{"id":1341,"date":"2009-03-16T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-03-16T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T07:22:16","slug":"best-readkutiman-big-media-and-the-future-of-creative-entrepreneurship-43-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/16\/best-readkutiman-big-media-and-the-future-of-creative-entrepreneurship-43-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Read:Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship &#124; 43 Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Because, even in the face of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bullying\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bullying\">bullying<\/a>, obfuscating, and throat-clearing from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Corporation\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corporation\">corporations<\/a> with a homemade timetable for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Evolution\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution\">evolution<\/a>, more and more folks like Kutiman will just keep making and releasing stuff.<\/strong> Cool stuff, \u201cillegal\u201d stuff, niche stuff, and stuff that doesn\u2019t require the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benediction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benediction\">benediction<\/a> of a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Middle age\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_age\">middle-aged<\/a> executive in order to reach its precise audience with almost zero <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Friction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friction\">friction<\/a> or overhead.<br \/>\nAnd, that prospect should <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Buoy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buoy\">buoy<\/a> and energize anybody with a scintilla of artistic <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Entrepreneurship\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entrepreneurship\">entrepreneurship<\/a> or the drive to just try making and offering their own stuff in their own way.<br \/>\nMan. What an exciting time this is. Seriously. We may not each have Kutiman-level talent and vision, <strong>but there\u2019s absolutely never been a better time to at least give it a throw.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Remember: the only person who can sit on your ass is you.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2009\/03\/11\/kutiman\">Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship | 43 Folders<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/bbdc3107-bbed-42f3-bbff-ff9e49b7502d\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, even in the face of bullying, obfuscating, and throat-clearing from corporations with a homemade timetable for evolution, more and more folks like Kutiman will just keep making and releasing stuff. Cool stuff, \u201cillegal\u201d stuff, niche stuff, and stuff that doesn\u2019t require the benediction of a middle-aged executive in order to reach its precise audience &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/16\/best-readkutiman-big-media-and-the-future-of-creative-entrepreneurship-43-folders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Read:Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship &#124; 43 Folders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[234,275,387,513,609,796,901,945],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","tag-big-media","tag-bullying","tag-corporation","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-future-of-creative-entrepreneurship","tag-kids-and-teens","tag-mass-media","tag-middle-age"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}