Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, bloggers, YouTube, and many of the other pillars of attention online gain their strength because of tapping several major representations of curiosity online:
1. Need for Attention: seeking of action and reaction. From pokes to blog posts, odd status messages, Video posts, and profile pictures many strive to be noticed. Knowing that [...]

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Posted by: Diana Zink on Saturday, 5th Apr, 2008

Guess what are the three things in common between e-mail, snail mail, blogging, social networking, computer games, games period, tabloids, sports, You Tube, and successful advertising? (Playing Jeopardy tune here)…

Not to keep you guessing for too long, here are the top answers:
1. All of them, worldwide, attract a significant amount of attention
2. All of them, worldwide, suck in enormous amounts of time
3. All of them, worldwide, feed off of our insatiable curiosity and need for feedback

Now, even though we all know curiosity has nothing to do with dead cats (most of the time), it has everything to do with wastes of time and making of money. That is why this article strives to unveil some of the origins and applications of the above-mentioned phenomenon.

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Posted by: Diana Zink on Saturday, 5th Apr, 2008

Today, out of the blue, a layoff at a company I know sent 13 very smart and successful people out to the job market.
Layoffs are normal, the job market takes and gives and, often enough, being sacked benignly may be one of the best things that ever happened to you. All of your former colleagues [...]

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Posted by: Diana Zink on Friday, 14th Mar, 2008

An interesting Google search today revealed that the first post I wrote for this blog had been replicated 100% without credit or links on a host news site. If you’re curious, or just feel like writing a good hosting post and you wonder where it would end up, run a google search on any phrase [...]

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Posted by: Diana Zink on Thursday, 13th Mar, 2008