Vid-Guest-Class

That was a very interesting way to have a guest for a class. Jason Scott reminds me of a doctoral student who attended the U of M back around 2002. His name was Richard Otto, and his dissertation was about video game construction I think. Richard, like Jason, was a very laid back guy who was thoroughly into his field. He seemed to have so much collected knowledge about what he was passionate about that I wondered why he was even in school instead of making millions on video games. In listening to Jason, I realize that even when you have a good product or idea, you have to have a market or audience, and you must not set your goals too high. I think that patience and confidence go a long way toward success in living in this new media world. The idea of using Kickstarter as a way to raise money makes me wonder about the ethics involved. I am not really sure of how it works, but Jason sort of helped me get an idea about it when he said that "they" monitor all the action that takes place with it. One of my questions should have been who monitors it? I will go online and find out about that though since I now know that almost everything is mentioned online somewhere. I would like to see his movies.