http://www.socialtwister.com/2007/01/27/hyper-local-news-the-vanishing-point-theory-of-news-and-evil-knievel/ Confessions of a Social Tools Architect Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:29:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.socialtwister.com/2007/01/27/hyper-local-news-the-vanishing-point-theory-of-news-and-evil-knievel/comment-page-1/#comment-51944 Socialtwister 2.0 » Blog Archive » Paid Content, Scarcity Models and Accessories Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:28:32 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2007/01/27/hyper-local-news-the-vanishing-point-theory-of-news-and-evil-knievel/#comment-51944 [...] The difficulty with scarcity models in the domain of social media is that, well, there is no scarcity. The more important aspect of this market value is the distance between “good enough” and “not quite good enough”. On January 27th, I wrote about the Vanishing Point Theory of News. At that time, I proposed that there is a diminishing returns on my investment in media creation and consumption based on my ever-changing interests. [...] [...] The difficulty with scarcity models in the domain of social media is that, well, there is no scarcity. The more important aspect of this market value is the distance between “good enough” and “not quite good enough”. On January 27th, I wrote about the Vanishing Point Theory of News. At that time, I proposed that there is a diminishing returns on my investment in media creation and consumption based on my ever-changing interests. [...]

]]> http://www.socialtwister.com/2007/01/27/hyper-local-news-the-vanishing-point-theory-of-news-and-evil-knievel/comment-page-1/#comment-36501 The Vanishing Point Theory of News | The Hyperlocal Web Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:56:21 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2007/01/27/hyper-local-news-the-vanishing-point-theory-of-news-and-evil-knievel/#comment-36501 [...] Greg Narain has a thought-provoking post: It seems to me there’s a slight gap, let’s call it a blackhole, where the return on hyper local publishing has diminishing returns. Seems the distribution of interest has what resembles a Planck Distribution - does anyone remember these from school? [...] [...] Greg Narain has a thought-provoking post: It seems to me there’s a slight gap, let’s call it a blackhole, where the return on hyper local publishing has diminishing returns. Seems the distribution of interest has what resembles a Planck Distribution – does anyone remember these from school? [...]

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