of media inventors. Fundamentally, I think, a media inventor is someone who isn\u2019t satisfied with the suite of formats that have been handed down to him by his culture (and econaomy). Novel, novella, short story; album, EP, single; RPG, RTS, FPS\u2014a media inventor doesn\u2019t like those choices. It turns out a media inventor feels compelled to make the content and the container. Something like that, anyway. Update: Frank Chimero connects media invention to Carmen Sandiego and Citizen Kane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/robinsloan.com\/2010\/1727\">What\u2019s a media inventor? &gt; Robin Sloan<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what\u2019s a media inventor, anyway? Here\u2019s my (totally made-\u200b\u200bup) definition: It\u2019s somebody primarily interested in content who also experiments with new technol\u00adogy, new processes, and new formats. Allen Lane was a media inventor. Early bloggers were media inventors. Right now, the indie videogame scene is full of media inventors. Fundamentally, I think, a media inventor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1138,1135,1136,1137],"class_list":["post-26233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-coin-a-phrase","tag-media-inventor","tag-neologism","tag-portmanteau-word","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6P7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}