The Reblog Button →
What a great post by Fred Wilson. I agree. This is one such example of the clashing of old and new media and underscores the importance of work being done by Lessig et al on the nature and rights of “digital” media, which are fundamentally different from physical media in its ability to easily be published over and over again and remixed over and over again.
Fred’s post:
Newcritics is a year old this week and Tom asked us all to do an anniversary post about the one media moment that moved us the most. When I think back over the past twelve months, the first year of newcritics, I can think of many photographs, paintings, books, movies, songs, albums, and TV shows that moved me.
But the thing that had the most powerful effect on me and may be fundamental to the future of media is the reblog button on Tumblr.
It’s a simple idea really. And it’s been…
