We need technological innovations. For example, we...

We need technological innovations. For example, we need tools that allow people to more easily contextualize relevant content regardless of where they are and what they are doing, and we need tools that allow people to slice and dice content so as to not reach information overload. This is not simply about aggregating or curating content to create personalized destination sites. Frankly, I don’t think this will work. Instead, the tools that consumers need are those that allow them to get in flow, that allow them to live inside information structures wherever they are and whatever they’re doing. They need tools that allow them to easily grab what they want and to stay peripherally aware without feeling overwhelmed.

Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Like to think about this like a runner’s high. I believe you get a runners high by running in a very similar motion for a certain set of time. Eg. 30 minutes. If I can run for a certain period of time under the same structure I will, without fail, enter into runner’s high.

How can you achieve a similar flow with information and create a behavior that creates that outcome?

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This is a great one too. It’s definitely not “about aggregating or curating content to create personalized destination sites”. Destination sites will be far and few in-between in 2-3 years. I’ve been trying hard to imagine how a blended push/pull of content will work. Crack that nut and you’re the next Facebook <- Google <- eBay <- Amazon

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