0918 Blog theme decision, finished reading The Attention Merchants
Today’s To Do:
- Finish The Attention Merchants
- Continue making demo page
🖱️ 09:15 Edited a cute photo combining a girl and an airplane
📖 09:40 Started reading The Attention Merchants Chapter 24
💭 My boss is totally an idiot…
Notes:
Technology doesn’t follow culture so much as culture follows technology. New forms of expression naturally arise from new media, but so do new sensibilities and new behaviors.
This is life now: one constant, never-ending stream of non sequiturs and self-referential garbage that passes in through our eyes and out of our brains at the speed of a touchscreen.
When an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
every sliver of our attention is fair game for commercial exploitation
The past half century has been an age of unprecedented individualism, allowing us to live in all sorts of ways that were not possible before. The power we have been given to construct our attentional lives is an underappreciated example. Even while waiting for the dentist, we have the world at our finger tips: we can check mail, browse our favorite sites, play games, and watch movies, where once we had to content ourselves with a stack of old magazines. But with the new horizon of possibilities has also come the erosion of private life’s perimeter. And so it is a bit of a paradox that in having so thoroughly individualized our attentional lives we should wind up being less ourselves and more in thrall to our various media and devices. Without express consent, most of us have passively opened ourselves up to the commercial exploitation of our attention just about anywhere and anytime. If there is to be some scheme of zoning to stem this sprawl, it will need to be mostly an act of will on the part of the individual.
Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.
👊 13:45 After reading the blog of Bear’s developer, I decided to use this theme to build my own blog.
🪐 13:55 Use DuckDuckGo to find another option — Bear Neo.
💢 15:00 He’s really nasty, and I can’t concentrate on my work.
🖕 My colleague sat behind me to listen to the boss’s nonsense, so I couldn’t read as much as I wanted.
🤔 After I turned on video autoplay on Reddit, I noticed I spent less time there, which made me feel better.
📘 16:50 Finally finished reading The Attention Merchants ★,°:.☆(￣▽￣)/$:.°★*
🖥️ 17:30 Downloaded and started reading Head First HTML5 Programming
⛑️ 17:45 IT Passport practice: accuracy 70% #######—