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Hello! Good site! I'm From Khazahstan! I'm doing well!
Thank you!
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Hello! great idea of color of this siyte!
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Buon giorno! Check this out! , |
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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.
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