{"id":643,"date":"2006-02-07T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2006-02-10T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T19:06:28","slug":"you-can-give-people-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"You Can Give People Tools&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and you can make those tools increasingly easy to use, but don&#8217;t expect them to want to make anything as a result.<\/p>\n<p>I just noticed over on the IGN website that console versions of Lionhead Studios&#8217; videogame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionhead.com\/themovies\/index.html\" target=\"blank\"><em>The Movies<\/em><\/a> have been canx&#8217;d due to&#8230; get this&#8230; poor sales of the PC version. This reminds me of two things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.jaquays.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Paul Jaquays&#8217;<\/a> comments some time back on the Map-Center forum that increased availability of oil paints hasn&#8217;t increased the number of Rembrandt&#8217;s and Picasso&#8217;s in the world (True).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the comments I made yesterday (with the above comment in mind) over on the MIT Convergence blog that &#8220;free&#8221; content may not save the day (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergenceculture.net\/weblog\/2006\/02\/microsoft_to_draw_on_usergener.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You can read the IGN announcement for yourself &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ps2.ign.com\/articles\/686\/686025p1.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>. A shame. I was looking forward to a flood of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=445\" target=\"blank\">French Democracy<\/a>&#8220;-style machinima videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and you can make those tools increasingly easy to use, but don&#8217;t expect them to want to make anything as a result. I just noticed over on the IGN website that console versions of Lionhead Studios&#8217; videogame The Movies have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}