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I work in social media strategy and blog about attention and the researchers that study it over here. This is a personal Tumblr that contains some photo and quotation-blogging about social media and science.
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People are selfish, and will act selfishly to gain what they can.
Although this certainly trades as common sense, there is nothing about this...
I actually have a legit question rather than a pithy one-liner about Bitcoins (and let me tell you, it’s really hard...
The light bulb is out.
The blackened bulb in the lamp on my bedside dresser went unchanged for a week, and when I opened my eyes this morning it was the first...
Cefte posted:
Attention Deficit Disorder
The afternoon sun angled through a tear in the tent. Ma Bao-Zhi grunted, then shifted his face towards the...

Facebook went public a week and a half ago. The IPO, thought by many to be the grandaddy of them all instead was a dud, as the...
“My Klout score is at 45.76 now. Maybe I jumped up a point because I unfollowed 100+ accounts on Twitter. :P”
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It’s a technology fit for It-silk Perlman. Japanese scientists have succeeded in harvesting spider silk for violin strings. Could they be...
Notice I said people. With only two or three exceptions, I’m entirely following personal blogs. I used to follow a bunch of science, astronomy, and...
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My social media mantra is getting some prime-time on the chalkboard at work. (Taken with Instagram at Tabaret Hall | Pavillon Tabaret - uOttawa)
Jonah Goodhart from Moat talks about the attention economy and how we can look past clicks to instead measure the attention an ad receives using eye-tracking technology.
“In reality, the maximal size of audiences that a company can handle depends on two factors: the available media and the resources attributed to the management of [the] receiver[-sender] relationship. Obviously, new media have dramatically changed the range of attention-seeking senders.”
“… the length or the radius of some neighbourhood around a sender cannot characterize the size of an audience.”
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