The cure to information overload is more information.
David Weinberger
Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
feel individuals software
A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.
important
The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters.
community good readers creating left thing
[David Weinberger, veteran of Interleaf and Open Text, is now editor of the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. JOHO and EGR regularly vie to be weirdest, and a small but influential group of readers is beginning to constellate around this cross-site competition. In an attention economy, gonzo is a strange attractor.] The dogs have it right,.. Customers want to take a good long whiff. But companies so lobotomized that they can't speak in a recognizably human voice build sites that smell like death.
competition organization death human voice good attention readers beginning small dogs speak open journal economy strange smell text
I'd rather have an aggregator than a filter - 100 different viewpoints from all over the world.
world
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape
data knowledge
information
Rick [Levine] may believe he's good at multitasking, but I don't believe it. Humans can't multitask - we can't pay attention to two things simultaneously.
life time-management
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