{"id":4764,"date":"2010-10-26T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T03:43:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T03:43:02","slug":"network_logic_supports_the_mid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/network_logic_supports_the_mid\/","title":{"rendered":"Network logic supports the middle space&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;in several ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, the <span class=\"nr-highlight\">plunging costs of information<\/span> make it possible to find, then <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">connect, two passions<\/span> together far more efficiently than in the past. Once connected, cheap transactions keep the connection flourishing.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <span class=\"nr-highlight\">symmetrical messaging<\/span>, text, video, audio, 3D spaces, archives, privacy controls, all enhance the once slim attractions of a virtual community experience, <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">keeping the community longer<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the <span class=\"nr-highlight\">ubiquity of e-money<\/span> in the network means that every niche has the ability to <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">initiate an indigenous economy<\/span>. The knowledge that dog breeders used to swap among themselves can become lucrative to the community as a whole when plugged into the network economy.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, the <span class=\"nr-highlight\">border-collapsing nature of the network economy<\/span> means embryonic communities can theoretically draw upon a larger pool of potential members: all 6 billion humans. The law of increasing returns <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">can feed a small interest into a mid-sized interest<\/span>. Whereas once there was a lone fanatic for every notion, now there is a devoted web site for every fanatic notion; soon there can be 10,000 fellow enthusiasts for every fascination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in several ways. First, the plunging costs of information make it possible to find, then connect, two passions together far more efficiently than in the past. Once connected, cheap transactions keep the connection flourishing. Second, symmetrical messaging, text, video, audio, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/network_logic_supports_the_mid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}