Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Pro-ams

Radio 4 had a useful edition of Shop Talk this afternoon about the rise of the 'pro-am', the amateurs who crossover into the professional world. The second half of the programme had a discussion about Wikipedia and then the modding of videogames, both strong examples of new technologies bringing a more democratic flavour to the media. The programme was marred by reference to the Crazy Frog phenomenon and how that too arose from a keen amateur... You can listen to it here.

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