Comments on: The Real New Economy is Yours

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:11:41 +0000

most importantly, do we want to be part of a society composed of individuals dependent on web services to derive “joy, emotion, and suspense”? shouldn’t the counter response be the widespread encouragement of self-sustaining techniques like meditation? and does the existence of an online world somehow overpower or conflict with walking outside on a sunny day, falling in love, and laughing (face to face) with (real) friends?

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:05:50 +0000

but the author makes a crucial misstep in this argument: he seems to presuppose that “the value of the mental dimension” can only be [or best be] unlocked by “twitter, facebook, myspace, and other web services”. are we seriously to believe that experience “rich in joy, emotion and suspense” exists nowhere else – or nowhere better – than online?

of course not – and i can’t believe that the author actually believes this (assuming, of course, that he has experienced joy, emotion, and suspense elsewhere in life). life – that is, real life – is filled with these sorts of experiences without relying upon technology. an argument that life will somehow be better (as in MORE joy, MORE emotion, MORE suspense) as a result of web services is wholly disconnected from reality. this quote seems deluded: why hail it as a new (and desirable) future?

By: Buzzcut

Buzzcut — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:17:03 +0000

Facebook lost half a billion dollars last year. If it were a bank, it would be getting a bailout.

I use Facebook, it’s a cool website, but you would think that if there were so many “social benefits”, we’d be willing to pay for it in some way.

By: Hayden fisher

Hayden fisher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:09:57 +0000

I like it, and it does lead to business development too, clearly. But the cultural impact is most obvious in the present tense.

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By: NIkolai Kondratieff

NIkolai Kondratieff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:49:06 +0000

Sounds like a waste of a lot of brain power and electrons, frankly.

YouTube will never make money for GOOG, and FB will struggle to make money, while its ecosystem partners (who actually have the content people want) have found a way to monetize all the eyeballs. MySpace will flatline soon enough.

By: Buzzcut

Buzzcut — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:01 +0000

What’s interesting is that, for all the “personal economic value” of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. none of them is a going economic concern. None can even pay for their own servers via revenue generated by their sites.

How long with News Corp subsidize MySpace?

The latest Wired has an article on how Facebook expects to make money. I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.

By: Outdoorsman

Outdoorsman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:13:05 +0000

Sounds rather dull to me… unless its the middle of the winter or 3 a.m.