{"id":667,"date":"2006-03-24T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2006-03-24T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T10:19:58","slug":"continuous-partial-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/continuous-partial-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Partial Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sort of read this one while I was working on a document and patching\/rebooting a few servers, and talking on the phone.  So I think I understand the point, sort of.  Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11899893\/site\/newsweek\/\">the article<\/a> doesn&#8217;t say much beyond that &#8220;continuous partial attention&#8221; is sort of dangerous, and sort of rude, but also can be a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stand IM and the annoyances it brings, so I have never been an active user.  I am guilty of continously checking two email accounts (work and home), and checking my feeds on Bloglines however, all while doing whatever it is I&#8217;m doing at work.  I have recently been trying to remember to close the Bloglines tab, at least, once I chew through the morning&#8217;s feed glut.  I find that helps somewhat with my attention deficit, but only for a little while.  Just don&#8217;t ask me how many things I am trying to do while also writing something for the blog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sort of read this one while I was working on a document and patching\/rebooting a few servers, and talking on the phone. So I think I understand the point, sort of. Anyway, the article doesn&#8217;t say much beyond that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/continuous-partial-attention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-aL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}