NPR Uses Porn to drive traffic to shitty podcast

[gonzo]

The Sex Drive

September 07, 2007 (http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/09/07)

From early photography to the VCR to streaming video, innovations in communications technology have often been driven (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=861968) by porn. But sex and tech Wired correspondent Regina Lynn argues (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/08/sexdrive_0809) that porn may be losing its innovation mojo, at least online.

source (http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/09/07/segments/85211)

[miz_wright]

The Sex Drive

September 07, 2007 (http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/09/07)

From early photography to the VCR to streaming video, innovations in communications technology have often been driven (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=861968) by porn. But sex and tech Wired correspondent Regina Lynn argues (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/08/sexdrive_0809) that porn may be losing its innovation mojo, at least online.

source (http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/09/07/segments/85211)
There's a lot of talk in this show about content interaction, and how we, as an industry are not doing much to capitalise on this trend. Sure, you don't see a lot of industry folk saying: here, play with our content, make it your own.

However, it occurs to me that the communities that have sprung up around the interactivity being discussed are also not created or run by mainstream entertainment either, so that's not really a valid argument on the part of Regina Lynn. She does point out that there has been a move by the industry to advance technologically in other areas - the physical interactivity that the novelty community is working to integrate, for example.

I think the commonly touted idea that the adult industry is on the cutting esge is a little misleading - it seems to me that we, as an industry, have always been early adopters of new technology and the influence of our industry has certainly had an impact on different directions. But it's not technology we create, per se - which is what is always trotted out in these things - it's more that we take advantage of new directions in the technology as it's used.

There also isn't any discussion in the piece about where the technology is really going, and I think there is a lot of evidence that adult is on the forefront there, as well - if convergence of technology is the next wave, as is widely suspected, then I think it's safe to say the industry is on the cutting edge there. Web 2.0 isn't necessarily the leading edge of technology as a whole, so much as it is the next wave of internet useage - which is a horse of a different colour.

I think it's pretty specious to try to use that as an arguement that porn is trailing tech, when there's a pretty wide array of evidence that the industry is forging newer paths instead of using paths that pretty well guarantee legislative crack-downs. Who wants to maximise useage of Web 2.0 interactivity when 2257 regs are consistantly raising the bar for required records?

[MRock]

Nicely put Liz :)

[miz_wright]

Nicely put Liz :)

Thanks, MRock. :rolleyes:

I'm actually surprised people haven't got more to say about it - I thought there'd be a little more discussion about it.

[Rcourt64]

Oh please girl, he just wants to get in your pants now :hmm: