I was doing some surfing on economics of attention and came across a great site/blog. Read/WriteWeb, then had a pleasant surprise to learn the editor of this site, with contributors from all over the world including Silicon Valley experts, is from Wellington, NZ.

I recall reading about this guy in the Herald earlier in the year. Yes - Something else that is nice, to earn enough $$ to pay your mortgage from blog advertising before you get out of bed.

An excerpt from ReadWriteWeb on the economics of attention:

“The news that used to last a day now lasts just a few hours, simply because we need to pay attention to the new news. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to juggle all the news sources and keep on top of things. Which brings us to the law of information, stated first by Herbert Simon: the rapid growth of information causes scarcity of attention.” Read more - The Attention Economy: An Overview

Still on attention, Google and Facebook dominating in 2007. Read the HY 2007 Web Technology Report on RWW here

Will this FaceBook growth continue, the next big tech IPO?

Read “Facebook opens it pages as a way to fuel growth” - Wall St Journal