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You’re a commodity: sell yourself dearly

The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net

If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches, or what rubrics such as “the information age” suggest. What counts most is what is most scarce now, namely attention. The attention economy brings with it its own kind of wealth, its own class divisions – stars vs. fans – and its own forms of property, all of which make it incompatible with the industrial-money-market based economy it bids fair to replace. Success will come to those who best accommodate to this new reality.

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nice try, but I ain’t buying it

Paul Holbrook’s Radio Weblog

Paul Holbrook tries to defend his bad science on computer/OS comparisons. If he had focused his complaints to slow browsing (ie, complained that all Mac browsers are crap) I might have let it go.

and I’m not sure how he was used to using Windows 2000 a few years ago, as he asserts. Oh, well, OS pissing contests are the most tedious of the genre . . . . .

He oughta try OS X, since he has an iMac. I have it running, and while it’s not without warts of its own, a mix of proven Apple applications (ie MS Office, et al) and a raft of Open Source stuff is hard to beat.