A few years ago I attended a seminar on marketing & it was the opinion of the speaker that the computer had changed our perception of timing ... the click of the mouse has dictated the speed of the response we seek. I believe he talked of response times aroud 5-7 seconds as being what his surveys had indicated as being acceptable, especially with the younger computer users.
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bong Manayon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Short Attention Spans (was Re: Pentax Photo Gallery Statistics) >I agree...and its not really confined to photos, wine or the American > culture either. I'm going through a book by Richard Lanham (Economics > of Attention, Univ of Chicago Press) where in the IT age, the > commodity is not information (we have too much of it) but attention. > So whether in the media, politics or religion, "truth" may ultimately > be defined by those who can get or control people's attention... > > ...and the new priesthood is Google (if it is not yet the god of this > age)... > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Bruce, >> >> This larger trend is also reflected in the U.S. wine industry. The >> "Robert >> Parker" scale is really to blame. Parker tastes zillions of wines each >> year, so each wine has just a few seconds to make an impression. If it >> is >> subtle rather than big, and not "hot" (high in alcohol), it doesn't get >> a >> high (90+) score. I think that photo.net has exactly the same problem. >> Delicate, subtle images just don't have a big immediate impact, so they >> get >> overlooked. >> >> Probably comes with the short attention span endemic to American culture >> these days, too.... >> >> --Mark >> >> >> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> > >> > [cut, snip] >> > >> >In some respects, this seems to be following a larger trend. One in >> >which art is transcending photography. Try looking at all the photos >> >on photo.net galleries based on popularity. Almost all the shots are >> >soooo dramatic that they just don't hardly look like our planet - >> >even people shots have heavy doctoring of lighting. Extreme skies >> >and wild, saturated colors are the norm these days - even though >> >where I live, I see that kind of thing maybe once every few years. I >> >seem to be rambling...must be one of those days. >> >Bruce >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Bong Manayon > http://www.bong.uni.cc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
