The Looming Attention Crisis

Speaking of virtual societies and forums, here is an interesting claim that we are saturating ourselves with on-line feeds, which leads to poverty of attention and forces us to dump old feeds for new. Here robotnik writes that the gaming blogoshpere is like zillion of ego-based islands, and more surfacing every day. Like him, I'd love keeping tabs on all the things that are going on - but simply can't.

It was with that thought that I wandered why open this blog to begin with. The world doesn't need another theory blog, I thought; if I have an idea, I can always post it to some forum. The problem was, however, that in the Archipelago of ego-islands, our natives speak a different tongue. It is a most disturbing thing: there are amazing ideas floating around the dozen or so really talented people I know that write in the phorums, and there are amazing things going on in the indie scene for years, but like VC writes, we have only so much RAM - and my friends' times goes towards playing, reading and writing in Hebrew.

What was needed, I thought, was not another blog, but an aggregator of sorts, a very specific one. A blog that would collect what's going on a series of small, Hebrew-speaking islands, and likewise serve to bring ideas from the Indie scene over to the Hebrew phorums and people. Even if not as successful as I hope it to be, it would at least serve to be interesting.