… and the money that goes with it. Clay Shirky delivered an excellent talk at the recent Web 2.0 conference, covering topics from his new book ‘Here Comes Everybody’: In case you didn’t just sit through the 15 minute video, one of his arguments centres around television. When people wonder how we find the time [...]
There is a great article on Poynteronline – The Myth of Short Attention Spans – describing research into reader behaviour. The dramatic growth in available information on the web, through tools such as blogging, wikis and pod-/web-casting has generated lots of debate around the demand for our one limited resource – attention. Lots of effort [...]
Last week the New Scientist magazine had an article about productivity: ‘Got a minute?‘ (subscription required to read full article online). It’s a good article highlighting the challenges with working in the face of constant interruptions, and includes the findings from various investigations, such as: Information workers, on average, get just three sustained minutes ofwork [...]
Interesting article in New Scientist Magazine (subscription required). Jane Raymond, consumer psychologist at the University of Wales, Bangor, has been studying how to grab your attention and discovered a new effect that advertisers have yet to accomodate. Raymond was conducting research in visual processing during the 1990s and discovered a quirk in the brain’s attention [...]
