Comments on: Content is cheap, context is expensive: Is it any surprise which one we lack?

By: Marketing through Experiences | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)

Marketing through Experiences | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:15:30 +0000

[...] evolution of a thought is a funny thing. I’ve long obsessed over the idea of context, inspired and shaped by Umair Haque’s line of thinking about user generated context, markets, [...]

By: Table of Contents: 30 + Selected Thoughts | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)

Table of Contents: 30 + Selected Thoughts | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:57:58 +0000

[...] Content is cheap, context is expensive: Is it any surprise which one we lack? Context is expensive: hard to create, hard to learn, hard to distribute. At the intersection of information and interaction, context is a unruly mixture of variables, each with own level of situational impact. Content is expensive to filter: false positives add to the noise as we simultaneously mistakenly discard valuable signals. Strict rules-based systems for managing interaction can be expensive to manage. We have to listen to both sides to balance out the debate, to understand the biases, to pick out what people are actually saying. Education takes time. [...]

By: Photographs tell lies through slivers of reality. | Taylor Davidson

Photographs tell lies through slivers of reality. | Taylor Davidson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:34:17 +0000

[...] transparency isn’t the solution; interpretation isn’t easy, creating and delivering context and relevance is expensive and difficult to [...]

By: Social relevance will be the arbiter of authority and attention. | Taylor Davidson

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:33 +0000

[...] declining marginal benefits from increased information. Individuals and organizations that create context and relevance will be the real arbiters of authority and [...]

By: Can nuanced discourse compete against “strategy by soundbite”? | Taylor Davidson

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:25:06 +0000

[...] The demand for answers crowds out great questions. It’s impossible for everyone to understand every part of every debate: heuristics and stereotypes are a fundamental necessity for people to process information and create knowledge. Information overload is not a new issue; in fact, as individuals we have always lived in a state of information overload even though as a society we find ways to adapt to higher levels of data and increased rates of transmission throughout the world. Supply and demand change to establish new equilibriums between content and context. [...]

By: Can we experience serendipity without inefficiency? | Taylor Davidson

Can we experience serendipity without inefficiency? | Taylor Davidson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:28:48 +0000

[...] browsing online comes with its own challenges; mystified by incomplete information and clouded by too much information we regularly appeal to the heuristics, stereotypes and rules of thumb that we have created to help [...]

By: Filtering firehoses, embracing constraints and sparking creativity. | Taylor Davidson

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:47:34 +0000

[...] content, I want context; I want to reduce my time, mindshare and life friction involved in finding relevance; moreseo, I [...]

By: Venture Capital for Long Tail Entrepreneurs at SXSW | Unstructured Thoughts by Taylor Davidson

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:40:40 +0000

[...] Creating context is more valuable than creating content. [...]

By: Are “Online Conversations” Really Conversations? | Unstructured Thoughts by Taylor Davidson

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:54:19 +0000

[...] We have a multitude of tools to create output and start discussions, and because creating and distributing content has become incredibly easy and cheap, we’ve inundated ourselves with information. [...]

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:41:03 +0000

Serious thanks Jessie. I know I'm a little dense, long and somewhat inaccessible to read, and I know I tend to dive into rabbit holes rather than deliver concise answers, but I appreciate your time and kind words…