Whole business empires are now founded upon that most fleeting of things, at once profound and perfunctory, the human gaze. In buzzword bingo “attention economy” is a winning ticket. In this model of super abundant information invisibility is a function of excess and simply being noticed becomes the prerequisite for sucess, whether [...]
Communitisable
on 3 March, 2008 – 5:36 pm
Posted in Publishing, Search, tagging
It’s not a pretty neologism. Following on from my previous post I got thinking about the value of community for publishers and there seems to me a distinction between building a community and making something “communitisable”. Gavin Bell of our sister company the Nature Publishing Group has given an intriguing talk on publishers and community [...]

