Youssef El Ayadi on 2008-12-25
Great comment linking web 3.0 and attention economy and information overload.
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I am glad I found this article, it gave me plenty food for thought.
To me, the attention economy described here is just a meta-economy and therefore simply postpones the problem of information overload. Currently, web 2.0 is taking over web 1.0 and soon a need for web 3.0 will emerge. Attention economy may help towards 3.0, but I'm afraid one cannot circumvent the laws of entropy and information simply by tricking, rearranging or reorganising information into successive meta-levels.
Youssef El Ayadi on 2008-12-25
Great comment linking web 3.0 and attention economy and information overload.
l"aw of information, stated first by Herbert Simon: the rapid growth of information causes scarcity of attention."
abundance authority information_overload information_fluency
When information is abundant, the false positives are very costly - they are basically deal breakers. (crucial - so transparency and genuine value as defined by the individual user is the only way to survive in increasing information overflow).
The basic
While commercially motivated the idea of the attention economy may have notions for the JISC DPIE personalisation study, see the diagram 'The attention economy - putting the user in control' for some architectural relevance to the study
The founders of AttentionTrust succeeded in defining a simple, elegant, yet encompassing set of principles that define the rules of the game, by outlining the basic consumer rights in the AttentionEconomy
The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, photos, videos and cool MySpace pages. And the problem is only going to get worse, as more and more people discover the new web.
"The basic ideas behind the Attention Economy are simple. Such an economy facilitates a marketplace where consumers agree to receives services in exchange for their attention... "
It is no secret that we live in an information overload age. The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, photos, videos and cool MySpace pages. And the problem is only going t
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Here is an outline of what the Attention Architecture will look like...
Quoted: The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, photos, videos and cool ...
An interesting analysis of how the web is growing and how we can sift through all the information.
AttentionTrust has created a Firefox
add-on called AttentionRecorder which captures clickstream and redirects to a vault. The
user also has a choice of where to store the data. A standard protocol between the
attention capturing software and storage software ensures that users have the choice.
The user information that is stored in the database can be accessed by trusted
services. These services, approved by the user in advance, have the opportunity to take
advantage of the user information to deliver personalization.
Here are some of the important issues that
need to be addressed:
The
founders of AttentionTrust succeeded in
defining a simple, elegant, yet encompassing set of principles that define the rules of
the game, by outlining the basic consumer rights in the AttentionEconomy:
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