Hacker News Reader

I also feel a little sad whenever I hear somebody describe themselves as a content creator. They are giving in to the idea that their work exists just to sandwich ads around in somebody else’s CMS.

Actually I think if you put your comment and the parent comment together, you can see why they use that term. Because the alternative to the phrase “content creator”, for a single online person, might be: I am a YouTube video creator; an X tweet, photograph and video creator; an Instagram post, photo and video creator; also an ebook writer… obviously this gets unwieldy fast. “Content creator” conveniently covers it all. What I think using “read/write/record” misses, is that the format is not materially important.

Actually I think if you put your comment and the parent comment together, you can see why they use that term. Because the alternative to the phrase “content creator”, for a single online person, might be: I am a YouTube video creator; an X tweet, photograph and video creator; an Instagram post, photo and video creator; also an ebook writer… obviously this gets unwieldy fast. “Content creator” conveniently covers it all. What I think using “read/write/record” misses, is that the format is not materially important, when the important thing is your audience.

Also the video still exists after watching it so it has not been consumed.

Though its corresponding anti-video in your mind is consumed when you watch it. As in, you can't watch it twice "for the first time", and the first time is always special.

"Consume" is a generic economic term that encompasses any use of a good or service.

I know that. And I understand when marketers use it in their business internally. When the person says I consume in relation to say watching a move as in this case, reading a book etc. it is different in my opinion.

Perhaps such a person has been consuming too much marketing speak.

I run a 1980s TV station in my house so I need large amounts of video. I have close to 9,000 individual 80s commercials that get reinserted back into 80s television shows. I don't think I've yet to see all 9,000 commercials but I have consumed them into my system.

Where can we find out more?

https://github.com/mopenstein/raspberry_pi_tv_station/tree/m...

I've released the project on GitHub but by doing so I am not implying it's good or worthy of others use. Maybe it will inspire smarter people to make something better.

But it works perfectly for me and my situation.

Mod parent up!