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 […]
The pdf version of my e-tech talk “slides” — a rather clumsy power point presentation — can now be downloaded. (This is my talk “The Real Nature of the Emerging Attention Economy,” including the metaphor of economies as massively multiplayer interactive games a “keynote” delivered at the O’reilly “Emerging Technology Conference” San Diego, March 8, 2006) download e-tech talk pdf
I didn’t know my paper was famous, so it is a great compliment for the attention-getting DeLong to say so. Here’s how he quotes me and comments: DeLong: The Transformation from Feudalism to Capitalism to Attentionalism The end of Goldhaber’s famous “attention economy” essay: [what I wrote:] The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net: At the end of the feudal period, the pomp and display of the nobility reached a level never before […]
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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 […]
Sunday, February 13, 2005 Reflections on Values without Religion Religious people may argue over what values are important, but they can argue there is authority in the scriptures that go with their religion for whatever values they do take seriously. Typically, it is taken to be true that these scriptures were dictated by god or at least by the founder of the religion, a semi-divine personage lost in the mists of time. Since these scriptures […]