I have become addicted to twitter. There is something about twitter that makes me feel like I am ease dropping on other peoples conversations. At times the bits of conversation I gather are informative and interesting, other times they are nothing but non sequiturs and noise. It’s the latter that drives me nuts. I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'attention'
To Delete (private) or Not To Delete (not private)..
August 18th, 2006 No Comments
That is the question, is it private or not private, or is it even your data. This all, in an interesting article about search history and how it should be handled (via WSJ).
John Battelle thinks the search engines should take a stronger position.
The Attention Trust lays out the principles that customers should require of their [...]
Tags: attention · f4t · John-Battelle · privacy · search
Cognitive Economy: A Great Podcast
August 2nd, 2006 2 Comments
Verna Allee gave a presentation at MeshForum 2006 on Value Networks. I think this is a great presentation. She describes:
“A value network is a way at looking at any purposeful organization, company, or network. It is any web of relationships that creates value through complex, dynamic exchanges of tangible and intangible value.”
She makes the [...]
Tags: attention · cognitive-economy · review · verna-Allee
The Biggest Barrier to an Attention Economy
July 23rd, 2006 No Comments
Eric Norlin in his post Pushing back on Google’s identity silo identifies the biggest barrier to an attention economy.
the fundamental problem at the heart of all of this “identity 2.0″ stuff that I’ve been talking about: the existing silos (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, etc.) have *no* immediate business reason for opening their identity silos (at least, [...]
Tags: attention · Eric-Norlin · identity
Jason Calacanis offers to pay for Attention and Gestures
July 21st, 2006 No Comments
Jason Calacanis made an offer to the top contributors of flickr, Digg, Reddit and Newsvine:
We will pay you $1,000 a month for your “social bookmarking” rights. Put in at least 150 stories a month and we’ll give you $12,000 a year. (note: most of these folks put in 250-400 stories a month, so that 150 [...]
Tags: attention · gestures · jason-calacanis · mike-arrington
Coginitive Efficiencies – Friedrich Nietzsche – Jeff Veen
July 19th, 2006 3 Comments
I was reading Jeffrey Veen’s post titled “Intellectual Bargain Shopping” and found the quote below by Friedrich Nietzsche to be very interesting.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Jeffrey Veen comments on [...]
Tags: attention · cognitive-economy · Jeff-Veen
More on Attention efficiency
July 8th, 2006 3 Comments
The opportunity I see (not the only one) in the attention portion of the cognitive economy, resides in the creation of applications that reduce the amount of attention we have to spend doing meaningless or redundant stuff. If you run a business think about how much time a customer has to spend to complete [...]
Tags: attention · attention-efficiency
Attention OS and The Cognitive Economy my thoughts
July 5th, 2006 No Comments
In roughly 50 lines of text Steve Gillmor roughs out the Attention OS. The article has triggered many thoughts, so I will just lay them out in a series of posts.
The Cognitive economy is based on value created by individuals powered by a cognitive suite of tools, services, repositories and raw [...]
Tags: attention · attention-OS · cognitive-economy