Attention economy. Blog Archive » Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? The crowd. There are lots of issues unsettled around who owns what in our new online world where our whole is worth a heckuva lot more than the sum of our parts. Who owns my actions and attention and trust… but me? Who owns the wisdom of the crowd… but the crowd? And what about those who enable the crowd to be so smart… what do they own? And is “own” the right verb? Or is it “control?” Or is it all just “sharing?” This is inspired by Fred Wilson’s and Brad Burnham’s event about peer production and also by my hissyfit about my Yahoo account, below. Before I start, it’s important to say that lots of people are way ahead of me here: Seth Goldstein, Marc Canter, Steve Gillmor, Mary Hodder, and many more.
On the individual level, I want to own or control my stuff, don’t you? So I want to control the things I create: my content (this blog); my identity (my addresses); my collections of neat things (my bookmarks); my analysis (my tags); my reputation (my eBay rating), my behavior (my history, my clicks). Nico’s blog. Experimenting High Frequency Trading Principles on Twitter A common issues is “how to attract people attention to my web page/twitter when I don’t have any reputation?”. Since we live in an attention economy (attention is a scare commodity), why not tackling such question under the prism of finance and applying High-frequency trading technics to gain attention shares.
Here is a fun experiment. Mechanical Art Few months ago I was invited by Stephane Degoutin at the ENSAD aka ‘Art Deco’, a design school to co-organize a 1-month workshop with students about experimenting new forms of crowdsourced art using Mechanical Turk, a Amazon labor market service for micro-tasking I used for my own scientific experiments. The goal of the workshop was ... Mapping the visual perception of travelers in a city using google street view as sensor Have you ever been impressed by the colorfulness of some Tokyo or New york streets during the nights?
TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: Report from /Vaultstock!: On Friday Jan 20 we opened up our doors to about 30 people showed up at our office for /Vaultstock! What was it? Kind of an open meeting for anybody who had trusted us with their clickstream enough to open a /Vault and wanted to spend an afternoon with us to discuss some proposed features and whether they would find them useful. I was really happy with the turn-out as it brought together a wide assortment of geographies, professions and attitudes.
Furthest afield was James Crittenden IV of the Fellaheen Radio Network who came all the way from Portland. In addition to reaching out to users, we also wanted to connect with those who were the most vocally critical or dismissive of AttentionTrust.org and /ROOT Markets. We showed for the first time a working prototype of the new /View of clickstream data that was designed by Web 2.0 visualization rock stars Stamen Design (pictured Tom Apodaca who plays flash, left and Eric Rodenbeck who plays lead vocals, center). Which looks like this: