Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Twitchhiker: Using online attention to in the material world

A new blog on language in the NY Times describes someone using Twittering to travel half way around the world, with no other sources of aid, supposedly. 
Multiply this many fold, and it indicates how an economy not involving money , but based strictly on attention, might work.

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  1. Here is another approach, a map of knowledge produced in a NY Times article. Think of it as the Dewey decimal system for libraries in reverse. Instead of a number for each book and category, it is a number for each reader and type. A pattern certainly, but meaning what?
    Donn Downing
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

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