The Genesis of Home Grown Media
Posted in Podcasts on June 8th, 2006
In 1985 Desktop Publishing brought the power of the media to the home computer. Since then life has never been the same. Susie is gone one more week, so Barb and Gregg take a trip down memory lane, discussing what the onset of home grown media has morphed into twenty years down the road. And to all you former paste-up artists out there, tell us what you miss most about rubber cement and hot wax rollers.
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Old Comments says:
I worked on my Universtity arts paper for a while and we would do a
digital layout in Pagemaker, print the pages out in four sheets, put
them through the waxer and assemble them and then send the boards out
to be photographed and printed. I remember those all night pasteup
sessions, smoking too many cigarettes and listening to loud music,
running to the grad pub upstairs for pints and wings and eventually
rolling out of the office at 5am.
You know what I don’t miss about the waxer, having sticky hands and
tiny slivers of paper stuck to every conceivable surface of my body
and clothes. I hate that! thank gawd I came into the layout game in
the dawn of the digital era, though, because I may have gone crazy if
I had to write up pages of headlines with those rub on letters. We
had a closet full of those things!
mamaloo • 6/8/06; 10:38:51 PM #
There are people who don’t subscribe to podcasts but play them on the
website? I honestly couldn’t be bothered listening to the shows that
way…it’s the automatic-ness of the subscription that I love.
I’m in a different field but one which has been equally altered
forever due to small, GUI technology (I work in and around libraries
and archives). It has been wonderful and awful…often on the same
day. I’ve had university students ask what is the point of learning
proper research techniques when they can just go to wikipedia
(grrrrrrr) but have also been able to assist people in war-torn parts
of the world like Kosovo being able to save material which once would
have been lost during conflict.
To me the most remarkable aspect of DIY media is how small the world
becomes. It’s one thing to see pictures of some CNN journalist being
‘embedded’ in a war zone but that stuff has never impressed me
because i’m walways wondering who else is there with that
person…how many protectors are off camera. On the other hand there
is something amazing to me about reading a blog or listening to a
podcast that some ‘average joe’ in Iraq or East Timor is putting out
into the world. Certainly the current war in Iraq feels much more
real to me in far away Australia than the conflict in the early 90’s
ever did.
Bernadette • 6/9/06; 10:05:45 PM #
December 4th, 2006 at 2:53 pm