Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters : Howard Rheingold : City Brights. Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters.
The inside and outside of infotention work best together: Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably.Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy. Infotention Part One: Dashboards, Radars, Filters - HowardRheingold - blip.tv. Infotention Part Two: Building Information Dashboards - HowardRheingold - blip.tv. Infotention 3: Building Information Dashboards, Radars, Filters - HowardRheingold - blip.tv.