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BuckD_dc  12
02-19-2004 03:30 PM ET (US)
re>>And wouldn't it ultimately be better if the producers of pop culture were able to work with their consumers, rather than against them?

A friend was telling me yesterday about the novelist James Patterson, I think (I don't read fiction at all, so I'm pretty undependable about the facts on this) doing focus-group-style testing to discover what his readers wanted in a novel, & then giving it to them, all the way up the NYT best sellers list.

Hmm, uh. I can't help but think this would have to be a lousy way to write a book, and an awful life to live, shilling it. But maybe I'm just hung up on the specialness of the art object or something.

But I don't think making something can be a for-or-against proposition. The online taste tribes, or offline tribes for that matter, may be great at finding cool stuff. But predicting coolness? I have my doubts.

The practical and ethical untenability of predicting future cool is part of what Gibson is working in his latest book.
Malkamus  11
06-11-2003 06:08 PM ET (US)
Saw this article via www.reason.com which has a link to it from a writer whose tastes I know and trust -- sound familiar...? Article hit home, put words to what I have found both in politics and culture -- thanks, and thanks for all the cool links, I think we are at least partially in the same taste tribe or something
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