Comments on: On Blogs, Multi-Tasking and Continuous Partial Attention http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:17:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: sogrady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-549 sogrady Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:18:02 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=372#comment-549 Manas: perhaps, but not so much in my case. the problem is quite the opposite for me. yes, i have things that are boring - expenses, etc - but for the most part blogs, email, IM, etc are all things that i actually like doing. the problem arises when there are simply too many things i like doing to do them all successfully. it's overload, plain and simple. Manas: perhaps, but not so much in my case. the problem is quite the opposite for me. yes, i have things that are boring - expenses, etc - but for the most part blogs, email, IM, etc are all things that i actually like doing. the problem arises when there are simply too many things i like doing to do them all successfully. it’s overload, plain and simple.

]]> By: Manas Garg http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Manas Garg Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:41:36 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=372#comment-548 I feel this problem of Continuous partial attention is because the core work that we are doing (and the one that requires our continuous attention) is not so interesting to us. We are kind of forcing ourselves to do it (in very subtle ways). Sometime back, I had written about how our right hemisphere makes us do things that our left hemisphere has reasoned are wrong. The post can be found here: http://manasgarg.blogspot.com/2005/03/mind-trick-2-right-hemisphere-wins.html The situation that I have used as the backdrop is different but it is the same mind trick that is doing the magic. I feel this problem of Continuous partial attention is because the core work that we are doing (and the one that requires our continuous attention) is not so interesting to us. We are kind of forcing ourselves to do it (in very subtle ways). Sometime back, I had written about how our right hemisphere makes us do things that our left hemisphere has reasoned are wrong. The post can be found here:

http://manasgarg.blogspot.com/2005/03/mind-trick-2-right-hemisphere-wins.html

The situation that I have used as the backdrop is different but it is the same mind trick that is doing the magic.

]]> By: Matt http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Matt Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:34:59 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=372#comment-547 I've been using del.icio.us for my 'To-read' folder. There definitly is too much stuff out there! I’ve been using del.icio.us for my ‘To-read’ folder.

There definitly is too much stuff out there!

]]> By: sogrady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-546 sogrady Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:20:41 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=372#comment-546 wow, i hope the message that people took away wasn't that i don't want you to keep contributing comments and the like. that's what keeps this place interesting. anyhow, i've downloaded the PDF into my "To Read" folder - seriously, i have one, and yes, things are that bad ;) but i find the possibilities of volatile information processing intriguing, and doubtless there's a business - for the wall st types anyhow - to be built there. wow, i hope the message that people took away wasn’t that i don’t want you to keep contributing comments and the like. that’s what keeps this place interesting.

anyhow, i’ve downloaded the PDF into my “To Read” folder - seriously, i have one, and yes, things are that bad ;)
but i find the possibilities of volatile information processing intriguing, and doubtless there’s a business - for the wall st types anyhow - to be built there.

]]> By: Matt http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/24/on-blogs-multi-tasking-and-continuous-partial-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Matt Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:16:26 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=372#comment-545 Sorry to add yet another piece to your evidently loaded plate, but I think that you might be interested in reading this link about a 'Physics of information'. The author says a lot that applies to this situation, liuke that the most interesting information is the stuff that is changing rapidly (high velocity, or high acceleration), etc. Perhaps one day, this kind of idea can be attached to an RSS feedreader, taking lots of feeds and merging them into one feed of importance. http://www.changethis.com/7.PhysicsOfIdeas Sorry to add yet another piece to your evidently loaded plate, but I think that you might be interested in reading this link about a ‘Physics of information’. The author says a lot that applies to this situation, liuke that the most interesting information is the stuff that is changing rapidly (high velocity, or high acceleration), etc. Perhaps one day, this kind of idea can be attached to an RSS feedreader, taking lots of feeds and merging them into one feed of importance.

http://www.changethis.com/7.PhysicsOfIdeas

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