{"id":130,"date":"2005-12-01T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2005-12-01T20:26:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T20:26:35","slug":"paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a 3-part Steve Gillmor <a href=\"http:\/\/attentiontech.podshow.com\/?p=21\" title=\"AttentionTech podcast\">AttentionTech podcast<\/a> (with Dave Winer phoning in) and probably moved things along a bit further in the <span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">getting it<\/span> dimension for OPML, but I&#8217;m somewhat bothered by the flatfilishness of the examples of attention I keep hearing &#8211;they seem to be stuck in &#8216;what blogs do you read how much&#8217; territory, which makes for a pretty shallow and limited conception of attention, and the model seems to be *to sell attention data.<\/p>\n<p> Attention is much more multifaceted, being both multidimensional and volatile too: from week to week and over months my attention is assigned to many different realms, often interconnected but sometimes quite disjunctive as I pick up and put down various threads, now more focused, now attending to more things more shallowly, now following a specific trail of interconnections. I want to be able to <span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">visualize and analyze that flux<\/span>, and to be able to revisit any of the states of the past with a click. I want the kind of map that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0002007\/2005\/11\/30.html#a1356\" title=\"Dave Pollard implies\">Dave Pollard implies<\/a> (&#8220;your brain&#8217;s memory laid out as a wiki tableau&#8221;). I want that for myself, and I&#8217;d want to be able to export it to somebody else (perhaps in pruned\/edited form). But most of all I want that as a long-haul tool for understanding my own progress in the digital realm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a 3-part Steve Gillmor AttentionTech podcast (with Dave Winer phoning in) and probably moved things along a bit further in the getting it dimension for OPML, but I&#8217;m somewhat bothered by the flatfilishness of the examples of attention I keep hearing &#8211;they seem to be stuck in &#8216;what blogs do you read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}