First Crack 69. Garrick Talks About Attention, Advertising, and Interruptions
January 2nd, 2006 by 
Garrick Van Buren
Just me today to kicking off the new year with a new mic - Sennheiser e816S, a simplified production process, and a glass of Armagnac.
Things on my mind:
- Cooper’s crying is like interruption-based advertising is like a Vonnegat story.
- Distribution is Advertising.
- Removing distraction for the New Year; moving status indicators to my dashboard and unsubscribing from yahoo podcasts, ruby on rails, and a pile of rss feeds.
- Errol Morris’ First Person
- Special thanks to Dave Slusher for remembering the story was Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, Lewis for the bottle, Sam for the delivery, and Jeremy Piller for the theme music.
Listen to Garrick Talks About Attention, Advertising, and Interruptions [10 min]
Posted in Attention, Media, Podcasts, advertising, errol morris, kurt vonnegut | 
January 4th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Dude, this was way too quiet. It was inaudible at the level of everything else. When the next show came on, it blasted my eardrums out.
January 4th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Thanks Dave and sorry.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Neal Stephenson has some interesting things to say about “continuous partial attention.”
January 6th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Coincedently, I finally got through the Attention Panel from last year’s SuperNova. It starts out with a presentation by Linda Stone - credited with coining the term “continous partial attention”.
I thought it was ok - didn’t keep my attention.
January 13th, 2006 at 1:06 am
I traced the level problem to a bad cable. I know I’m much happier getting the levels I expected. Apologies on the quietness of this one.