Another Site

I had done a fairly decent job of avoiding All Things Paris Hilton. She held no interest to me until we started talking about the Attention Economy again.

It's no secret she has no talent and the only reason she is famous is because she's very rich and has hired a publicist.

And, a Goldhaberite (?) would tell you that since forms of old wealth will be the first to transition to the new wealth.

But it begs and bugs.

In the future, she would need to do more.

On another note, erik and I have launched another site:
http://www.freshwaste.com

More on the Attention Economy, but a bit more expansive, I think we've envisioned it. Fiction, pics, music, etc.

Who knows?

rxpct...

Contagious Media Showdown

This is probably getting a lot of attention elsewhere, but it's interesting nonetheless. The idea is that whoever can get the most attention wins. What is more in line with attention economy than that? Interestingly, there are different awards for different metrics, including most hits and most technorati hits, for instance, so raw attention and more specilaized attention (i.e. bloggers) are judged separately. The ultimate irony, of course, would be if the contest site itself won (which it will no matter what, as I just noticed that all entrants must be hosted on their servers, with an option to pay for the space once the contest it over). Ingenious.