Tony Ennis's Blog Posts about Unfinished

Classic definition of media: "Outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data".
"Technology not only enables content categories, it defines their business models and shapes the content, too"
Advent of the record in 1850s - "after centuries of variability, music suddenly had a defined run-time. "
Subsequently, as limitations were relieved by the cassette & CD, song lengths still remained 3 to 4 minutes - "Technology might have relaxed its grip on music’s length, but it had strengthened its hold on business models."
iTunes - business model moves from albums to individual songs. Spotify - "Matching revenue with usage and paying talent as and to the degree consumers listened to their works"
Because spotify classifies a listen as min 30 seconds, incentive to longer is decreased, leading to shorter song lengths. - Billboard hot 100 songs less than 2:30 has increased 600% between 2017 & today.
Interesting point on human vs algorithmic discrimination - a lot of consternation about the latter but "N***az4life was the second biggest album in the country by units purchased, but 21st in its own genre when it came to what was “selling” and “hottest.”