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Episode 058 — The Attention Market

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James touch on Twitter’s new “Like” button before diving into what might be a new model for publishing. Then, a discussion of bundle economics and Stratechery’s future. Buckle up! This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront. See recommended portfolios and get up to $15,000 managed for free by visiting Wealthfront.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing — Stratechery Todd VanDerWerff: 2015 Is the Year the Old Internet Finally Died — Vox Episode 012: The Internet Rainforest — Exponent Chris Dixon: How Bundling Benefits Sellers and Buyers — cdixon blog Ben Thompson: Ballmer’s Bad Bundle Economics … Continue reading Episode 058 — The Attention Market

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I am, I'm good. We are, we are recording late because

0:06.9

the NBA is back and there was a fantastic Clippers Warriors game, which I've, which I watched.

0:13.8

I know you enjoyed watching it as well. This is, this is no tech Ben talking, right?

0:18.6

That's right. That's right. We have a guest host today.

0:22.7

Our listeners will have missed you giving me a hard time telling me that we need to start

0:26.8

right now because you're pressed for time.

0:29.6

And I was like, okay, Ben, let's get going then. I'm ready whenever you are.

0:35.0

Yeah, it's no tech Ben's fault.

0:37.9

It's not,

0:38.2

for those that I know,

0:39.5

I have an alternate Twitter persona,

0:41.0

which is at no tech fan,

0:43.0

where you don't want to follow because it's like me complaining about refs and

0:46.9

stuff like that.

0:47.5

I very much appreciate the way you kind of firewall off those two separate parts of

0:53.5

your online personality. Yeah, they sleep over

0:56.5

sometimes, but yeah, I'm, you know, got miles to feed. It can't be driving people away.

1:03.5

I do that. I drive people away up on my own, just fine. Well, maybe, maybe there might be a little

1:08.2

bit of seeping over on this episode. We'll see how we go.

1:11.2

But before we do it...

1:12.7

Oh, sorry.

1:13.4

No, you go ahead.

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