“In the attention economy, there are two philosophies: You can either act as a colonial power who treats the users’ time as an exploitable resource that should be strip mined, or you can treat it as the ultimate … resource … to be conserved.”
Usability consultant Jakob Nielsen, railing against the evils of portals (probably because he’s mad he didn’t come up with the idea first), Wired News, 23 July 1998
Ditherati: See the Digerati Dither, Daily 