Interesting documents

Starting points

• wikipedia.org/Attention_economy
• ...

Web 2.0 (Blog posts, podcasts and/or Interviews, ...)

• The attention company's blog

  • Note: John Beck, one of the author of the book the "Attention Economy" works in this company

• TouchStone company's blog

  • Note: TouchStone? is the company behind OPML

• KnowledgeForward: Attention Management

  • the blog postings of Craig Roth on attention management

Blog postings

• Why We Don't Care About Information Overload

  • Thomas Davenport, December 8, 2009

• Attention economics

  • Jon Udell's Weblog, October 19, 2005

• Emily Chang - My Data Stream

  • February 19, 2007
  • After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about?

• The Attention Economy: An Overview

  • Written by Alex Iskold / March 01, 2007

• My Attention Management System Conceptual Architecture

  • Craig Roth, December 22, 2006

Articles

• Is The Attention Economy The New Currency?

  • May 21, 2009 by Ron Callari

• In Defense of Distraction

  • By Sam Anderson Published May 17, 2009, New York magazine
  • Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry?, and the benefits of overstimulation.

• Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media

  • by Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb, April 16, 2008

• How Corporate Leaders Can Help their Companies Manage the Scarcest Resource of All: Attention

  • by John C. Beck and Thomas H. Davenport, Accenture Point of View, Auguste 2001
  • For several years we have been investigating how the boom of information technology—and the concomitant “info glut”—has affected corporate leadership. Our research has convinced us that attention is the scarce resource in today’s economy and that it can be managed.
  • Since attention management now plays such a critical role in a company’s success, corporate leaders must take on the responsibility of helping themselves and the people in their organization learn how to manage attention.

• Getting the Attention you need

  • by John C. Beck and Thomas H. Davenport, Harvard Business Review, September-October 2000

Articles (academic)

• Improving group attention: An experiment with synchronous brainstorming.

  • António Ferreira, Pedro Antunes, Valeria Herskovic (2010). Group Decision and Negotiation.

• On Managing Users' Attention in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations

  • Apostolou, D., S. Karapiperis, N. Stojanovic (2008);
  • in G. A. Tsihrintzis et al. (Eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, SCI 142, Springer, pp. 239-248, 2008

• Popularity, novelty and attention

  • Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman, January 23, 2008

• Enterprise Attention Management System

  • Anicic, D., N. Stojanovic, and D. Apostolou (2008)
  • in M. Hepp, N. Stojanovic, K. Hinkelmann, D. Karagiannis, and R. Klein (Eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM 2008) in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) Tenerife, Spain, June 2, 2008

• Comparative Advantage and Efficient Advertising in the Attention Economy

  • Bernardo A. Huberman and Fang Wu, HP Information Dynamics Lab, January 9, 2007
  • Comparative advantage in the attention economy can be used to maximize the revenues a company gets from advertising.

• Surcharge informationnelle, urgence et TIC. L’effet temporel des technologies de l’information

  • ISAAC Henri, KALIKA M., CAMPOY E., 2007, Management & Avenir, Numéro(s) 13, Page(s) 153-172

• Webster A.S., Vassileva J. (2006)

  • Visualizing Personal Relations in Online Communities
  • in Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Dublin, Ireland, June 21-23, 2006, Springer LNCS 4018, 223-233.
  • It includes a discussion about how you see other people and how they see you.

• Resources attentionnelles et processus de création de connaissances;

  • Belmondo, Cecile (2006); Invited chapter in the book Gestion de la connaissance, Capital Immatériel et Performance Ahmed Bounfour Editor, L'Harmattan
  • see also this paper available online from Cecile Belmondo.

• The structuring of organizational attention and the enactment of economic adversity : a reconciliation of theories of failure-induced change and threat-rigidity

  • by Ocasio, William, Working paper (Sloan School of Management); 3577-93.
  • This paper presents a theoretical examination of how organizational attention structures enact economic adversity. The theory explicitly links the cognitive psychology that underlies risk-seeking behavior and threat-rigidity with the social groupings and cultural logic that structure thinking and decisionmaking in organizations.
  • Ocasio, W. (1997); Strategic Management Journal 18: 187-206.

• Sharon Gifford (1997)

  • Limited attention and the role of the venture capitalist
  • Journal of Business Venturing; Volume 12, Issue 6 , November 1997, Pages 459-482
  • The analysis of this research deals with the incentives of the VC who has limited attention to be allocated between improving current ventures and evaluating new ventures for possible funding.

• The Attention Economy and the Net

  • by Michael H. Goldhaber, First Monday Vol.2 No.4 - April 7th. 1997

Books

• RAPT

  • Attention and the Focused Life
  • By Winifred Gallagher, Penguin Press. 244 pp, 2009
  • Don't check your e-mail; stop Twittering, browsing, Facebooking, eating, drinking, listening to music and watching the children. Take seriously, if just for a few minutes, what Winifred Gallagher describes as the grand unifying theory of psychology: Your life is the sum of what you focus on.

• The Emerging Attention Economy

  • Michael H. Goldhaber, 2007 ?

• The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information

  • by Richard A. Lanham, 2006
  • In this exploration of the changing economics of our information-based world, Lanham, professor emeritus of English at UCLA and author of The Electronic Word, proposes the problem with the information economy is "information doesn't seem in short supply. Precisely the opposite. We're drowning in it." Lanham posits that as society moves from a world defined by "stuff" to one defined by "fluff," people are increasingly in need of filters to weed through the information glut.

• The Attention Economy

  • by Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck, 2001
  • An knowledge management and organizational perspective of the concept of attention

• Attention (Studies in Cognition)

  • by Harold Pashler, 1998

People & Organizations

People

• John C. Beck,
• Thomas H. Davenport
• Michael H. Goldhaber

• William Ocasio

  • organizational attention

• Bernardo A. Huberman

  • social attention

Associations

• AttentionTrust

  • a non profit organization dedicated to promoting the basic rights of attention data (i.e. any records reflecting what they have paid attention to).

Projects and Systems

Projects

• AtGentive

  • Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learniers.

• SAKE

  • SAKE - Semantic-enabled Agile Knowledge-based eGovernment (IST 027128)

• A-CSCW

  • The main objective of this project is to study how technology may positively influence group attention in the collaborative context.
• ...

Tools

• AttentionScape (Thomas Davenport)

  • It assesses how people and organizations allocate their attention

Miscellaneous

• 37signals

• Attent with Serios

  • Attent with Serios is an enterprise productivity application inspired by multiplayer online games. It tackles the problem of information overload in corporate email using psychological and economic principles from successful games. Attent creates a synthetic economy with a currency (Serios) that enables users to attach value to an outgoing email to signal importance. It gives recipients the ability to prioritize messages and a reserve of currency that they can use to signal importance of their messages to others. Attent also provides a variety of tools that enable everyone to track and analyze communication patterns and information exchanges in the enterprise.

Standards and formats

• Attention.XML

  • Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source (see XOXOSampleCode) that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.

• APML

  • Attention Profiling Markup Language
  • AMPL is an open standard that encapsulates a summary of your interests - accross devices and profiles - in a simple portable way.
  • APML will allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers.The idea is to boil down all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – to a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests.