Eugene Wei

One-line: Blogger and technology essayist; source of the “attention arena” description of Facebook’s News Feed quoted in Working in Public.

What we know

• Described Facebook’s News Feed as the “greatest social capital boom in history” — a “single giant attention arena” with “live updating scoreboards on each post,” quoted by Nadia Eghbal in Working in Public.

Connections

• Nadia Eghbal — quoted his “attention arena” description of Facebook’s News Feed in her book.
• Working in Public — the Eghbal book where his News Feed framing appears.
• Open-Source Knowledge — the concept thread that surfaces his attention-arena framing.

Mentioned in

• Open-Source Knowledge - Research — attention-arena framing.