boyd posted notes from her Web2.0 talk, “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media” As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get content to anyone else. With the barriers to [...]
[18 Nov 2009]
The CBC’s Spark podcast is one of my regular listens. One recent episode featured an interview with Linda Stone, a longtime tech thought leader. She coined the term continuous partial attention, to describe our new way of multi-tasking and always-on communications. Now Stone has coined a new phrase: e-mail apnea. Stone first described e-mail apnea [...]
[8 Nov 2009]