Comments on: Why Short Attention Spans on the Internet Are a Good Thing http://www.elliotswan.com/2008/06/16/short-attention-spans/ designs stuff and writes code. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:02:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Elliot Swan http://www.elliotswan.com/2008/06/16/short-attention-spans/comment-page-1/#comment-123034 Elliot Swan Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:02:19 +0000 http://www.elliotswan.com/?p=416#comment-123034 Well, I think skimming and social media sites like Digg, Reddit, etc., are all ways of getting through the loads of information and finding what's the best use of one's time. I'd say that raises standards to a point--if the headlines don't look interesting enough, it gets tossed in a pile. If it doesn't get enough votes, you don't read it. Well, I think skimming and social media sites like Digg, Reddit, etc., are all ways of getting through the loads of information and finding what’s the best use of one’s time. I’d say that raises standards to a point–if the headlines don’t look interesting enough, it gets tossed in a pile. If it doesn’t get enough votes, you don’t read it.

]]> By: Nils Geylen http://www.elliotswan.com/2008/06/16/short-attention-spans/comment-page-1/#comment-123023 Nils Geylen Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:50:55 +0000 http://www.elliotswan.com/?p=416#comment-123023 This is the post I maybe should have written today — I wrote another one, panicky and ill-at-ease over the information overload we do all face at times. I'm not sure that the vast amount of information (data?) we're faced with on the internet today has raised our standards per se. Has it? But maybe we've been thrown back to a more meticulous approach to what we're being served, a more thought-out way of dealing with the possibilities. In the end, you are right: this is not a problem, and it's not a bad thing to sit back, relax and realize we cannot possibly take it all in — and not go nuts over it. This is the post I maybe should have written today — I wrote another one, panicky and ill-at-ease over the information overload we do all face at times.

I’m not sure that the vast amount of information (data?) we’re faced with on the internet today has raised our standards per se. Has it? But maybe we’ve been thrown back to a more meticulous approach to what we’re being served, a more thought-out way of dealing with the possibilities.

In the end, you are right: this is not a problem, and it’s not a bad thing to sit back, relax and realize we cannot possibly take it all in — and not go nuts over it.

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