Thank you Henry Jenkins

First of all...I love suspenders. A very dear friend of mine (my second grade Sunday School teacher, Mr. Bob) passed away about a year ago. He used to always wear suspenders. It must mean good character.

Secondly, I was born in Smyrna and had my early childhood there. So, I love that he wrote for the Smyrna Neighbor.

Things I have learned:

Collective intelligence does inspire and lend itself to transparency. In a way, it almost acts as a forcing agent to keep our government and other organizations transparent. The more people know, they more likely we are to cause disturbance when the truth equilibrium in off balance. With collective intelligence comes a new standard. The world is held in new regards and has a lot greater responsibilities and obligations to live up to.

It blew my mind that the "Flow of Twitter Buzz factor" is probably one of the greatest and most accurate predictors of a film's success at the box office. As long as media outlets learn how to analyze and interpret the data that is available to them, the way consumers and providers operate will be forever changed. There has never been a more instant, consistent, and constant way of rating products or services before. Media convergence has allowed for the consumers to tell the producers, advertisers, and big media what we want. They then have access to our opinions, and then, it is up to them to respond to our interests. This benefits all.

I greatly appreciate that Jenkins does not like the term "viral" when regarding videos that have gone haywire and spread around like a good helping of PB&J. Viral just sounds so awful. It should be something more along the lines of "hot" or "widely distriubuted". I don't know; someone could come up with something creative to call them. Maybe not "distributed", but at least "widely circulated."

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