Comments on: Open publishing - Cory Doctorow http://strange.corante.com/2007/02/19/open-publishing-cory-doctorow Picking out patterns in the chaos Wed, 16 May 2012 21:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Suw http://strange.corante.com/2007/02/19/open-publishing-cory-doctorow#comment-2377 Suw Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:07:30 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/02/19/open-publishing-cory-doctorow#comment-2377 We're living in an age of abundance of things to do, read, listen to, or watch, but yes, we're very short of time and attention. It's an attention economy now, and not everyone makes the cut. So it goes. We really need help sorting through everything, but rather than rehash my thoughts about that topic here, I'll suggest you read this post instead and hope it answers a few questions: http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/08/the_democratisation_of_everything_and_the_curators_who_will_save_our_collective_ass.php We’re living in an age of abundance of things to do, read, listen to, or watch, but yes, we’re very short of time and attention. It’s an attention economy now, and not everyone makes the cut. So it goes.

We really need help sorting through everything, but rather than rehash my thoughts about that topic here, I’ll suggest you read this post instead and hope it answers a few questions:

http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/08/the_democratisation_of_everything_and_the_curators_who_will_save_our_collective_ass.php

]]> By: Chris Meade http://strange.corante.com/2007/02/19/open-publishing-cory-doctorow#comment-2376 Chris Meade Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:43:23 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/02/19/open-publishing-cory-doctorow#comment-2376 I subscribed to Cory's novel but then quickly found myself deleting unread chunks in the daily battle to cut down the inbox. Not the age of abundance but of attention - everything is available but theres so little time to look at all that stuff. So.. we fall back on safe recommenders - word of mouth hits, highly hyped titles... I am thrilled by the potential to mix media in fictions viewed on an attractive ereader, but still puzzle over how to create a happy readership who don't feel bombarded and baffled by digitalstuff flying at them from all corners. Do you share that concern and whats to be done?! I subscribed to Cory’s novel but then quickly found myself deleting unread chunks in the daily battle to cut down the inbox. Not the age of abundance but of attention - everything is available but theres so little time to look at all that stuff.
So.. we fall back on safe recommenders - word of mouth hits, highly hyped titles…
I am thrilled by the potential to mix media in fictions viewed on an attractive ereader, but still puzzle over how to create a happy readership who don’t feel bombarded and baffled by digitalstuff flying at them from all corners. Do you share that concern and whats to be done?!

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