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24 Dec 09

if:book: when we get what we want

  • We don't think about this very much, but this newfound ability to instantly satisfy our desires is actually a very strange development. So much of human development is a process of learning to deal with desires that are delayed or vexed; so much of the history of the book is a narrative of scarceness. In terms of the market, there was more demand than supply. The move to the digital has changed all that: the supply of a piece of digital content is, for most intents and purposes, infinite, and we find ourselves in a position where supply far exceeds demand. It isn't just books where this is the case: it might be said that all electronic reading is in this position. If you have an even marginal amount of curiosity, there's no end of content that could, given the time, be interesting.
  • it becomes very hard for us to know how to value content
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23 Nov 09

Location Is The Missing Link Between Social Networks And The Real World

  • social networking, while great in many respects, does not fulfill a fundamental human desire: To be in the actual presence of other people.

Paradise Tossed: Three Theses on the Impossibility of Future Progress « Generation Bubble

  • Technologically mediated sociality, rather than becoming the means by which radical democracy takes hold, is simply a testament to that very idea’s impotence.
  • a person’s reading proceeds geometrically while tweeted content expands exponentially
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16 Sep 09

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

  • the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
  • he small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
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Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

  • the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
  • The small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
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