was Re: [Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?

[Andrew Hinton]

Great link, Laura!!

I'd read the article in the hardcopy, but I'd forgotten about it being
online.

The most powerful part of that article for me was the point about how the
internet is such a rich place for groups of people, rather than individuals
in vacuums. I'm not making the point very well here, but I'd definitely
recommend reading the article. It brings up things about people in networked
environments that we shouldn't overlook -- the writer seems to think it's
mostly an Asian thing, culturally, but anybody in the US who's been a
participant in online gaming communities knows it's very strong here too,
just in a somewhat different form, and more 'underground.'


::lauran at etr.org::wrote on 7/18/02 02:08pm:

> Did you read that recent Wired article about Koreans playing some
> multi-user game in droves, both at home and in cybercafes?
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/korea.html
> Definitely profitable. And porn must be profitable (or at least was)
> since, as you pointed out, they are often the companies that innovate
> new web technology.
> 
> (The Wired article is also interesting in that it explains how/why
> Korea has cheap broadband for most of the population.)


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