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  1. …in reply to @dkiesow
    dkiesow thensim0nsaid Yeah, I think one of the biggest problems in the media business is that most people tasked with building digital media systems see ads as outside or even oppositional to the product when the history clearly shows or is a core part of that product...
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      dkiesow thensim0nsaid *it is a core part
    2. …in reply to @Chronotope
      dkiesow thensim0nsaid The thing/problem always has been that the media business is a *business* and that should be understood in the core of the system design. The reality of the situation is that media has to exist within a capitalist world, and needs to work in that context to at least some degree.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        dkiesow thensim0nsaid It's why the best advice I can give to early career people working in any part of the media biz is to find your company's best sales person and ask to do a ride along for a few days. No one can understand how media companies work without that experience...
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          dkiesow thensim0nsaid And that's as important, perhaps more so, if you want to build something that is a fundamental challenge to the current model.


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