Not Attention, but Gestures!
Attention is so 5 minutes ago, what we need are ‘Gestures’! I’ve just read an interesting post on zdnet.com (from Steve Gillmor) about GestureBank (via fredscapes.nl). The article is dated a while back but to be sincere I never heard of it before. Steve writes about the fact that current information is created in a broadcast, an attention-seeking environment, but Gesture-triggered data is generated as a result of multiple proferred contracts with users. So the future is too predict what people would like to read based on Gestures:
Attention to something is valuable, but in a world of too much information divided by the time to consume a portion of it, signalling a lack of attention is more valuable. By that construct, gestures of inattention will fetch a greater price, and purveyors of gestures of indirection or redirection will gain inordinate value as compared to domain experts. Deriving GestureRank is therefore a function not only of who the gesturer is, but what is the nature (or type) of the gesture, and who or what group or domain it is directed toward.
Justplain.org writes that the whole idea is build arround the concept that there is too much information (good information), that we have too litle time to consume all this information but that we also don’t want to mis any relevant information. So what we want is relevant personalized data. The gesturebank could offer this ans aims to be a open, transparent and trusted pool of metadata. Only those who feed this pool (i.e. with the data from the Attention recorder) will be able to gain from it…
All very interesting stuff I must say and next to that Steve Gilmor announced that he resigned from the board of Attention Trust and he will be doing alot more with GestureBank. More info soon I think…
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