Web Gardens and Digital Streams

The Garden and the Stream as Metaphors for WWW > Additional Support/Evidence > Web Gardens and Streams Elaborated
Web Gardens are contextualized, interconnected spaces online like Wikipedia. Digital Streams are serialized events that flow like Twitter or Facebook feeds.

 FLOW

The FLOW State > Example/Illustration > Video Games Improve Attention
 

 Seeing, Observing, and Mindfulness

Childhood is Naturally Mindful > Example/Illustration > Seeing VS Observing
Most of us sleepwalk through life having lost our childhood sense of attention, Sherlock Holmes explains the difference between just seeing the world and observing it.

 Perspectives on Online Attention

Attention is the Fundamental Literacy > Comparison > Smaller Fragments of Information Command Attention
Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold discuss managing their attention spans in the online world.