Archive For August, 2011

Avoiding Attention Crash

By | August 26, 2011

Attention Crash

  Bernie Goldbach (@topgold on Twitter) wrote a great post about Attention Crash. Inspired in part by Steve Rubel‘s original post, Bernie perfectly explains a growing problem for web professionals who spend increasing time listening and participating on the real-time web. An attention crash affects my ability to think in private and to collaborate effectively. [...]

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No Conference Blues

By | August 19, 2011

Using 4squaredand7yearsago, I discovered that I was arriving in Seattle for Gnomedex on this day last year. Sadly, Gnomedex was discontinued after it’s ten year run. So, there’s no Gnomedex this year. I’m coming to terms with the fact that I likely won’t be attending SXSW this March. I also doubt I will be going to [...]

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Using social media for violence

By | August 11, 2011

There’s an interesting story on All Things Digital today about the UK possibly cracking down on use of social media during events like the riots in London. UK Prime Minister Cameron said: Mr Speaker, everyone watching these horrific actions will be stuck by how they were organised via social media. Free flow of information can [...]

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Create a real photo album

By | August 5, 2011

There’s a great conversation on Uncle Weed’s podcast recently between Dave and Amber Case. You should listen to it. Amber, a rocking cyborg-anthropologist, explains how in the future books will remain while some data will disappear. She made me stop to consider this. What if the Internet disappeared. What if you lost all of your [...]

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