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RE: Steemit Community Discussions - Podcast 001
Great point made by @krnel here. Good or bad, Steem is not "an attention economy".
Great point made by @krnel here. Good or bad, Steem is not "an attention economy".
That whole monologue by @krnel was an eye opener for me. I feel privileged to have had that sideline position to listen in on the dialogue. I think with exceptional thinking like that and the clarity of vision that involves, the podcast has the potential to become very influential.
Wow, thanks for such feedback. I will continue to try to raise the bar and get other to people to do the same :) We can make make Steemit succeed, but it depends on the community making it happen. People going against the best interest of Steemit's success are going against us, and more people need to become aware of this. More friction and conflict ahead.
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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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I have a write up to release that explains it. But I slipped it into the podcast since it was relevant ;)