The Value Of Aggregating Content: we benefit from choice.
David Weinberger thinks, "As soon as music went digital, we learned the natural unit of music is the track. Nick Carr knows, we should be grateful for the development of the physical long-playing album. Scott Karp opines, "Disaggregation is only step one of the media revolution. Step two is finding dynamic ways to put it back together."
Since the standard of the three minute song was dictated by the recording technology of the '1920s, it cannot be considered a natural unit, but it does seem to still work in the 21st Century. The fifteen to twenty minute on each side of a LP record was dictated by the technology of the 1950's and this two-act unit of thematically linked three-minute songs seemed to work better than the forty to fifty minute one act CD dictated by 1980's technology. Now, that our present day technology doesn't so obviously dictate any cut length or album length, the individual listener, collector may bundle songs as they wish. Choice our most prized benefit.
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Since the standard of the three minute song was dictated by the recording technology of the '1920s, it cannot be considered a natural unit, but it does seem to still work in the 21st Century. The fifteen to twenty minute on each side of a LP record was dictated by the technology of the 1950's and this two-act unit of thematically linked three-minute songs seemed to work better than the forty to fifty minute one act CD dictated by 1980's technology. Now, that our present day technology doesn't so obviously dictate any cut length or album length, the individual listener, collector may bundle songs as they wish. Choice our most prized benefit.
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