“There are already many who support the ideas laid out in this Bill of Rights” (from A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web - Open Social Web)
Much of the sense of this Bill of Rights seems directly related to - is almost a subset of - the Principles of Attention as defined by […]

Finally, Steve’s saying something I can both understand and wholeheartedly agree with:
Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Follow the Money
What we need is a little cash register ka-ching sound layered into every click, to remind us that we could use a little piece of that.
I’m still not very concerned with the monetization of attention/gesture for my own […]

Via Alex Barnett, a pointer to LibraryThing.
I walked through the tour and added a book (my catalog), and while there are some pretty cool features I can’t see myself spending the time required to make good use of the tool. Much as it pains me to say, I suppose I’m not enough of a […]

Travelling to South Dakota for a week or so.
If you’re interested, our rough itinerary can be viewed on Windows Live.

No connectivity, no email, no internet. Just family.

My shared feeds
It’s truly gratifying to see the re-launch of the Share Your OPML site. I joined the original SYO site (http://feeds.scripting.com, which now redirects to http://share.opml.org) late in it’s lifetime, after much of its vibrancy had faded, but it was nevertheless a fascinating excercise. At the time I was new to subscriptions […]

Recording Your Attention: Spying on Yourself — J Wynia
J’s put up an attention service for himself, much as I’ve done. He has, however, taken the time to give a basic run-down of the very simple procedure for getting one running.
I only have 1 thing to add to J’s list of 14 steps to recording […]

Alex Barnett:The middleman won’t go away, he’ll just move.
referencing this by Matt Terenzio (who’s been active in the OPML Editor community recently as well)
Good points from both Matt and Alex in this interchange.
I see Matt’s point that eventually we’re going to be pushing all of this stuff out to the edges and that connections between […]

Alex Barnett, always thinking about attention issues (I know how that is, Alex) has posted 20 thoughts on Attention. The most important is #4:
“From the customer’s perspective, the future value of Attention data does not lie in its monetization potential. At best this will turn out to be few dollars per year per […]

Seth Godin:

“Five thousand years ago, every human was a hunter. If you were hungry, you got a rock or a stick and you went hunting.
The problem was that all of the animals were either dead or really good at hiding.”

One could argue that the problem wasn’t the change in the animals, but instead in the […]

I don’t know much about browser proxy-ing technology (like the kind that anonymizes your data whilst you browse, a la anonymouse and others), but a few weeks ago when I was in class I could have used an attention proxy.
I had a fair amount of time to browse the ‘net while in class, but unfortunately […]