DISQUS

They sound like a good bunch of people - bon voyage! ;)

The overhead associated with being constantly distracted is huge. In CPUs, this is called "switching cost" - every time a computer switches between tasks (threads), it has to load stuff out of its memory, load other stuff into its memory, and get going again. This is actually very inefficient.

People work in the same way. We can only hold so much in our heads at one time, and distractions can cause to to start from zero again.

I too am hyperconnected, and I know exactly what you mean about the cold shudder of asking "what now?" if the internet is gone.

Services like twitter only add to the already huge load of incoming (news) data we get.

Its just not sustainable though - every single tweet/rss item can lead to 10 minutes distraction. There are only so many hours in the day (and occasionally we need to sleep/eat/get married, etc.).

I think we're going through an adolescent phase with data - its all so new and shiny and instant, that we cant get enough. But ultimately we'll have to grow up,and start putting strong filters on whats grabbing our attention.

Probably software will come to our rescue here - intelligent agents interrupting as at good moments, with just the (summarized) data we need.
In fact, it has to! We're probably too addicted to wean ourselves off alone ;)

Oops, copy and pasted too quick. http://www.twittervision.com is what I meant.

Not sure if you've covered this one before, but http://www.thebetanews.com/ is quite fun.

Hey there, Nik from retaggr here.

Sorry to hear it wasn't working optimally for you - we've made some speed imprrovments, and more are on the way.

We also have a new option for embedding your Card on your site - a badge that opens when you click it - you'll find it in the Tools section of retaggr.

Thanks - shout if you need help with anything else, and good luck with the open source ;)

I've done exactly this for a project. It isnt ideal in that if you have a live system, and you subsequently need to add controllers, you need to check that *existing* users havent already used that controller name.

Hi!

Just found your blog, and enjoying the content. Hope the conference went well.

All the best.