ATTENTION: IN OUR SUPERCONNECTED WORLD, IT'S QUICKLY BECOMING PEOPLE'S MOST SCARCE COMMODITY.
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Blog Everything
The other day Michael asked a question that relates closely to something I've been noodling on for a while: "Is it ethical to blog about something that you find through a link from a cont
November 30, 2006 |
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Niche Choices are More Meaningful
Yesterday morning I realized something that had been floating around in my mind for a while: Niche choices provide a whole lot more insight than mass ones. I was playing with last.fm's similar
September 25, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Controlled Exposure over False Privacy
So privacy's dead. What now? Control. It's time for us to take it back. Everyone is spying on us, so why shouldn't we start spying on ourselves? At least that way we can use that data to our own ends.
September 27, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
Attention-casting
I've been trying to write intelligently about the idea of 'data-blogging' for a while, but haven't been able to articulate it all that well up to this point. In "Blog Everythi
December 6, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
What's the Big Deal about Attention?
In response to my "Unbundled Opoportunities" post, Joshua Porter asked, "what does attention have to do with it?" When Joshua
November 20, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
All the World's a Stage
I'm going to expose some big things here, so be prepared. Journalists are just regular people who write for a magazine. Advertisers are just regular people who work in the advertising industry. Superstars are just reg
August 8, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Why We Do What We Do
I want to talk about attention. More and more lately I've been thinking about it as the primary driver of people's actions on the web. But when you think about it in a larger context, it's really at the center of what much of the population does o
July 27, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Google's Attention Plans
One of the things that keeps coming up in conversations is this little feature buried deep in Google's personalized search. Assuming you have a Google account when you go to Google.com you should see a link in the top right corner that says "searc
May 7, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Incognito Attention Services
This week Nike and Apple announced a very cool partnership. If you buy Nike+iPod Sport Kit you can make your shoes and MP3 player talk to each other. Basically what happens is you put a sensor in your
May 25, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
More Thoughts on Attention
On my walk to work this morning, I had what I think is a little epiphany about this whole Attention thing I wrote about the other day. One of the things
November 21, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Passively Active
All we hear is how small is the new big. Here's the truth: It's not. Small is still the same old small. It's just more scalable than ever. Data's cheap and so is computing power. It's easier than ever to deliver customization and personaliz
September 8, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Vaultstock
In the past I have <a hre
January 12, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Capturing Attention
The idea of attention seems to be at the center of most of my thinking at the moment. The thing is, up to this point, even with all the talk, no one has bothered to explain the whole thing very well. It's almost as if they've skipped that step, as
February 9, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Observations from /VAULTSTOCK
I spent Friday afternoon at /VAULTSTOCK, which was essentially a get together for /ROOT owners and, for me, a chance to better understand an
January 23, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Paris, David Blaine and How Far We Have to Go
It's a bit intimidating/humbling to be going for this walk in Young Noah's shoes - but as he checks in on his ancestors I'll see if I can't move the ball the least bit forward. I was mulling over what to discuss in the past few days and the one th
June 9, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Too Many Producers, Too Few Consumers
I got this really good question from Michael Fergusson in response to a February, 2006 entry of mine titled Capturing Attention
June 5, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS