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iPhone for attention & productivity

In a word - perfect. Makes a great complement, allows you to look things up, stay connected, but you’re not staring at a huge screen the whole time. Doesn’t allow for full boat note taking, but i think that is a good thing. Also does not really allow for extended
complex sentences (somewhat - i’m pretty fast on the keyboard but I’d be faster with keys). Certainly my own attention is much greater compared to using a laptop.

Productivity? Well, i’m actually posting something to ye olde blogge. Would it be faster on my laptop, absolutely. However, I usually have something else to do that takes precedence. I really love being able to capture my downtime (while also paying attention).

Curious to see how mobile devices play out as more traditional computing replacements outside of enterprise - like in academia. i’m pretty sure i’d prefer students to use small devices that dont suck away attention entirely. After my panel (culture) I’m heading to the learning 2.0 panel. From what I hear in the enterprise panels, primary & secondary learning is becoming quite collaborative,which is a bit odd to even those of ulus who are not so old.

Obviously written on iPhone. Forgive all mistakes and reductionist thought.

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office 2.0 + iPhone experiment

I will be on the Culture panel at the Office 2.0 conference, September 5-7 in San Francisco. I’ll be speaking about copyright and authorship. Lest you fear yet another user generated content panel on how to best monetize and exploit user submissions, have no fear.

I’ll be discussing authorship incentives for inside the firewall apps (and how they may not work), generating effective copyright & privacy policies that will enhance user adoption, what you need to consider before adopting office 2.0 tools, open networks & portable data, and whatever else strikes my fancy and/or is the hot topic of the day. After all, is there anything more boring than listening to someone speak about the hot topic of last week?

Hopefully I’ll be able to share some thoughts that will make consumers demand and developers deliver innovation.

And of course, every attendee to the conference gets an iPhone. There will be special software for everyone to locate other people, swap info, and interact. I’m really hoping that we can add an extra layer to that (i.e., something more than technology replacing paper or physical action) in some way, and anxious to see what happens. It’s really a great experiment and I am very excited to be a part of it.

You can register for the conference at the early bird rate ($995) until August 7. That includes iPhone.