In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.
Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.