Steve Gillmor’s Intentions
Looks like I am not the only one who doesn’t fully understand what Steve Gillmor’s idea of ‘gestures’ is all about. Ian Landsman says that he has tried, but failed to understand and so have I. Listening to the Gillmor Gang today, I heard a lot about gestures all the time, but it just won’t come together for me yet.
Have a look at the opening of Steve’s latest post:
Gesturemania is showing sure signs of breaking out. The last few days have brought a flurry of attention (cough) about an attention specification, Kim Cameron’s gesture grokking as channeled by Doc Searls, and the entrance of Google Reader into the RSS attention commons.
I like to think of myself as a halfway intelligent being, but what is this about? Are gestures the same as ‘attention’? And what is attention? Is it about measuring where I spend my time? What I look at? Anything but clicks? Is it a gesture when I send an email? Delete a feed from my Google Reader?
Please Steve – could we get a short summary of what the idea ‘gestures’ is about?
Source: Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » No Prisoners