Es Tea Double Eye

I found this article on UX Magazine very interesting. It is about the flow of information and how it changed from broadcasting to networked.

Broadcast media structures take one critical thing for granted: attention. There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity, even though that was never true in the first place.

It also shed some light on how information flows in a networked environment. We all know that when we tweet, our tweet isn’t necessarily seen by all our followers. Similarly, we don’t sit and watch our Twitter stream day in and day out to catch up on all thats being said. That would have been a broadcasting model. In a networking environment we decide what can have our attention and what can’t. Very tricky…

Read it. It is well worth it! Streams of Content, Limited Attention