to the vector belong the spoils
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to the vector belong the spoils
clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Another example of the legibility margin is online publishers. Take Facebook as an example. If I told you that you had to start paying $50/year to use Facebook, would you give it up?
Many people probably would, or they never would have joined in the first place. Yet, that’s how much Facebook earns from your account.
They make around $48.76 per year p... See more
Many people probably would, or they never would have joined in the first place. Yet, that’s how much Facebook earns from your account.
They make around $48.76 per year p... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
Efforts to make information conform to archaic notions of scarcity, ownership, and finite physical quantity--concepts that grew out of the agricultural and industrial age--merely lock us into old mental boxes of constraint and exploitation.
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
We can now measure and analyze dimensions of personal and social life that we wouldn’t even have thought to measure a decade or two ago. It was always theoretically possible for us to count our steps, but altogether impractical. Now we can have it done for us passively. Indeed, as most of us know all too well, all manner of information about us and... See more