New, easy-to-use applications make it seem like “Less is More”. But is Less really More? I don’t think so. The new wave of applications are great because they’re networked, not because many of them just happen to have less features. Human needs rarely change. We need to be watered, fed, exercised, sheltered, talked-to, challenged, appreciated, […]

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Alex has posted the 2nd half of the podcast he made out of a conversation we had this past week. We talked about attention, OPML, RSS, and everything in between. You’ll notice that we’re not format experts, and that’s basically the point, and leads to the question we keep asking: “How will this affect normal […]

Continue Reading: Attention Podcast with Alex Barnett, Part 2

Alex Barnett has posted the first half of a podcast of a conversation that he and I had yesterday. Alex went through it immediately after we talked, wrote up some helpful notes with times on them (so you can skip around if you like), and published it. Thanks Alex! For those unfamiliar with Alex, he’s […]

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One thing that really sticks in my craw is how many salesmen take advantage of ignorance. When I bought my first car, for example, the salesman considered me as someone who he should try and get as much money from as he could, not someone who he should offer a fair deal in the hopes […]

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So Dave Winer finally linked to Steve Gillmor. That’s how big this attention thing is getting. Dave, whom I don’t know personally but from reading him for two years I can tell he is as deliberate as they come, silently admitted in linking to Steve that attention is becoming a coin of the realm. Of […]

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Update: Added slide deck. Ok, this is scary. I’m posting a podcast of me giving a talk on Web 2.0. (also posted on Brain Sparks, the supremely interesting UIE blog). My wife assures me that my voice does indeed sound like that, (much to my dismay). I was asked to speak at an NEASIST event […]

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Update: Robert Scoble has addressed my question in a post this evening. He says that I’m asking the wrong question, but then goes on to say that Microsoft should become more trustful anyway…(so apparently my question wasn’t completely wrong). It is certainly the right one for me, anyway. I think I get his point, though…that […]

Continue Reading: Why Should I Trust Microsoft with My Attention Metadata?

Herbert Simon famously once said: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” This quote is turning into one of the mantras […]

Continue Reading: AttentionTrust – Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You