Joshua at Bokardo thinking about attention
I’ve been really digging a lot of what Joshua Porter says over at Bokardo (and I really like the layout and interface of his site). But here’s a timely tale:
Here’s a scenario sure to be familiar to most of you:
You’re in your feed reader, and you’re scanning your feeds to see what’s new and interesting….Your problem is becoming more apparent (and worse) every day: which posts do I read? Which ones get my finite attention?
Bokardo » A Scenario about What Goes On when You’re Using a Feed Reader
I say timely in part due to Steve Gillmor (et. al.) and attention.xml. I can’t say for sure, but it seems that Josh may have started thinking about this dilemma without reference to Steve’s thoughts.
I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been thinking a lot about attention and specifically attention.xml, and while not completely convinced that it’s the panacea that Steve apparently seems to hope it will be, I’m intrigued. I have enough content for a dozen blog posts about it, but haven’t distilled my thinking about any of it to the point that I can even have a chance of putting it in writing. Soon, I hope, and soon after some utilities for my own use in exploring the attention.xml space.
Later: Turns out Joshua is thinking party about attention.xml. Also turns out I knew that. See the comments.
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June 14th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
On the contrary, I’m very familiar with Steve’s work: here’s a post that I wrote about a month ago: Attention is Not Automation. I have not, however, had much chance to articulate any of it to my readers, so I’m walking softly right now…
That said, I’m of the same opinion as you are…I don’t know if another XML format will solve our attention issues or make them worse. I can imagine a scenario in which we’re looking at metadata for most of our day instead of looking at content. In fact, I already do that to a serious extent…
I am, as you obviously are, looking forward to see how all this plays out.
June 14th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
By the way, I just now noticed that you commented on that piece…cool.
June 14th, 2005 at 6:39 pm
Ha!
As you say, I commented on that piece, not to mention that it was actually my introduction to Bokardo. I suspect I discovered it through my attention.xml Feedster search feed (or Pubsub, or Technorati).
That shows you how much I need an attention solution of some kind. Or just to pay better attention.
June 14th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
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