This blog focuses on the coming of the Attention Economy. Every so often, I shall remind new readers of what this term means. The basic idea is that we are moving toward a new kind of economy, wildly different from any before. An economy in this sense is system of actions and transactions of some kind involving scarce but desirable or necessary entities, with the multiplicity of such transactions intricately tying an entire society or […]
Last revised 7/3/06 HOME This blog (see “home“) is about the Attention Economy, etc. Note: This site is in process of updating, so this is a temporary, partially improved and updated version HERE ARE LINKS TO SOME OF MY OLDER WRITINGS The entries below may be drafts, rough sketches, outlines or more finished words., starting with the most recent The Real Nature of the Emerging Attention Economy talk at E-tech conference on the Attention Economy, […]
Annika Janssen, a reporter for the German (print) Economics journal PVM (Portfolio Verlag) recently sent me some questions. Here they are with my answers: – The theory of attention economy was first mentioned in the late 1990s. To what extent is it still valid today? – And in which areas of life, society, politics, economy (…) can we still observe actions or phenomenons that can be related to the theory? Especially looking at the social networks and […]