jonwashburn: Continuous Partial Attention

Continuous Partial Attention

Now that I have officially renamed my ActiveRain blog to something that more matches my state of being, I can start blogging more in line with the way God made me.

I have 9 windows open on my 30" display, I don't have the time - I mean attention span - to write out lengthy well thought out posts.

For about a week or so, I have been experimenting with a service called tumblr.com and I have found the tumblr style of blogging to be much more natural for me.   So I have decided to give that style a go here on my AR blog.  My posts will rarely even qualify as a post as they will not likely meet the 50 word limit; good thing I don't blog for points!

If you wanna see what my first weeks experiment looked like on my tumbl blog, check out linkblog.jonwashburn.com.

Oh and check out the conversation about Continuous Partial Attention 

17 comments • Jonathan Washburn • June 11 2007 06:16PM

Comments

Jonathan...

I like it. One of the other "Big Dogs" was telling me about tumblr.

This is the first chance I've had to check it out.

So...You really are that geeky :)

TLW...ROAR!

Posted by "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago
I've heard about things like this, but never checked it out....great directions....
Posted by Larry Bettag - Cherry Creek Mortgage over 3 years ago
yes, this type of blog is certainly more consistent with you. More ideas come and go out of your head in a week than most people have in a lifetime. At least getting some portion of them captured is a good start.
Posted by Realty Executives Brio over 3 years ago

Jonathan...

I'm back. I have to be honest...I have never heard of <Continuous Partial Attention> ...

I was a bit lost reading the article so I googled CPA.

I put the link in here because I am quite sure I am not the only 'boomer' that has not made her/his way to the CPA :)  

TLW...ROAR!

Posted by "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago

Hi Jonathan-- Thanks for the heads up on that Continuous Partial Attention conversation.  I've been having a lot of real life discussions about partial attention and co-presence recently and I'm glad to see that the topics are getting some additional attention.

Also, I've become a big fan of microblogging since I started using Twitter.  I started a Tumblr blog one after I saw Jeff Turner twitter about his, however I'm not really posting much to it right now.  Basically, I'm just using it to aggregate a few of the feeds (mostly del.icio.us & twiiter) that I generate. 

Posted by Andy Kaufman, East Bay Sales & Investments (Keller Williams Realty) over 3 years ago

Hi TLW,

I think CPA is something that was just made up a couple days ago.  Scoble mentioned it, and Jim Cronin mentioned it in a conference call today.  I definately suffer from it.

And yes, I most truly am that geeky. 

Posted by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp) over 3 years ago

I never caught the twitter bug.  I think to really get the most benefit from it you need to have friends that twitter, and since I am twitter friendless it didn't really work for me. 

That is a smart idea to have it aggregate your feeds.  That would be a cool widget to integrate into AR at some point.   

Posted by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp) over 3 years ago

LOL.

Is this anything like a pingpong ball inside a beachball bouncing down the sand? Shall we call you Ricochet Rabbit from now on? :) I've been saying for years "I have more ideas than time to follow them".

Liked the "Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks" article.

AND! Good luck in the marathon. Always wanted to do one..

Posted by Mark Flanders (Consulting) over 3 years ago
If you are running in the Seafair marathon I will make sure to bring my binoculars out on the boat. Maybe I will be able to spot you laboring by as I tackle my third martini...........haha
Posted by Realty Executives Brio over 3 years ago
3 martinis? Are you on a diet?lol
Posted by Mark Flanders (Consulting) over 3 years ago
The marathon starts at 7am, so I imagine Bob is talking about being on his third martini before lunch.
Posted by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp) over 3 years ago

 

There you go guys. Have FUN :)

 

 

Jonathan. Feel free to delete me. I'm just messing around.

 

Posted by "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago
If this is a subject that you can relate to, I'd recommend checking out Stowe's presentation at Reboot titled Flow: A New Consciousness for a Web of Traffic. 
Posted by Andy Kaufman, East Bay Sales & Investments (Keller Williams Realty) over 3 years ago
Yes, that would be my third 'breakfast martini'..........
Posted by Realty Executives Brio over 3 years ago
Jonathon, you and I must frequent the same nooks and crannies. I mentioned Continuous Partial Attention in the Inman Talk and I've been doing a tumble log for a while now. I love it. Check mine out. JustDugUp.com.
Posted by Jeff Turner (Real Estate Shows) over 3 years ago

Andy,

Thanks for the link to Stowe's video.  Very interesting. "My time is not my own". 

Jeff,

I was listening in on the Inman call and I heard you make a reference to it.  You reference is what reminded me to make this post!  I first saw the reference to it on Scoble's blog eariler this week. 

Posted by Jonathan Washburn (ActiveRain Corp) over 3 years ago

Well...

At least they stopped leaving hot links :)

TLW...ROAR!

Posted by "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.) about 1 year ago

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