Thoughts on Attention
Alex Barnett made a list with 20 thoughts relating Attention. A quick summary is that he thinks Attention data is much more than just clickstreams (check), it has to be an online/portable/shareable/secure service (check), there will be multiple, competing and overlapping Attention data formats (too bad, but I do think this will also be true). And at nr20 he gives some examples of Attention data: Tagclouds, wishlists, reading lists and book catalogs, blogrolls, RSS / OPML lists, contacts, social networks and buddy lists, photo collections and photostream, playlists and music collections, bookmarks, blogs, game lists, community memberships, calendar entries, video collections and lists, favourite places and social guides, subscriptions lists.
Great that he put some effort in trying to describe what is needed for an attention data service. But I would also like to know which logic should be used to store Attention data. What do you want to store? As I wrote before (attention.xml), I think all feeds and posts that you read should be tracked. For each post or feed the software should track how much time you spend on it, the last time you checked it and an optional rating of the information. Based on this it should be possible to advice what to read and where you should spend your time on?
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