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SIGCHI Bulletin Vol.29 No.1, January 1997: "Finding and Reminding" Revisited: Appropriate Metaphors for File Organization at the Desktop
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Softpanorama Chronic Overload Page
"In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, an evil king,
was condemned to Hades to forever roll a big rock to the top of a mountain,
and then the rock always rolled back down again.
Similar version of Hell is suffered every day by people
managed by micromanagers and control freaks."
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Blogging Section of SLA-IT: SLA008: Keeping Found Things Found
"What is new is the fragmentation of information. The problem is coming from all of the tools we have that are meant to help us keep track of information. Tools like our online calendar, websites, journals, budgets, TV, travel schedules, deadlines, contact lists, etc. Because of fragmentation, even a simple decision means checking in several places - email, calendar, web, files, etc."
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When I started writing on blogs, I started to remember more! The fact is that when you write things down it makes it easier to understand things. William had a student who would take notes and not refer to them - because the power is in writing it down.
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We talk about information overload all of the time - but the fact is that information overload is nothing new. He referred to this quote from 1685 by Adrien Baillet:
“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.” That is, “unless we try to prevent this danger by separating those books which we must throw out or leave in oblivion from those which one should save and within the latter between what is useful and what is not.”
Web Worker Daily » Archive Master Your Information Manifesto: 21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload «
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Richard M. Weaver -- Ideas Have Consequences
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I have been chiefly impressed by
the difficulty of getting certain initial facts admitted. This difficulty is due in part to the
widely prevailing Whig theory of history, with its belief that the most advanced point in time
represents the point of highest development, aided no doubt by theories of evolution which suggest
to the uncritical a kind of necessary passage from simple to complex. -
Yet the real trouble is found
to lie deeper than this. It is the appalling problem, when one comes to actual cases, of getting
men to distinguish between better and worse. -
There is ground for declaring that
modern man has become a moral idiot. So few are those who care to examine their lives, or to accept
the rebuke which comes of admitting that our present state may be a fallen state, that one
questions whether people now understand what is meant by the superiority of an ideal. -
We have for many years moved with a brash confidence that man had
achieved a position of independence which rendered the ancient restraints needless. Now, in the
first half of the twentieth century, at the height of modern progress, we behold unprecedented
outbreaks of hatred and violence; we have seen whole nations desolated by war and turned into penal
camps by their conquerors; we find half of mankind looking upon the other half as criminal.
Everywhere occur symptoms of mass psychosis. -
Like Macbeth, Western man made an evil decision, which has become the efficient and final cause
of other evil decisions. Have we forgotten our encounter with the witches on the heath? It occurred
in the late fourteenth century, and what the witches said to the protagonist of this drama was that
man could realize himself more fully if he would only abandon his belief in the existence of
transcendentals. -
It was William of Occam who propounded
the fateful doctrine of nominalism, which denies that universals have a real existence. -
The practical result of
nominalist philosophy is to banish the reality which is perceived by the intellect and to posit as
reality that which is perceived by the senses. With this change in the affirmation of what is real,
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The denial of universals carries with it the denial of
everything transcending experience. The denial of everything transcending experience means
inevitably-though ways are found to hedge on this-the denial of truth. With the denial of objective
truth there is no escape from the relativism of "man the measure of all things." -
The expulsion of the element of unintelligibility in nature was
followed by the abandonment of the doctrine of original sin. If physical nature is the totality and
if man is of nature, it is impossible to think of him as suffering from constitutional evil; his
defections must now be attributed to his simple ignorance or to some kind of social deprivation.
One comes thus by clear deduction to the corollary of the natural goodness of man. -
There followed references to "nature and nature's God," and the
anomaly of a "humanized" religion. -
After it has been granted that man is molded entirely by environmental pressures, one is
obligated to extend the same theory of causality to his institutions. The social philosophers of
the nineteenth century found in Darwin powerful support for their thesis that human beings act
always out of economic incentives, and it was they who completed the abolishment of freedom of the
will. The great pageant of history thus became reducible to the economic endeavors of individuals
and classes; and elaborate prognoses were constructed on the theory of economic conflict and
resolution. Man created in the divine image, the protagonist of a great drama in which his soul was
at stake, was replaced by man the wealth-seeking and -consuming animal. -
There is no term proper to describe the condition in which he is now left unless it be
"abysmality." He is in the deep and dark abysm, and he has nothing with which to raise
himself. His life is practice without theory. As problems crowded upon him, he deepens confusion by
meeting them with ad hoc policies. Secretly he hungers for truth but consoles himself with
the thought that life should be experimental. He sees his institutions crumbling and rationalizes
with talk of emancipation. Wars have to be fought, seemingly with increased frequency; therefore he
revives the old ideals-ideals which his present assumptions actually render meaningless-and, by the
machinery of state, forces them again to do service. He struggles with the paradox that total
immersion in matter unfits him to deal with the problems of matter. -
if words no longer
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The Renaissance
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it was still, by heritage, at least, an ideational world and was therefore near
enough transcendental conceptions to perceive the dehumanizing effects of specialization. -
a patent increase in man's dominion over
nature which dazzled all but the most thoughtful -
popular education. The latter might have proved a good in itself, but it was wrecked onAdd Sticky Note
equalitarian democracy's unsolvable problem of authority: none was in a position to say what the
hungering multitudes were to be fed.- The problem of authority in popular education.posted by wisely on 2008-04-23
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might have proved a good in itself, but it was wrecked onAdd Sticky Note
equalitarian democracy's unsolvable problem of authority: none was in a position to say what the
hungering multitudes were to be fed.- The problem of authority in education.posted by wisely on 2008-04-23
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in an
abdication of the authority of knowledge, came the elective system. -
This was followed by a carnival
of specialism, professionalism, and vocationalism, often fostered and protected by strange
bureaucratic devices, so that on the honored name of university there traded a weird con genes of
interests, not a few of which were anti-intellectual even in their pretensions. Institutions of
learning did not check but rather contributed to the decline by losing interest in Homo sapiens
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This story of man's passage from religious or philosophical transcendentalism has been told manyAdd Sticky Note
times, and, since it has usually been told as a story of progress, it is extremely difficult today
to get people in any number to see contrary implications. Yet to establish the fact of decadence is
the most pressing duty of our time because, until we have demonstrated that cultural decline is a
historical fact-which can be established-and that modern man has about squandered his estate, we
cannot combat those who have fallen prey to hysterical optimism.- A noteworthy quotation.posted by wisely on 2008-04-23
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Such is the task, and our most serious obstacle is that people traveling this downward path
develop an insensibility which increases with their degradation. Loss is perceived most clearly at
the beginning; after habit becomes implanted, one beholds the anomalous situation of apathy
mounting as the moral crisis deepens. It is when the first faint warnings come that one has the
best chance to save himself; and this, I suspect, explains why medieval thinkers were extremely
agitated over questions which seem to us today without point or relevance. If one goes on, the
monitory voices fade out, and it is not impossible for him to reach a state in which his entire
moral orientation is lost. Thus in the face of the enormous brutality of our age we seem unable to
make appropriate response to perversions of truth and acts of bestiality. Multiplying instances
show complacency in the presence of contradiction which denies the heritage of Greece, and a
callousness to suffering which denies the spirit of Christianity. Particularly since the great wars
do we observe this insentience. We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the
capacity to perceive it and degraded without means to measure our descent. -
when we reflect upon the cataclysms of the age, we are chiefly impressed with the
failure of men to rise to the challenge of them. -
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it
cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. -
For, as the course goes on, the movement turns
centrifugal; we rejoice in our abandon and are never so full of the sense of accomplishment as when
we have struck some bulwark of our culture a deadly blow. -
In view of these circumstances, it is no matter for surprise that, when we ask people even to
consider the possibility of decadence, we meet incredulity and resentment. We must consider that we
are in effect asking for a confession of guilt and an acceptance of sterner obligation; we are
making demands in the name of the ideal or the suprapersonal, and we cannot expect a more cordial
welcome than disturbers of complacency have received in any other age. -
Added to this is the egotism of modern man, fed by
many springs, which will scarcely permit the humility needed for self-criticism. -
The apostles of modernism usually begin their retort with catalogues of modern achievement, not
realizing that here they bear witness to their immersion in particulars. -
Whoever desires to praise some modern
achievement should wait until he has related it to the professed aims of our civilization as
rigorously as the Schoolmen related a corollary to their doctrine of the nature of God. All
demonstrations lacking this are pointless. -
If it can be agreed, however, that we are to talk about ends before means, we may begin by
asking some perfectly commonplace questions about the condition of modern man. Let us, first of
all, inquire whether he knows more or is, on the whole, wiser than his predecessors. -
The whole tendency of modern thought, one might say its whole moral impulse, is to keep the
individual busy with endless induction. Since the time of Bacon the world has been running away
from, rather than toward, first principles, so that, on the verbal level, we see "fact"
substituted for "truth," and on the philosophic level, we witness attack upon abstract
ideas and speculative inquiry. -
the average man has become imbued with this notion and imagines that an
industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust
does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a
great many small things. -
If our contemporary
belongs to a profession, he may be able to describe some tiny bit of the world with minute
fidelity, but still he lacks understanding. -
It may be doubted whether one person in three draws what may be correctly termed knowledge from his freely chosen reading matter. The staggering number of facts to which he today has access serves only to draw him away from consideration of first principles, so that his orientation becomes peripheral. And looming above all as a reminder of this fatuity is the tragedy of modern Germany, the one totally literate nation.Add Sticky Note
- The perils of infomation-overload? The peril of neglecting God -- neglecting virtue?posted by wisely on 2008-04-23
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One of the strangest
disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by older and simpler societies and
the sense of scarcity felt by the ostensibly richer societies of today. -
Standards of
consumption which he cannot meet, and which he does not need to meet, come virtually in the guise
of duties. -
it is a constant
law of human nature that the more a man has to indulge in, the less disposed he is to endure the
discipline of toil-that is to say, the less willing he is to produce that which is to be consumed. -
A great material establishment, by its very temptation to
luxuriousness, unfits the owner for the labor necessary to maintain it, as has been observed
countless times in the histories of individuals and of nations. -
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more
power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. Look at him
today somewhere in the warren of a great city. -
Modern social and corporate organization makes independence an expensive thing; in
fact, it may make common integrity a prohibitive luxury for the ordinary man, as Stuart Chase has
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that some cultures have passed from a high state of organization to
dissolution can be demonstrated as objectively as anything in history. One has only to think of
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The assertion that changes from generation to generation are
illusory and that there exist only cycles of biological reproduction is another form of that denial
of standards, and ultimately of knowledge, which lies at the source of our degradation.
informationfluency » home
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Overchoice and Assortment Type
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Amazon.com: "Libraries: History and Philosphy"
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Dave's cool list - NeverEndingSearch
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10. Connectivism:
Dave notes, "Connecting is the only way we can succeed in the world of edtech. This year's theme for the top 10 list is connecting and the forces of bad that are trying to stop us from sharing."
Yes, Dave, those of us who CONNECTED, especially this year, recognize how dramatically our learning has expanded, how our professional networks have grown. But as I travel and talk to other educators I recognize how many of us--teachers and learners--cannot yet connect from our schools. I recognize how many do not yet see the potential. -
This year, for me, was the year that everyone began to discover a proliferation of Creative Commons and copyright friendly materials as options to help my students avoid those legal implications. This was also the year those free Web-based apps and open source alternatives gained true mainstream popularity.
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Ustream
If you haven't yet tried this new production and sharing tool, it's absolutely time to explore. Ustream is:platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can use Ustream to broadcast to a global audience.
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4. CHEAPO computers in 3rd world--Computer wars
Dave points to OLPC’s (One Laptop Per Child) windmill tilting, noting that it forced everyone else in the computer industry to drive down their own entry level offerings toward the $200 mark. He calls this effort a nice corporate bidding game shielded under the guise of third world revitalization, but he recognizes the potential of this effort to connect huge numbers of the formerly unconnected. -
3. Choice
Dave notes: I can’t be everywhere. Every educator is having to decide where they will stake ground. To twitter or not to twitter.
This is the story that resonates loudest with me. Some folks in this 2.0 universe truly seem to be able to be everywhere. I can no longer make every interesting Webcast. I can't Twitter everyday. I read fewer blogs than I once did. I give in. I can't keep keeping up. I am learning to accept that keeping up enough may be enough. I am also learning that when I log off at 9 PM, my world of tech awareness does not collapse. -
2. Twitter
Dave says,Twitter has brought new meaning to "connected." I now know when people are getting out of bed, what they put in their coffee, and how good the cleaning staff is at their schools.
This one would definitely be on the top of my own top ten list. This microblogging strategy has changed how I operate. Sure my Twitter network provides a lot of meaningless (but sometimes entertaining) tweets. It also feeds me with new applications to introduce at school, issues to think and blog about, the webcasts and podcasts I need to see and hear.
291,000 Books Published in 2006; Industry Focuses on Niche Books (vampires, paranormal romance)
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U.S. title output in 2006 increased by more than 3% to 291,920 new
titles and editions, up from the 282,500 published in 2005. -
"Blockbuster books just aren't enough to lift the industry," said Norris.
"Recognizing this, publishers are exploiting the market opportunity of
producing niche books targeted to small audiences who are passionate about
the subject. For example, books on vampires, auto racing and paranormal
romance are just a few of the small and vibrant categories out there." -
The religious book category recovered from its 2005 free-fall with
17,921 titles released in 2006. This figure is up 6% from the 16,785
titles released in 2005, but still 21% down from the 21,669 religious
titles released in 2004.
How can Responsiveness help your Professional Reputation? « Email Overloaded
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If people’s opinion of you were based solely on your email responsiveness, can you imagine what they would think of you?
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Michael Hyatt, President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, makes the following connection between responsiveness and responsibility (literally: one’s ability to respond):
As I was making my way to the top, my former boss, Sam Moore, used to ask everyone I worked with, “What’s it like to work with Mike?” “How’s he really doing?” “Do you think he could take on more responsibility?” In responding to him, all they had was their experience with me. If I hadn’t been responsive to them, how do you think they would have responded to his questions? “More responsibility? Are you kidding me? He can’t handle what he has now!” It wouldn’t take too many candid responses like that to tank my career.
Email Bankruptcy Continues to Spread 5/25/2007
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The article is full of sad cases of people who think that declaring email bankruptcy will solve their problem. It won’t.
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Just as people without financial skills may find themselves bankrupt, people who lack email and time-management skills will find themselves wanting to declare email bankruptcy.
Knowledge Jolt with Jack: The dying art of information literacy 5/18/2007
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I suspect information overload has a reverse problem along these lines: the lack of desire to seek out high-quality information gets washed out in the too-much-information river.
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Why is this important? Individually, I want to be sure I have the best sources and information to answer a given question or problem. The reason I might use the first answer I find on Google is that it seems to be "good enough" to the fit of my problem. I evaluate any answers I find online (or in books and journals) with what I already know of a given topic, and whether the given information seems to fit with my mental model of the problem at hand. I even look for insights that counter my intuition, just in case I have it wrong to begin with. I note that this happens for me very quickly and naturally as I troll through found materials. I tend to do more research on a given topic when I know something big is on the line.
Good Experience - Introducing Gootodo, a bit-literate todo list
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I'm happy to announce my latest Goo' app, which I hope will greatly increase personal productivity for thousands, eventually millions, of Internet users: Gootodo.com, a todo list that lets you forward e-mails to future days, so you don't have to deal with them today.
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A great deal of productivity is at stake. In my experience, bit literate users are several times faster at completing tasks, with fewer errors, better organized in general, and perhaps most importantly, less stressed about their jobs.
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One key piece in bit literacy is knowing how to use e-mail. So a couple of years back I wrote a Managing Incoming E-mail report, which has been very popular (and recently covered in this Forbes article [and later in this Chicago Tribune piece]). But while better e-mail practices helped users to some extent, there was always still one missing piece: the todo list.
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Enter the Good Experience todo list, or Gootodo for short: a Web-based app that in my experience is the most productive todo list I've ever seen, on any platform.
Thought leader: Long live the 'network'... - Inside Knowledge
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Take Wikipedia as an easy example. While it is often criticised for pandering to the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ – that is to say, whatever the majority and those with too much time on their hands believe is true tends to become ‘wiki fact’, more considered opinions are edited out by the ‘crowd’ – just look at the immense resource it has become.
The great libraries of antiquity, lovingly put together over decades, have nothing on Wikipedia, a project that has harnessed the knowledge of the global community, not just a handful of ‘wise men’, and which is available to everyone, everywhere for no charge.
Connecting the Dots: Being a Thought Leader in a Time of Collective Intelligence
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I've been thinking about what it means to be a thought leader in a time where the tools to deliver thoughts globally are easier to use and more available than at any time in human history.
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you have a perfect storm of communication methods that is perfect for thought leaders to deliver big thoughts and facilitate the conversation.
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What's missing? Aggregators of thought leaders coupled with community networks. Corante is one organization that has done a fine job of pulling together thought leaders into one core group around subject categories. Another fine one is ManyWorlds. These and others do not, however, facilitate the conversation in my opinion. They're set as experts or thought leaders somehow above us who read them.
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I don't believe that experts exist. For the same reason unconferences (read Dave Winer's take on them) have exploded on to the scene and are beginning to disrupt the conference-as-a-huge-revenue-generator
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Oliver Schwabe has one of the best posts about this topic I've read in some time entitled, The guru is dead. Long live the network:
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America's founding fathers understood humans innate propensity to create mobs and set up a representative democracy to ensure stuff got done and kept anarchy at a minimum.
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I look
for signal and try to minimize noise. THAT is what will separate
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I still marvel at Slashdot as one example that works and where the community crushes trolls and has a fairly decent reputation system that minimizes gaming of it and tilts toward meaningful conversation. I've yet to develop my thinking on what the sweet spot is between control and anarchy and would be interested in your thoughts...
Infoluenza
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- The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses.
- An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the Australian dream.
- An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.
couple of years ago, Clive Hamilton from the Australia Institute wrote a book called Affluenza. In this book, he defined affluenza as:
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His thesis was that we work hard to pay off the mortgage and buy material goods but that our growing wealth only serves to increase our desires for more material possessions. Our attachment to money and material possessions robs us of autonomy and fails to deliver happiness. It’s a disease and one that appears for many people, very hard to cure. It’s not affluence that is the problem but affluenza, our attachment to materialism.
Knowledge Jolt with Jack: Infoluenza cures
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Is Twitter TOO good?
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Twitter scares me. For all its popularity, I see at least three issues: 1) it's a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines. 2) The strong "feeling of connectedness" Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking its having a meaningful social interaction, while another (ancient) part of the brain "knows" something crucial to human survival is missing. 3) Twitter is yet another--potentially more dramatic--contribution to the problems of always-on multi-tasking... you can't be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep thought and/or a flow state.
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Patricia Wallace, a techno-psychologist,...believes part of the allure of e-mail--for adults as well as teens--is similar to that of a slot machine. "You have intermittent, variable reinforcement," she explains. "You are not sure you are going to get a reward every time or how often you will, so you keep pulling that handle."
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Coffee with your next-door neighbor could do more for your brain than a thousand Twitter updates.
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3) Twitter is the best/worst cause of continuous partial attention
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And not only are we stopping ourselves from ever getting in flow, we're stopping ourselves from ever getting really good at something. From becoming experts. The brain scientists now tell us that becoming an expert is not a matter of being a prodigy, it's a matter of being able to focus.
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Do I think Twitter has benefits? Clearly, and Tara does a great job of defining them (although not everyone agrees that these things are all benefits, they are for her and that's what matters).
Do I think people can use Twitter responsibly, without letting it get out of control or become too much of a distraction or encourage the same kind of voyeurism that makes tabloid news and TV so pervasively popular in the US?
Yes, definitely.All I'm saying is that beyond the hype, we should consider just how far down the rabbit hole of always-on-attention we really want to go.
I am not in the target audience for Twitter--I am by nature a loner. I don't want to be that connected. And I also have a huge appreciation for the art of keeping the mystery alive. I don't want to know that much about so many people, and I sure don't want people to know that much about me... mundane or otherwise. So, that puts me in the minority, and my Twitter fears are probably based solely on my own--quirky and less common--personality traits.