Information overload has become the typical issue of anyone using the web to access or search for nuggets of information. Both the search and the subscription paradigms lead to countless results, posts, articles that one needs to sift through to extract relevant facts. Using Attention metadata (blog subscriptions, document hyperlinks, URLs and keywords entered by a web user,…) is one of the mechanisms infrastructure providers will use to elevate relevant pieces of information – as demonstrated today by the first generation of meme trackers (like Memeorandum, TailRank,…).

This sounds like an interesting conference. I am going to follow that happens with the Attention stuff. This is data we could use, and provide. We've already been trying to approach the situation in a similar manor since 2001.

Also check out this Steve Gillmore article about Attention.

Jeff Clavier's Software Only: SDForum Search SIG: The Search for Attention