This post has almost nothing to do about Bomb Girls - except that I posted the following in Facebook and Twitter tonight, "
Watching
Bomb Girls. My Mom's Mom worked in a bullet factory in Montreal around
WWII era. The TV show is a drama, but it's scary-interesting to
imagine what life was like during those times.".
Got me thinking about various posting media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging, Google Apps (sort of was Google Groups) - and now I've signed on to a few more - Klout, FourSquare, Tumblr, Google+, and quite a few more blogging/newsletter-like systems. I think there is a limit. There are tons of interesting 2.0 platforms but once one becomes the majority, it is impossible to move. First in doesn't mean majority/dominant. And in fact, to quote what I heard William Gibson say on George Stroumboulopoulos (I had to look <== this up
Jan 31,
"which technologies succeed are random in the way that evolutionary selection is random".
But back to Bomb Girls. Last show of the 6 series 1st year run of this show tonight. The show is a bit melodramatic but will appeal to some. I think expensively-produced general-purpose TV is sinking. But, like music and videos, it needs to find a new distribution channel and then it will be more profitable. In fact. TV is a distribution channel. But content production and distribution used to be (still are a lot) connected. Probably s/b separated.
I said this had nothing to do with Bomb Girls. But it is a Canadian production and I honour my grandmother in remembering that this represents part of her life as an Irish immigrant in Montreal in the 1940s.
