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A collection of 21 posts

February 4, 2019

The World Record Egg: hacking attention for mental health?

We now know who was behind the World Record Egg - and what they plan on doing with the account. But what does this tell us about today's attention economy?

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Featured – January 28, 2019

Rise of the Memeocracy — and its cost

We reward the ability to win attention with fame, validation and money. But that comes with a psychological price.

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June 12, 2018

Camping, burnout and a digital diet: exploring slow social media

A week's digital disconnection has left me refreshed, but lacking enthusiasm for reconnecting on social media. Here's what I'm going to do about it.

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January 8, 2018

Facebook is the out-of-town supermarket of the web, so let's learn to browse local

Jason Kottke on why Facebook won: […] using Facebook instead of just bookmarks is compelling in the same way that shopping at Walmart instead of small-town shops was in the 80s. We blame Walmart for decimating small businesses, but ultimately, small…

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December 15, 2017

Your attention is your most precious resource: conserve it

This is a really good guide to retaking control of your attention: The first step for successful self-defence is avoidance. Try to avoid as many dangerous situations as possible. In this context this would mean, stay away from every distraction,…

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December 11, 2017

Digital media brands are failing for the same reason as old media brands: they don't understand the attention economy

The last few weeks have made it plain that digital media is stumbling. Buzzfeed UK is cutting back – hard. Mashable has been flogged off a what is a knock-down price compared to its valuation a few years ago, and is…

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April 23, 2016

The problem with sharable content - in graphics

I drew a bunch of dots to explain why social media is broken I missed this back in January when it was first published, but it’s so worth your time: The savviest digital media companies know they’re in…

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March 30, 2016

The Times reinvents editions for the digital age

The big news is out. The Times, already an outlier amongst UK newspapers in having a hard paywall, is changing its model again. Not the paywall – this is not a retreat from paid as its stablemate The Sun has done.…

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