Interesting article in today’s Wash Po about how more and more news sites are using consumer voting to select the mix of content on the site.

We always think the task of communication is to stream a lot of information at people. Nah, you’ve got to get a scarce commodity from them first: attention. To do attention-getting effectively you’ve got to understand a lot about what does and does not fit people’s attention profile. This IT Conversation is about getting attention data and the value of ...

The Washington Post is doing a series of online interviews this week with future-oriented authors. For instance, they’re interviewing Alvin and Heidi Toffler this morning (Noon ET) about their new book, Revolutionary Wealth. Here’s the link for more information.

Last week I got an e-mail from MITWorld listing a couple of videos of lectures by faculty members. I listened to one by Clyde Prestowitz titled The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global Weight. He has published a book with the same title. If you liked Friedman’s  The World ...