February 03, 2006
Media Bubble

Jon Lebkowsky points to and quotes Scott Karp on Umair Haque's thinking regarding "Bubble 2.0"

Weblogsky: "Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media"

"The idea that we’re living in an “attention economy” is nothing new. But unless the media/technology industry starts listening to Umair and focuses on creating new ways to help people efficiently allocate their attention in a world of infinite options, the bubble will pop. And it won’t be pretty.

So let’s focus on the user. What the user needs is help allocating a finite amount of attention. And the solution needs to be personal — perfectly tailored to each user’s needs. The user needs a personal killer app."

Of course that runs the risk of everyone having a tailored feed that only suits his own biases. No room for disturbing news, challenging media.

Posted by Dave at February 03, 2006 02:13 PM