FW: [DW] Bright Shiny Objects - Seattle CIO on the "dilution of effort"
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From: news...@groups.dowire.org [mailto:news...@groups.dowire.org] On Behalf Of Steven Clift
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:19 AM
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Subject: [DW] Bright Shiny Objects - Seattle CIO on the "dilution of effort"
See:
http://schrier.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/bright-shiny-objects/
Why are human beings and governments so attracted to bright shiny
objects such as smart phone apps?
Im sure there is a psychological malady in here somewhere perhaps a
Bright Shiny Object Syndrome (BSOS), which also might explain why
some people passionately love geocaching and others are inveterate
collectors of stuff and still others become compulsive hoarders. And
BSOS may be related to that urban legend(?) about capturing monkeys by
putting bright shiny objects (BSOs) into a monkey trap.
Certainly Apple seems to be making a handsome living off BSOS, with
over 10 billion downloads from its iPhone Apps store at a 30% cut of
the price each. Apple also receives a percentage from iTunes music
downloads, and has capitalized on what I would call hardware BSO by
being first to market with products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Of course plenty of other companies also cash in on BSO. A perfect
example is all the companies hoping to make money in the forthcoming
boom in tablet computers this year.
How does this all relate to government?
See:
http://schrier.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/bright-shiny-objects/
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