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This theory of "exponentiality" seems more than a little alarmist. There's a crucial difference between media and codfish: unlike codfish, media only meaningfully exist insofar as people experience and remember that media. In a straightforward way, *forgetting* is the "Regulon" of media -- who cares if there are a million stories about OJ Simpson if only a fraction of them get read? The web is a prime example of this: most of the billion+ pages out there have had barely any views -- thus effectively "killing" them.
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This theory of "exponentiality" seems more than a little alarmist. There's a crucial difference between media and codfish: unlike codfish, media only meaningfully exist insofar as people experience and remember that media. In a straightforward way, *forgetting* is the "Regulon" of media -- who cares if there are a million stories about OJ Simpson if only a fraction of them get read? The web is a prime example of this: most of the billion+ pages out there have had barely any views -- thus effectively "killing" them.