Attention Crash
Mar 30th, 2008 by Chris Cooney
Steve Rubel gives a name to something I’ve been feeling in my gut for a few months now. In his post Attention Crash he ties the looming Web 2.0 financial downturn to a very human reaction to the information deluge the social networking has unleashed.
We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are capable as humans of managing.
The post is nearly a year old, so I guess Steve is a bit more in tune with this than my own “gut”.
He goes on to quote Marc Andreessen as saying basically the bursting of the Web 2.0 bubble won’t be all that bad. But, maybe the recent news about the downturn in Google’s AdWords revenue and Marc’s own reference to the decline of newspaper advertising will prove otherwise.
