11 days ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control - Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control: I got distracted and read this article. Fuck!
Linkorama : Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control - Hard work is dead. Are you paying attention?
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Linkorama : How Attention Networks Work: Transcript - Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Posner is an internationally recognized expert on attentional networks and cognition. CJR contributor Russ Juskalian recently talked to Posner about attention, cognition, and how media consumption affects both. This is a f
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Email becomes a dangerous distraction - it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! - makes sense
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Linkorama : Linda Stone: Phone in the Toilet? - We are better at rationalizing what we do than being rational about what we're doing.
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Linkorama : Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List? - Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work - Stowe Boyd's Enterprise 2.0 preso
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Snackr is an RSS Addict's Dream Come True - I'm finding it deserves its own special purpose opml, because it is more distracting than twitter, doesnt synch attention with Newsgator and has a high cognitive load when scanning.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : "Atomization of Conversation" - Conversations are indeed becoming atomized and asynchronous. No need for the "Hey, how are you doing?" discussion. Personal dialog is being replaced by a Mini-feed.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Information Arbitrage and the Window of Opportunity - This is a similar point to what I was attempting to make in my Content = Community post in that until people *do* something with information, it might as well not exist in terms of value.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : My Social Media Consumption Workflow - Sounds like someone needs to use an RSS newsreader
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Alpha Twitter - Ranks Most Popular Shared Links from Twitter: Silicon Valley Blog
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nelson : Laptopless meetings - LA Times article on distractions in meetings, including a quote from me!
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Linkorama : Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea - I've just opened my email and there's nothing out of the ordinary there. It's the usual daily flood of schedule, project, travel, information, and junk mail. Then I notice...I'm holding my breath.
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12 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Is the Tipping Point Toast?: maybe influentials aren't after all?
WillPate : The tipping point theory gets more complicated
Linkorama : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Yet, if you believe Watts, all that money and effort is being wasted. Because according to him, Influentials have no such effect. Indeed, they have no special role in trends at all.
philgyford : Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting - Much-linked-to article saying that Influentials aren't as influential as 'The Tipping Point' would have us believe."When you test the way marketers say the world works, it falls apart."
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20 month ago
Linkorama : The Power of Power Laws - Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Joi Ito's Web: Mindfulness and deferred yak shaving
deusx : Joi Ito's Web: Mindfulness and deferred yak shaving - "I figure I should probably be respectful to the spirit of the promise with the "meditation me" so that I'll continue to trust my requests for deferred yak shaving during my meditation."
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Interview with Jyri Engeström - Interview with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engeström. I don't think people appreciate how early and well thought Jaiku's first steps are.
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deusx : Open the Future: Augmented Fluid Intelligence - "These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : Slife Labs - App which tracks what you're browsing/reading/writing/working-on over time. Kind of cool to build up a picture of your day. #
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Open Data 2007 - I’m in New York at the Open Data conference, hosted by AttentionTrust and Reuters. As if by some unseen uber-twitter, Ross Mayfield and Stowe Boyd have popped up recently with tomes on attention or the lack of it. ReadWrite Web also weighed in. The worl
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Overload, Shmoverload - We are switching to a time in which the dominant mode will be flow, not focus. # In an era of flow you can ignore things that don't look threatening or critical. Important stuff will be signalled in a bunch of ways: critical breaking news stories wil
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23 month ago
Linkorama : Gaming email currency - there's that old business plan again. problem is getting critical mass, however
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43folders : How can I learn to work without medication? | Ask MetaFilter - "I can spend an entire day trying to write a single short email or wash a fork and plate."
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43folders : WikiHome - JotSpot Wiki (continuouspartialattention) - "Linda Stone's Thoughts on Attention and Specifically, Continuous Partial Attention"
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