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Cynthia Cunningham

The Attention Economy: An Overview - 0 views

  • Because of this information explosion, we no longer read - we skim. The news that used to last a day now lasts just a few hours, simply because we need to pay attention to the new news. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to juggle all the news sources and keep on top of things. Which brings us to the law of information, stated first by Herbert Simon: the rapid growth of information
  • causes scarcity of attention.
  • It is also a big problem for news sites, blogs, search engines and online retailers. Our scarcity of attention hurts their economics.
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  • What is the likelihood that you leave if you see an irrelevant headline? High.
  • The idea behind the Attention Economy is to create a marketplace where consumers are happy, because if they are shown relevant information
  • For example news feeds illustrate the point well, since they ask for consumers attention in exchange for the opportunity to show him/her advertising. The Search engines are similar in that respect, because they show ads in exchange for helping users find answers online.
  • It is important to realize that the key ingredient in the attention game is relevancy.
  • So the question is: how do you show the user relevant content? This is a complex problem that can be partially addressed by recommendation engines.
  • Another key ingredient of the Attention Economy is privacy.
  • The challenge is not just to protect consumers information, the challenge is to put the user in control of her information.
  • AttentionTrust succeeded in defining a simple, elegant, yet encompassing set of principles that define the rules of the game, by outlining the basic consumer rights in the AttentionEconomy: Property: You own your attention and can store it wherever you wish. You have CONTROL. Mobility: You can securely move your attention wherever you want, whenever you want to. You have the ability to TRANSFER your attention. Economy: You can pay attention to whomever you wish and receive value in return. Your attention has WORTH. Transparency: You can see exactly how your attention is being used.
  • So these seemingly simple rules ensure that participants transact fairly and that businesses do not monopolize users information
  • Ideally, a body of standards and protocols should be the technological foundation of the Attention Economy. Since these are early days of the conversation about attention, such standards do not yet exist. Here is an outline of what the Attention Architecture will look like (there is a detailed post on the topic from last year on my personal blog):
  • So from a technical point of view, the key to facilitating the attention marketplace is in decoupling of attention capturing, attention storage and attention recording services.
  • Silos: User information needs to be freed from proprietary silos Round Table: The industry needs to create a round table, to enable organizations to govern both the business and technical aspects of the attention economy (think Java Community Process). Education: People need to be educated about the value of their attention and the principles of attention economy. Avoiding privacy concerns will not work, instead they need to be tackled head on.
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    Attention Economy Primer
Ivan Travkin

MOOCs, knowledge and the digital economy - a research project » Dave's Educat... - 3 views

  • First paragraph – The MOOC Model for Digital Practice responds to the “Building Digital Skills for Tomorrow” section of the consultation paper Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage: Strategies for Sustainable Prosperity by synthesizing the current state of knowledge about Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). It argues that building and sustaining prosperity through Canada’s current digital strengths depends on a digital ecosystem that embraces both infrastructure and the collaborative social networks enabled by that infrastructure. Prosperity in this context requires a citizenry with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to turn these factors towards creating wealth. By exploring the relationship of MOOCs to the digital economy in general and their potential roles to prepare citizens for participation in that digital economy in particular, it illustrates one particularly Canadian model of how these needs may be addressed.
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    Sometime in June Sandy McAuley, Bonnie Stewart, George Siemens and I decided to apply to SSHRC for funding for researching the place of MOOCs in the digital economy. We did a little work creating videos to allow people to understand what was going on in a MOOC and decide if it was something they might want to do.
romandavis112

Professional development skills Impact Comparative Political Economy - 0 views

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    A rising number of professionals travel across national boundaries via international migration. The exchange of human capital occurs through multinational business activities and outsourcing. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the growing numerical significance of professionals. As a result, we foresee the rise of the skills debate. It focuses on how investing in professional development skills impacts comparative political economy. Professional development skills have a significant impact on the political economy of nations. But to understand the relationship between professional development skills and comparative political economy, it is important to know about comparative political economy.
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Obama says he's ready to work with Republicans to avoid "fiscal cliff" ~ GLOBAL NEWS - 0 views

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    Obama is battling Republican lawmakers over how to avoid the combination of sharp tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in early next year that could plunge the economy back into recession.
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    During economy downturn, most of the working class people fall into financial difficulties. Rising monthly expenditure and stagnant monthly income let you face the worst financial time ever.
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IJEDICT Volume 8, Issue 2, is out | Studying Teaching and Learning | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    IJEDICT Volume 8, Issue 2 is published at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewissue.php   The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content. It aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., in developing economies (especially small states).
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Çek yasası ile ilgili haberler | Çek Mağdurları - 0 views

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    Karşılıksız çek sorunları hala çözülemedi, yaşanan bunca Adaletsizlik ve Hukuksuzluğa rağmen çek yasası çıkmadığı gibi, iktidar partisi bir yıl süreyle erteleme işini bile becerememiş gözüküyor. Adalet Bakanı Sadullah Ergin'in bu soruna yaklaşım tarzınız biliyoruz ve gerek basında gerekse TBMM konuşmalarında gayet net ifadeyle " Çek Mağdurlarının sorunu bizim sorunumuzdur, nasip olur en yakın bir zamanda müjde veririz demiştir. Ekonomiden sorumlu Devlet Bakanı ve Başbakan Yardımcısı Sayın Ali Babacan, çek yasası ile ilgili olarak basına yaptığı açıklamalarda, kısa ve öz kelimelerle Karşılıksız Çek hapsinin hem Evrensel hukuk kurallarına, hemde Ticari yaşam kurallarına aykırılığına değinerek kesin ve net şekilde görüşünü belirtmiştir.
Krishonnati Yojana

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