“Crisis” in this case means “Read my damn blog”
Is there an attention crisis? Fred the VC thinks so:
I am way past the point of saturation and I keep adding feeds. At this point, I have over 100 feeds subscribed to in various readers. And I have frankly stopped paying attention to most of them.
Pussy. I read over 200 feeds a day. The trick is to not have a social life.
Om Malik is overwhelmed as well:
In reality, any blogger worth his opinion should be striving for attention. Attention, that is becoming harder to get and retain. I have been chanting the Less is More mantra in recent times, trying to restrict the # of posts, and focus on saying something that gets your attention. So is there an alternate model? I don’t have the answer, but do you?
Does Wikipedia’s long tail suffer from lack of attention? David Weinberger isn’t sure. Does someone have a damn answer?
Aha! Kevin Burton resents the Britney Spears problem of Memeorandum. Conveniently, his new tool solves it! By providing you more posts others recommend!
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on November 11, 2005 at 5:26 pm Pito Salas wrote:
I am even getting overloaded with all these articles about information overload. IMHO aggregators need better tools to help the user filter and sort and prioritize and clean up their feeds - I say tools, because I don’t think any kind of automagic interpretation of semantic information and behavior is ever going to work, but better, more powerful tools for the power user are what we need…See http://www.blogbridge.com/archives/2005/11/the_addictive_p.php