{"id":1084,"date":"2008-03-17T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T16:14:36","slug":"the_mediaizatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"The media-ization of software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ad Age has a big <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/digital\/\">special issue<\/a> out today on digital media. I contributed an article that looks at some of the implications of the rise of cloud computing, particularly the blurring of the line between the consumer software business and the media business:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a closet in a spare bedroom of my house is a crate of PC-software programs on CD-ROMs and DVDs. There are dozens of them neatly wedged into their plastic cases &#8211; financial programs, graphics programs, encyclopedias, games, business applications, hobby applications. And they all seem, suddenly, like strange artifacts from the past &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/digital\/article?article_id=125739\">Read on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad Age has a big special issue out today on digital media. I contributed an article that looks at some of the implications of the rise of cloud computing, particularly the blurring of the line between the consumer software business and the media business: In a closet in a spare bedroom of my house is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}