## General

[The battle for consumers’ attention](https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21716460-forget-long-tail-battle-consumers-attention) by Economist
[Mass entertainment in the digital age is still about blockbusters, not endless choice](https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21716467-technology-has-given-billions-people-access-vast-range-entertainment-gady)  Winner takes all

## Crypto space

[A primer on decentralized social media](https://medium.com/@w.a.y/this-article-is-meant-to-inspire-you-to-think-about-the-intersection-of-blockchain-and-social-e4a7c0c1fca) with the example of [Monetize your Gmail inbox with Earn.com](https://news.earn.com/monetize-your-gmail-inbox-with-21-co-ec1f9687956d) (recently acquired in 2018 by Coinbase in [Turnaround](https://medium.com/@balajis/the-turnaround-2d145589d814))

- the emergence of "financial internet"?

[Websites That Pay Users With Blockchain Aim to Disrupt Facebook](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/websites-using-blockchain-to-pay-users-aim-to-disrupt-facebook)

- useful lessons from history?

[The 10 Guinness World Records for Social Media Are?](http://www.jeffbullas.com/the-10-guinness-world-records-for-social-media-are/)

- Nakamoto consensus is a digital Collective Market. Digital here in [the sense of attack/no-attack of BFT](/nodes/24201). Question - can this resource-consuming principle be used for voting and decision making (for instance, in social media)? Notice that markets can be of different types, not only bilateral but also [matching and based on swap-chains. How to exploit and leverage "assymmetric information](/nodes/24305) signal"?

## Specific projects (to be investigated in more detail....)

- Messari
[Q&A w/ Ryan Selkis of Messari](https://tokeneconomy.co/%EF%B8%8F-token-economy-20-crypto-activism-q-a-w-ryan-selkis-of-messari-orchid-72d73462ebf9)

- Orchid

Orchid is a sort of tokenized-Tor, with the goal of bringing censorship-free internet everywhere.

- Blockstack

[A 1 Million Request for Social Networks](https://blockstack.org/blog/a-1m-request-for-social-networks)

- TruStory

[TruStory raises a seed round led by True Ventures and other notable investors and Angels](https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/trustory-raises-a-seed-round-led-by-true-ventures-and-other-notable-investors-and-angels-9e7771468656) by Preethi