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Google’s chief economist explains value in era of endless info

Hal R. Varian quoted in Wired: Varian believes that a new era is dawning for what you might call the datarati—and it’s all about harnessing supply and demand. ‘What’s ubiquitous and cheap?’ Varian asks. ‘Data.’ And what is scarce? The analytic ability to utilize that data.” Providing information analysis is a task that is related to but [...]
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The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them

I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you. Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections Being in the know / personal topic guidance Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices Forming opinions / critiquing service Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
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3 changes in information experience micro-culture

Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data. Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about serving [...]
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Every story should be a Web site, and a Web site should be a network hub

To enhance your story’s online ferocity, build it as a standalone, interactive network hub for the topic it broaches, and make it easily embedded in other Web sites. Building a network hub means you provide content filtering services in addition to your own researching and reporting: Provide well-described links to other news, opinion and information sources relevant [...]
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The Web is your Web site; search is your navigation

The implications of this are: Every piece of content should function as an independent business that can be embedded in whatever Web site wishes to host it; Advertising needs to integrate with every piece of content and go wherever it goes; Journalism organizations should think of themselves as wire services providing content for any interested Web site; let [...]
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