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RE: Steemit Community Discussions - Podcast 001
It is not yet an attention market, by steemIT and any other gateways to the steem blockchain are absolutely attention economies because they survive on our attention. Our attention is valuable to the system and to the readers. Without some attention, not of us would bother posting.
The overal economy of Steem may include precisely an attention market and attention "economics", but that doesn't make Steem as a whole "an" attention economy.
If you want to suggest this particular part, and thus in extension Steem as a whole, is a part of the overall "attention economy", including potentially many other platforms that work in a wide range of ways but utilize attention in some manner, that's fine. But that "economy" still relies on too many other factors (which could be lumped into the so called "attention economics", if we'd really like to do that) to truly generalize the entire market as an "attention economy".
I think Ned has done well using the term "attention economy"/economics many times. But let's not confuse matters by accidentally suggesting that all Steem is about, is immediate attention. Which is what calling it "an attention economy" does.
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