Megaphone Guy - Negativland

So what do we do with Megaphone Guy?

He’s not the smartest person at the party

Or the most experienced

Or the most articulate

But he’s got that megaphone

Megaphone guy

Some are agreeing with him, some disagree

But because he’s so loud

Their conversations will begin to react to what he’s saying

As he changes topics, so do they

If he continually uses the phrase «at the end of the day»

They start using it too

It’s our users who control what they see

(Making money making money)

Old technologies get confused with new ones

(Making money making money)

His main characteristic is his dominance

He crowds the other voices out

But who can polish information to the web?

His rhetoric becomes the central rhetoric

Because of it’s unavoidability

Host original content

Unfortunately

(Milliseconds)

When you use a search engine

(Unavoidability)

You will also find what is called «user generated content»

We consider speech to be the result of thought

But thought also results from speech

As we develop words towards meaning we discover what we think

The number one thing we do is give people a voice

This yammering guy has by forcibly putting his

Restricted language into the head of the guests

Put an intelligence ceiling on the party

Right, right

Thank you so much for articulating our business model

So what do we do with Megaphone Guy?

I mean, he’s here

And it pops you into the content itself

One thing I think you try to do is not be him

Which we all

Are