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Recommendations from ethnographic report on addressing the failures of one-way, bombardment-oriented advertising
The Associated Press, Context-Based Research Group and Carton Donofrio Partners investigated what online information devourers think of advertisements. This study builds off and references a previous one (pdf here) about news consumption. The main problem they’re addressing is the atomization … Continue reading
Posted in News Business
Tagged Associated Press, blogs, context, Context-Based Research Group, conversations, Donofrio Partners, ethnographic, ethnography, information, Internet, media, news, reports, studies, trust, Twitter, Web
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Twittering stapler reveals loud future of passive and automatic information sharing
It’s quaint to burn a few seconds on your keyboard to issue pithy reports of what you’re up to, but in the future, straight-forward announcements of activities will be taken over by enhanced machines, like the Twittering stapler, that churn … Continue reading
Posted in Networked Life
Tagged Borg, cybernetics, cyborg, data, distribution, Google, information, Internet, social media, stapler, Twitter, Web
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Link: Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors’ blog: Software tells Bloggers What Readers Want
Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors’ blog: Software tells Bloggers What Readers Want Any information on the quality of the question, or is beauty always in the eye of the beholder?
In shift to virtual life, profit lacks purpose
With a steady flow of information highlighting the news industry’s woes, I couldn’t help but begin to wonder about the Internet’s transformation of the larger economic and cultural structures in which businesses, people and, oh, everything else, operate. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Scarcity to Abundance
Tagged abundance, beliefs, business, capitalism, competition, Culture, faith, future, information, Internet, news, philosophizing, profit, scarcity, transformation
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