Attention

Posted by wendyg in Uncategorized at March 26th, 2007

Another example of data you might expose to the world comes from Attention Trust (its owner, Seth Goldstein, is talking about it now). This an effort to help people regain control of their own clickstreams - but at the same time they can share them with others, another example of the stuff I posted about last night.

For every explicit video you make about yourself, he’s saying right now, you generate a zillion implicit data points - metadata around yourself that for years companies have been able to take advantage of but you have not. This is therefore an attempt to make visible the data we throw off without realizing it. An interesting idea for making the impact of our using government eservices more transparent?

wg

One Response to “Attention”

  1. W Says:

    This looks a complementary service to garlik - an automated privacy-implcations awareness service. Ive applied for a garlik account. Just being processed; will report what it’s like.

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