Respect the snack attack?
Connie Bensen (not Connie Benson) looped me into a conversation that Jeremiah Oywang generated, Do you respect Media Snackers? This is an interesting question.
Text
- Email - Yes ... I write the shortest emails possible
- Twitter - Use it all the time, short bursts of info, some silly some less so
- Blogging - I am ok at writing in bursts, though at times I get a bit verbose
- Wikis - The shortest complete information
- Specs - Clinically terse
- Linkage - I post a lot of links to a lot of places. Feed the snack habit!
Audio
- Podcast - I don't (though I consider it), no respect there
- Convos - In many ways, I speak like I Twitter
- Presos - As with art, I focus purely on what's necessary
Video
- I don't post a lot of video, though I think this is in my future
Art
- I pull out as much as I can to focus purely on what's necessary
Design
- Huge believer in simplicity and elegance
I was deliberately trying to make that digestible to my snacker brethren. :)
I have to say that I am not a huge fan of the definition provided as to what constitutes a Media Snacker: young people. In my mind, Media Snackers are not just the young; these snackers are a class of folks who like their info in chunks. These are the people who used to buy singles; they now download single tracks, they are the folks who made the original Napster the hit it was.
I think it is a broad base of generalists: they grasp the superficial information pertaining to the things they care about, rather than going way deep. These are also the people who listen to Terry Gross as opposed to Terry Gross herself (who reads almost every author she interviews.) Every afternoon brings a new incredibly rich topic, covered with brevity.
