As mentioned in the lecture, attention economy is a new economy. The attention can be seen as property or wealth because they can help you to do business and earn money.
The Openrice website is one of the platforms developing the attention economy. Openrice is a website that people can share and comment on the restaurants that they dine at. People can post photos of the dishes and share their feedback. They can also select whether the restaurant is good or bad.
When I want to find a good restaurant in Kowloon Tong, I can go to Openrice website and see the comment of others. The website has a ranking of good restaurant and bad restaurant. Some good restaurants are in great attention, so more and more people will go and try. On the other hand, the bad restaurant can also in great attention, but less people will go and try. This shows that under the attention economy, people can choose a good restaurant easily.
However, I will not always trust on the ranking. As I know, some of the restaurants are not that bad. However, their locations have low accessibility. Less people will go; the ranking on Openrice is low. So I recommend all of you to look for some new good restaurant but not just rely on Openrice.
I love to go to Openrice when i looking for a good restaurants. I like the ranking system yet i will not trust it entirly. I will read all the comments, because some of the comments maybe type by the restaurant themselves or by their competitors.
回覆刪除I think i will trust my friends more than websites like this. :D However, if my friends have no idea about that particular restaurant, I sometimes go to Openrice and check the comments about the restaurant. I agree with Agnes that some of the comments may be added be the resaurant itself or its competitors. Thus, the websites sometimes cannot completely reflect the reality.
回覆刪除I used to rely on Openrice before. When my family and friends asked me where to have dinner, I usually surf Openrice for "brainstorming". Finally, I found that I gained bad experiences rather than good experiences most of the time.
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