Ok, so I’m not in Comm-330 (Photo) this semester, but I am in Econ-200 or Microeconomics and I came across a post on Chase Jarvis’s blog that really resonates with me, seeing as I read it while procrastinating writing my reaction paper to Freakonomics and Naked Economics (so far I like Freakonomics a bit better, although they both so far have proven well written and witty). As Chase discusses, a post written originally by Kevin Kelly, the internet is a giant copy machine. As it copies media and your photographs it’s increasing supply, which in turn decreases the value of your commodity. So what to do? You must be able to supply a material or service that can be seen as scarce. Something that “cannot be copied”. Things that Kevin and Chase offer are your artistic vision, style and personality. The trust you earn through client relations. Your reputation. All non-material things that we all know are important, but because of the growing internet, just got even more crucial. Now, as I said I’m procrastinating right now (the opportunity cost of this post, probably not worth it [could have finished my paper by now and gone to sleep, resulting in a better night sleep and better performance in classes tomorrow, meaning better grades… and well, it goes on…], but I’m writing none the less), so I will cut it short so I may sleep- I might edit and post more later when it’s not 3am. But, until then, you can check out the other two posts here (Chase’s) and here (Kevin’s).

What do you think about these ideas of new internet photonomics?