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“You have to be paid in order to be good.”
Sounds like a very old-fashioned sales pitch.
The distinction between paid content and free content has ALWAYS been bogus
Producing content has always cost something. Whether it was paid in cash or whether the costs to produce content were covered in some other way (that does not involve money) is not the issue. The issue is that today when publishers publish a publication it becomes globally publicized — at that point it is simply a public good. Indeed: this is actually the intention of advertising: to raise awareness and attract attention. Whether I say paid content will come to an end or whether I say free content will come to an end is less important than to realize that the distinction between paid media and free media is superfluous — and this is something I have said for many years already. I merely wish to point it out again, because there are apparently still many people who still don’t seem to understand that.
P.T. Barnum may have been right at one point in time, many years ago, when he said that there was a sucker born every minute… but that does not mean that everyone born must be a sucker — and to pop a bubble,… well, all it takes is one single prick.
These days, it seems like there are more than enough pricks out there… — indeed: there are probably so many pricks, that they are totally willing and able to take care of each and every one of the suckers. Disintermediation is going to happen: expect it! 
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Users buy containers because they expect to get value out of their contents
Actually, containers are very similar to markets — the containers I am talking about are words: more specifically, keyword domain names. Whereas suppliers use these containers to advertise and sell their goods and services, consumers use containers to express their wants and needs.
When we consider the value of content, we need to consider what relationship there is between the content and the container. For example: if the container is “business”, “jobs”, “real estate”, “movies”, “diapers”, etc., the consumers’ expectation of content will be different in each case.
For the producer, choosing the appropriate container is paramount to receiving an audience of eager consumers. Producers who choose generic containers will only get a very mediocre audience. However, producers who select a very specific container may very well be able to reach a very selective audience.
Day by day, the container — the communication channel, the medium which transports the message — is becoming ever more crucial. Indeed: If the container is simply a marketplace for buyers and sellers to meet, then the message is simply “user-generated content“. In this context, market participants are freely available, ready and willing to express their ideas,… if they have paid their entrance fee at the door to gain access to the container.
If your container is meaningless, then you will have an increasingly difficult time turning it into a marketplace. This is precisely what happened to the newspaper industry, and it is also what will happen to other publishing industries focused on nothing more than traditional brand names… — including generic television channels, generic cable services, generic search engines and any nondescript information sources whatsoever. All such media will address only the most base and meanest of markets,… the tired, poor, huddled masses, who yearn to be free… — and thereby the din of such generic content is nothing more than a babbling murmur of worthless, noisy and noxious spam.
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If words weren’t here, I don’t think…
I’m working on an essay related to that title — and although the idea behind the essay is based mostly on my own ideas and also ideas Noam Chomsky shared in a talk he gave in Köln last year, the above formulation is inspired by this quote:
If Moffett wasn’t here, I don’t think NASA would have been here and if NASA wasn’t here, I don’t think Lockheed would have been here.
Irrational denotations off the deep end
Whenever I read something David Brooks has written, I always regret it. It leaves me with something worse than a stale aftertaste… — I feel like I have to take a shower or something.
So when Paul Krugman mentioned in a blog post that David Brooks had responded to Krugman’s editorial from last friday (to which I had also replied), I was a little bit curious about what Mr. Brooks’ response might be. Plus, I had been asked about my position, and so I thought it might make sense to clarify it some more.
Forget David Brooks — that is just so confusing that none of it is worth mentioning at all.
When I mentioned bogus values, I think it was not clear to some that I meant jobs. Jobs are simply a leftover side-effect of 19th century capitalism. We no longer need jobs. What is needed most of all today are people who are literate enough to work in an information society — and presently I think no more than 1% of most national populations on Earth would pass muster.
The only literacy most people have mastered is how to buy things with paper money, and how to consume mainstream media such as television programs and tabloid press. From a productive point of view — e.g. one that would make a democracy (or a republic) function the way the so-called founding fathers found might be fruitful — the vast majority of the human population is by and large incompetent… and disinterested.
In contrast, anyone who is interested doesn’t really need a high school education — the Internet has more than enough information in it. The problem is: most people don’t know how to use it, simply because no one is teaching them how to use it. Even most lawmakers are incompetent, hence progress is moving ahead at about the rate that Professor Krugman is moving forward on his treadmill.
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Cory Doctorow is able to make reading news about the behavior of illiterate people entertaining
For example:
The [aforementioned] rule of thumb works for cars, for houses, and for every other substantial area of technological regulation. Not realizing that it fails for the Internet does not make you evil, and it does not make you an ignoramus. It just makes you part of that vast majority of the world, for whom ideas like Turing completeness and end-to-end are meaningless.
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Not so fast!
If it takes 7 years for an idea to emerge via social media (did “social media” even exist as a concept 7 years ago?), then that is — in my opinion — quite slow.
One reason why it might be so slow is that the technology is antiquated.
People who use computers to interact on facebook and twitter are essentially using racehorses to move milling stones and grind grain. That’s not impossible to do, it just doesn’t make much sense.
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How fast do memes and news spread on so-called social websites and the realtime web?
Here’s a quote that has been spreading lately on twitter.com and facebook.com:
The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.
This quote was published 7 years ago @ salon.com. I guess if we measure history in eons, 7 years might be considered to be “realtime”?
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Social animals — such as primates — like to communicate (in order to be social)
… and humans are primates. Communicating with others can be a kind of social grooming (if we communicate about a person, we thereby care about — i.e. “groom” — them)
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Communication as a form of social grooming
[Social grooming] is major social activity [that] can bond and reinforce social structures, family links, and build relationships.
The wikipedia article cited above documents many positive effects of social grooming — and in my opinion the social contract [to communicate] is in fact a particular instance of such social grooming.
Apparently, I am not alone in this belief:
That Little Thing Called “Like“
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