Some lumber to be erected into an essay. Plank 1 “The present king of France.” This is phrase much beloved for thinking about by (Anglo-American) philosophers, because there is no such animal. But there used to be. In fact, the kings of France were the ultimate feudal lords, the area around Paris having been the very birth place and center of pure feudalism, and the French kings the most successful agglomerators of feudal power. (I […]
Yet may now read the finished, more elegantly set version of my openness piece in the June, 06, First Monday.
I’m on after TV! Andrew Keen who set up After TV to discuss new media now has up an interview with me. It’s a telephone interview we did several weeks ago. LISTEN
The complete paper abstracted below may now be downloaded as a pdf The Value of Openness in an Attention Economy Michael H. Goldhaber (delivered) Monday, May 15, 2006 (submitted 6/6/06) Abstract Virtually all forms of openness can be motivated by the scarcity of attention, they lynchpin of the Attention Economy. This term, which I introduced previously, is often misunderstood as simply a variant of the money economy. Instead it is an entirely new system that […]
Thursday, May 11, 2006 Invited paper (by MHG): FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content Presented by First Monday http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/index.php As with other kinds of human decisions and actions, any of the various choices and instantiations of policies of openness can stem from several different motivations at the same time. One may choose openness out of a philanthropic desire to aid the most people, out of an enjoyment in being part of a community, out of […]