Does anyone else find it annoying/disconcerting the amount of time spent in the article describing what reddit is? If reddit truly is "one of the largest communities on the Internet" and wired is a technology magazine then is that necessary? Where do they stop? "Erwin was using a computer, kind of likea type-writer with a T.V. attached to it, probably not dis-similar to the thing you're using now to read this article"
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
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#22Interesting article. The power of an idea catching on is possible through the internet. It is amazing how many shows and artists were found on YouTube. It says in the article the site's founders originally created phony accounts and posted stuff in the beginning. I wonder how many big companies did that and if any of you know the rules of it. I am happy my community is getting real people to join since it feels more authentic. You can see http://www.willlisten.com
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#23The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Very true. There are so many tens of thousands of people that think they can write movies that writing a great script is only part of the equation in getting a deal. Getting the right person to read it--or really, getting anyone that matters to read it--is just as hard as writing that great script in many ways.
And then, after you make that one in a million deal off some crazy-good pitch to the right executive, there's no guarantee that it will ever get shot. There are many writers in hollywood that have sold dozens of scripts and only ever had one or two get produced.
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#24The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
Well, much of life is luck. But, instead of great idea dying in some coffee shop, they have an outlet where the right ideas can find the right people that can execute. The key is that the Internet enables a giant magnifying glass on everyone. This could have died out, but now it has a chance to live.
> a giant magnifying glass on everyone
An exaggerated comment, I think. There's a lot more content out there on the net, there's no way all content gets an equal share of attention - you end up with a lot of concentration and a greater amount of darkness. Actually every little thing you post and share is diluted in enormous mass of information. Even viral videos are usually obscure for several years before someone influential happens to find them and relink them.
It may have been true at the earliest stages of the web, but in 2012, it's pretty hard to stand out on the web and to benefit from the "giant magnifying glass" you mention.
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#25With four or five ideas, Madhouse said hmm. Come on Wired, you can't use "hmm" as a noun - it at least needs quotes!! Twenty-five were immediate noes. I think that's also highly questionable. But I'm not certain. Of course, like any site that thrives on pseudonymity, Reddit attracts its share of the sick and the deluded. There’s a subreddit, MensRights, “for people who believe that men are currently being disadvantag…
The author most likely meant "sick or deluded". I would however still object to that.
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#26Can someone post a reference to the reddit Link / Comment Please?.
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#27Does anyone else find it annoying/disconcerting the amount of time spent in the article describing what reddit is? If reddit truly is "one of the largest communities on the Internet" and wired is a technology magazine then is that necessary? Where do they stop? "Erwin was using a computer, kind of likea type-writer with a T.V. attached to it, probably not dis-similar to the thing you're using now to read this article…
Maybe it has to do with the fact that Reddit and Wired Magazine have the same parent company, Condé Nast? Space in the article spent promoting Reddit might cause interested readers to visit.
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#28The brief version is: luck. The right idea was in front of the eyes of the right person at the right time. The idea is a staple of light sci-fi, but apparently has not crossed the desk of the right agents in the right mood. So: luck. Which is wildly underestimated as a cause of success.
If you have zero things out there your chance of "luck" is exactly zero.
(I'm not saying you are wrong, I just think this is a paltry excuse.)
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#29For those of you have haven't read the first few chapters, go and do it. It's brilliant.
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#30By the end of his lunch hour, he had gotten as far as Day 6, but he didn’t want to post all the entries at once; what if no one read them? So he posted Day 2, then returned to his work, taking screenshots of software buttons and labeling them. ... Erwin dribbled out his story over the course of the afternoon, switching back and forth between Reddit and work. What a lovely way of adapting the story so he wasn't on red…
Well he was working, just not for the company paying him at that moment :)