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Important stuff here that overlaps with many of my concerns: attention, participatory agility, character-- the stuff of information fluency, etc. Much to chew on

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"Promoting the emergence of a broad culture of contemplation in the academy." This is exactly (part of) what I've been harping endlessly about...

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There is no giving up the internet now. And truly no logical reason exists why you couldn't be a thorough reader of both Proust and Gawker—both, after all, are interested in gossip—or couldn't exchange, by snail-mail, long, unbosoming letters with the same friend with whom you trade ticklishly glib text messages. A regular visitor to YouTube—a realm of mostly short, grainy clips pitched to amusement—can in theory also be a fan of Tarkovsky's long, eidetic, and solemn productions. The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you.

Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to. The experience of being online has at least as much to do with compulsiveness as with liberty.

www.nplusonemag.com/lingering - Preview

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Some techniques I've used in different presentations discussed here...

nvac.pnl.gov/...sub22.pdf - Preview

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"Freedom is a shareware application that users instruct to disable their computers' network adapters for a fixed period of time, leaving them unable to browse the Internet for up to eight hours." via @hrheingold

chronicle.com/...ars-from-computer-distractions - Preview

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"Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering. "

blog.wired.com/...attentionlost.html - Preview

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"We can make choices about policies, such as paid family leave, which would change things for the better. But a lot of the forces, like increased individuation and technology, are going to dictate life, whether we like it or not. I do know folks who sell the business, pack up everything, move to rural Maine and build a log cabin. I think it's interesting that for them it takes such a drastic act to regain control of their lives. The challenge for most of us is to manage these buzzing, beeping demands on us while being part of the mainstream economy. And at the same time preserve some things we value outside that sphere."

www.salon.com/...dalton_conley - Preview

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This makes a lot of sense to me. Resonates with my philosophy and creeping technological determinism...

melaniemcbride.net/...nce-in-the-age-of-social-media - Preview

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Yes, I suffer sometimes from NADD, minus the television

www.randsinrepose.com/...nadd.html - Preview

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Ulises Mejias has created a paper-based game to help students understand the nature of the attention economy. Interesting...

blog.ulisesmejias.com/...attention-economy-the-game - Preview

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How in the world have I never seen this personal music magazine, customized based on one's attention data?

www.idiomag.com/ - Preview

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A lot like twitter but even more features. The only problem? Everyone is on Twitter...

jaiku.com - Preview

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I predicted this a while back-- share your complete browsing clickstream, watch others, see who is watching you... be careful where you browse when they are watching...

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