Bomb Girls

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 @GreatDismal say on George Stroumboulopoulos (I had to look <== this up @strombo 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.