I have been studying the concept of attention, especially in relation to the more recent concept of the attention economy. I started a wiki on the subject but it has been closed to the public until now. Even though it’s still immature I decided to make it viewable and open commenting to the public. Since not many people read this blog however, it’s not so “public” yet. Maybe I’ll promote a bit more in July or August 2008 when I have more time to work on it.
In short, the Attention Wiki is a discipline wiki aiming to facilitate the development of the interdisciplinary study of attention as a limited resource (also known as Attention Economics). A discipline wiki is a type of wiki that is used to organize and integrate the body of knowledge pertaining to a specific area of study.
I believe that wiki-style knowledge organization is something the academics can take better advantage of. But the traditional wiki method as conceived in open content sites such as Wikipedia is not suitable for academic purposes. An academic discipline wiki needs to be managed and moderated, authors should not be anonymous and should be recognized for their significant contributions, and certain structures should be used as the framework for the organization of the content. Read more here.
