...from others' eye to state of my mind
December 19, 2022•207 words
as a Foreword
"The Commons Transition-Primer"
(Chapter 2-from Platform to Open Cooperativism)
...Beyond critiques of the Silicon Valley-style "sharing economy", Open Cooperativism questions the dominance of capital in the free and open source software economy, and suggests P2P- empowered digital solutions in order to lower the transactional costs of networked cooperative production....
(Basic Attention Token -White Paper)
"Attention has been widely recognized as a commodity....Existing industries have long depended on it to drive sales! The new industries of the twentieth century turned it into a form of currency they could mint.
Beginning with radio, each new medium would attain its commercial viability through the resale of what attetion it could capture in exchange for its 'free content' - Tim Wu, Attention Brokers"
--The promise of advertising technology was to create a more efficient marketplace for attention.
The hope was that the Internet -the latest kind of new medium- would arrive with a transparent and efficient ad marketplace!
...In theory, excellence would be rewarded:
The best journalism and entertainment would receive the attention and funding is deserved!
I must note that in order to reflect the main topic of mine which is about maintaining and analizing media thus define the usage of media/alternative media.