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it's about throwing stuff away

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I had the pleasure of meeting with Steve Gillmor in San Francisco earlier this week. We met downtown where he picked me up and drove me to a cafe in a suburb - I don't know where - and we chatted over a late lunch and lattes.

We discussed the past and future of the internet. It was wonderful opportunity for me ask the Attention Tsar loads of dumb questions (my manager told me I'm good at that) and to get deep into the topics of common interest to us.

There was a recurring theme to our discussion - Steve pretty much summed up it up in a comment he made yesterday :

"Search is dead. The amount of viewing/listening time is finite. It's not about finding stuff; it's about throwing stuff away."

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
    You realize that your manager meant that as a compliment, right?
  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
    i think so tommy ;-)
  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2006
    Right on Steve! You are hitting on the new fundementals of Media 2.0.
    I had a post on this a while back......

    http://www.blogs.dhenderson.com/David_Henderson/?p=132

    In Media 2.0 the fundementals have shifted and so has the leverage:
    -Content is abundant
    -Distribution is abundant and open
    -Attention is scarce - mine is saturated

    -Media 1.0 was about find (search)
    -Media 2.0 is about filter (delete)

    This is a powerful shift!  

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2006
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