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Great piece by Kevin Kelly on how money isn’t in t...

Great piece by Kevin Kelly on how money isn’t in the copies but in the attention: better than free.

Linked on 3rd February 2008 Details

“Heavy multitaskers are often extremely confident ...

“Heavy multitaskers are often extremely confident in their abilities”

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Posted on 2nd February 2010 Details

On the Complicated Economics of Attention Capital

Are distracting technologies partially to blame for our economy’s sluggish productivity numbers?

Linked on 1st December 2017 Details

Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention

Cory Doctorow on our never ending cycle of adaptation to new methods of persuasion.

Linked on 11th January 2018 Details

Pay to reach your followers

This is where we are now. Getting charged to reach your own followers on social media. The honey pot is working.

Linked on 11th January 2018 Details

Appholes and Contracts.

Fantastic article by Craig Mod on the implicit contracts we enter into when giving our attention to digital media. He refers to this as a lack of edges which is the best description I've seen of the issue to date. Read it.

Linked on 14th October 2019 Details

“Emily in Paris” and the rise of ambient TV.

They're deliberately creating TV content as a background to people's phone addiction now.

It’s O.K. to look at your phone all the time, the show seems to say, because Emily does it, too. The episodic plots are too thin to ever be confusing; when you glance back up at the television, chances are that you’ll find tracking shots of the Seine or cobblestoned alleyways, lovely but meaningless.

Linked on 29th November 2020 Details

Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen.

“Obesity is not a medical epidemic – it’s a social epidemic. We have bad food, for example, and so people are getting fat.” The way we live changed dramatically – our food supply changed, and we built cities that are hard to walk or cycle around, and those changes in our environment led to changes in our bodies. We gained mass, en masse. Something similar, he said, might be happening with the changes in our attention.

Johann Hari believes we now need an attention movement to reclaim our minds and I definitely agree. I've felt this theft of my attention too.

Linked on 11th January 2022 Details