Back in May, I wrote Turn On, Tune In, Opt Out. I’m increasingly confident that it’s the next big trend in technology. For the past 7 years, my bellwether for innovative, compelling, new technologies has been Dave Winer. Even before Google+ has been opened up to the general Google public – he’s taken a look …
Category Archives: Attention
Turn On, Tune In, Opt Out
For a couple years now, I’ve felt Timothy Leary’s 60’s mantra ‘Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out‘ has gained new relevance. The first two sections of the triplet seemed quite obvious. We can even re-use Leary’s explanation of them. The third section was more elusive. While Leary preferred to describe it as a commitment on …
We Aggregate and Filter Each Other
Great post over at the Pomo blog, Pardon my removal of the blacklisted buzzwords. 😉 “Because there are far more people creating content than there is time for people to consume it. Therefore, trusted, smart filters… become desirable. Who does the filtering? Sometimes, it’s a person or people, but increasingly we consumers do it ourselves” …
Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters
David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the …
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RSS Puts Identification in the Hands of Your Customers
I’m listening to the Individualized-RSS podcast over at Marketing Edge podcast. The conversation is an attempt to bring the weakness of email into the strength of RSS (or verse-vica as the case maybe) – unique reader identification. This is what I alluded to in this post from a couple months ago. There’s nothing in the …
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The Bottomless Feed and the Need for Now Context
“I’ve punted on trying to catch up on 19,000+ updated posts in Bloglines. I don’t have the time, or interest, in trying to sift through them all. I picked out a few blogs from a few categories that I’m absolutely interested in and skimmed through them and then marked all as read.” – Ed Costello …
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Eric Larson Reviews My ID3 Mag Article on Listener Metrics
Eric Larson from the Ericast.com digs into my ID3 Mag article on podcast listener metrics. He brings up some good points (it’s a platform-specific solution) and talks about some ways to extend it. Listen here: Ericast 62 – “Tracking Your Attention” mp3
Down and Dirty Listener-Centric Podcasts Metrics Thoughts
The article I whipped up for ID3 Magazine on a listener-to-podcaster metrics method is up; Trees Falling in the Forest: Lowering the Barriers of Connecting Podcasters and their Listeners. In it, I use Applescript to connect iTunes to WordPress as a way for listeners to rank and send rankings of individual podcasts to the podcasters.
First Crack 76. Paying Attention with J Wynia
Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about: Using email clients for reading and managing RSS feeds J’s Windows Attention Recorder and Edison Thomaz’ OnLife and the AttentionTrust Recorder Comparing technology adoption to the ebb and flow of tides The ethics and benefits of attention recording Some thoughts …
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Postel’s Law Asks, What Are You Ignoring Today?
There are quite a few memes circling this week I’m actively ignoring. Things where this sentence is exactly the amount of energy I’m giving them. If you also follow Doc Searls, these are snowballs I don’t think deserve pushing. This is where the attention metadata stuff gets mushy. I’m talking about the triangles in the …
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