Ethan Kaplan

@ethank
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Former CDO, Fender guitars. Currently spending way too much time outdoors. Also: REM, Warner Bros Records and Live Nation.
So I went on a .social domain buying spree and will likely move to murmurs.social to own my shit and see more on the underpinnings of the protocol.
Setting up a server is non trivial. I have an engineering background, especially in operations so I can stumble through. But probably not worth it for most. But the fact that I can is intriguing. It goes back to my point I wrote about: federated systems apply to how we each can construct our own media as producers.
Winter in LA up against the Chatsworth rocks.
All this activity here and following notifications reminds me heavily of early days on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, etc.
So there's now a poll on bird site if Musk should stay as CEO, and all the election night Twitterati are all over it. It's the worst of all worlds.
Not sure if this will be the straw, but we’ll see.
Infinitely more entertaining than Twitter drama is the random awesomeness of Twitch “Just Chatting”. Like 400 people watching someone cook. https://www.twitch.tv/luxiegames
LuxieGames - Twitch

prehistoric hottie now, nonbinary dreamland l8r

Twitch

I’ve been digging into Twitch lately so the latest two blog posts are about that. I realized I hadn’t shared the first one. It’s about a stream gone wrong, then fixed and then a 39 hour stream.

https://ethankaplan.com/just-chatting-on-stream-407364f16d71

Just Chatting, On Stream - Through the Black Rim Glasses

What a 49 hour stream from a mid-western teenager says about the culture and language of Gen Z

Through the Black Rim Glasses

I wrote a bit about the shift from media being about access to assets, to it being about everything BETWEEN access and asset.

A generational phase shift.

https://ethankaplan.com/access-to-asset-f3f1b9195f4a

Access to Asset - Through the Black Rim Glasses

The coming generational phase shift from structure to chaos, and what it means to be a media company. In the last few weeks I’ve had three words buzzing around in my head as I look at the corners…

Through the Black Rim Glasses
The death of a mountain lion shouldn’t make me so sad. But it does. And this is fantastic writing. https://www.nwf.org/Latest-News/Press-Releases/2022/12-17-22-Eulogy-P-22
A Eulogy for P-22, A Mountain Lion Who Changed the World

A Eulogy for P-22, A Mountain Lion Who Changed the World from Beth Pratt.

National Wildlife Federation

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