Comments on: Wave, Bing, Topsy and other attention deficit mechanisms http://blogs.gartner.com/michael_maoz/2009/06/03/wave-bing-topsy-and-other-attention-deficit-mechanisms/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Kate McNeel http://blogs.gartner.com/michael_maoz/2009/06/03/wave-bing-topsy-and-other-attention-deficit-mechanisms/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Kate McNeel Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:25:07 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/michael_maoz/?p=195#comment-252 Michael, Nice analogy with "The Usual Suspects." That movie has been on my brain lately, and now I know why. I think one of the most useful traits we can all develop is the ability to sniff out the dolts. Twitter is just a big, continuous cocktail party. The conversations are pretty light, but the dolts do reveal themselves over time, the same way they do in any other conversation. Michael,

Nice analogy with “The Usual Suspects.” That movie has been on my brain lately, and now I know why.

I think one of the most useful traits we can all develop is the ability to sniff out the dolts. Twitter is just a big, continuous cocktail party. The conversations are pretty light, but the dolts do reveal themselves over time, the same way they do in any other conversation.

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