content as capital
on the state of content as an industry and machine for makers, creators, influencers, and users across the internet
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content as capital
How do we create a world where we are free to create for the love of it?
Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • The Space to Create
this. Before you read anything, ask what are the incentives of the person writing jt
The greatest danger of the culture war is that it pressures people to take a stance on issues they know nothing about.
-Gurwinder
What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply chain.
Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports... See more
Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports... See more
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel
I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.
Jeff Morris Jr.x.comwow. this is a very serious problem.
The thing that makes “influencer” such an attractive option in those surveys is precisely this idea that it names the outcome rather than the actual work. We don’t actually have a good word for what it means to do that work. Partly this is because there are big differences between platforms (and within platforms, for that matter), and there is no... See more