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Why completion matters to digital journalism

There's a psychological impact of completion we ignore at our peril

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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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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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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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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Twitter's Tin Ear - and its social illusion

Twitter has a tin ear This is the nine-zillionth reminder of the reality that new communications technology doesn’t change old realities of human nature, or increase the number of

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Analytics for Journalists: some further reading

I’ve just finished* running a workshop on analytics for journalists at news:rewired this afternoon. Here’s a selection of links I promised the attendees to allow them to

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The value in the magazine bundle

Khoi Vihn, designer and former New York Times staffer, as part of his lukewarm response to the new New York Times magazine: It’s also true that part of my objection owes to the fact that I find the magazine format less than enthralling

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Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism

Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova, curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings blog. Some choice highlights: I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into my existing interests as a

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Your morning attention workout

Did you make it?

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Why the book might be getting shorter

Interesting analysis of how Kindle Singles, and other short ebooks might be the future: The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I remember thinking how a typical business