Attention theft
March 1, 2007 – 9:34 pmAlas, I have begun getting comment spam (caught so far via moderation, so I don’t think they’ve been visible to readers here). Weeds in my little knowledge garden.
From the Introduction to Knowledge Management book I reviewed earlier: Attention is the currency of the Information Age, and trust is the bandwidth.
If spam is attention theft, where does one draw the lines in the physical world between so-called guerrilla marketing (whether modified Lite-Brites or less disruptive forms), vandalism (flyers pasted onto public property, logo graffiti on buildings), littering, … and theft?