Doing is knowing, with Lou Reed

Lovely reflective longread. Anyone who can explore how we are being transformed by the digital media that we ourselves are transforming as we explore its transformative possibilities (did I get that right?), and succeeds in tying Lou Reed into that discussion, has to be worth a read. "... this eruption of knowledge-sharing is usually ... dismissed, as an essentially marginal phenomenon. ... we’re basically talking hobbies here, right? Consequential things involve cash... The same logic was used for years to belittle the rise of blogging... a pursuit fit only for the pajama-clad. “That’s cute,” said the insiders and the media-savvy. “But it is of no consequence.” Yet the consequences were real and substantial... Millions of people today have the chance to feel what it’s like to make media ... and in the doing, they are able to understand so much more about how it works and what it means and how tough it is to do right... The Internet, with all its appendages, is one big stage. There is no script and no director. We cast ourselves." - Doing is knowing: “Sweet Jane” and the Web — Wordyard