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REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture
Joe Marcheseredef.com
Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
For most, the pleasures of digital cultural consumption are uncoupled from the exertions of curatorship. Today’s digital consumers are no longer being fed a limited diet of standardized cultural products, but they are still being fed. Consumption may be personalized, but it would be a stretch, in most cases, to call it self-directed — and it is
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Your Attention Is Not a Resource
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
amazon.com
Om Malik blog post : "I wonder if this culture of participation was helping build businesses on our collective backs. If we tag, bookmark, or share and help del.icio.us or Technorati or Yahoo become better commerical entities, aren't we commoditizing our most valuable asset: time? We become the outsourced workforce, though it is still unclear what... See more