An example of constant partial attention

I don’t recall where I first heard this term, but this a good comical example of “constant partial attention.”

Zits
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

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Building a super forum: Director’s Cut + Extra Footage

So, here is the ‘Director’s Cut’ of how to build a super forum. For those who pay attention to titles you realize I’m missing Episodes 1, 2 and 3, but be assured that will be corrected in the future. Like any good Director in the special features on a DVD it’s time to [...]

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E-mail is boring…

That’s what my one student-for-life told me a few days ago.
I suppose Steve is an example for me of a friend who completely grew up submerged in online culture. I tutored him throughout his elementary school days and now he is smack in the middle of high school. My first memories of computers [...]

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Building a super forum: Episode 4

Bookmarks were great for everyone until the inevitable happened; the price of computers went down, every student got a laptop and before you knew it your day consisted of working on one, two and maybe even three computers. It’s a real hardship for tech junkies, I know.
I looked around a while for solutions to [...]

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Are you satisfied?

Getsatisfaction is a community based website that is based on representatives of companies and consumers coming together in a constructive Internet space to share ideas and problems. It seems limited in company participation at this time, but has the potential to be quite powerful to give consumers a voice.
Is Getsatisfaction worth our time?
Once registered on [...]

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Making a useful ’super forum’

Things are getting very interesting in the Web PR world. With all the work I’ve done in Computer Science and Information Technology along with my personal use of different Windows gadgets and Linux, using Internet tools for public relations purposes just feels natural.
So far Melanie McBride has shown our Centennial class a number of [...]

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Are the Gen Ys causing a ruckus?

I wandered upon an article by Paul Brent at Workopolis which caught my interest. It seems I’m labelled a Gen Y individual born after 1980. My fellow Gen Ys are changing the work place with their work style. The way we use the Internet and have developed our own social trends are really [...]

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