Who Cares About Bridging the Divide?

If you watch television broadcast media in America, like nearly everywhere in the world, you'll find an amazing diversity of content. In the early morning, you'll see children's programming. Then it's on to morning news, and maybe a talk show or two. Into the afternoon, you'll see soap operas and daytime drama. Toward dinner time, you'll get the evening news. Afterwards you'll see drama or reality TV. Closer to bedtime, you might see something racier. The point is, the networks know their audiences. There's not one message or product for everyone, there's content specific to each demographic. Knowing that parents need to get ready for school or a day at work, networks put kids programming on in the early morning hours. Knowing stay at home parents want a sense of community, the big talk shows start after the workday has begun. Again, there's no one show for all audiences. Just as at Sun, there's no one message for all audiences. Developers care about bleeding edge innovation, but have little buying power; IT executives have all the buying power, but generally avoid the bleeding edge (unless they're supercomputer specialists). Developing nations and development authorities care about intellectual property freedom, and the impact of technology on society. Most IT buyers are more worried about shared services, SOX compliance and financial return. Same technologies, perhaps at differing s...

Date: September, 05 2006
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_diversity_of_audiences

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