Der Bestätigungs-fehler – wie auch andere kognitive Verzerrungen – fallen umso gravierender aus, je weni-ger Aufmerksamkeit aufgewendet wird.

Tuning and feeding our PLNs is where the inter-nal and technological meet the social.

Bad info isn’t the only daily hazard for the mindful digital citizen. There’s also the issue of too much information, too quickly. Infotention combines a mind-set with a tool set

The world demands “infotention” 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. ~ Howard Rheingold

The researchers found that people who saved the first file remembered more of the list in the second file, according to their paper published in February in Psychological Science. This effect was not seen if the saving process was demonstrably unreliable or if the first file consisted of only two words and so was not substantial enough to interfere with memory for the second file.