http://www.attentionmax.com/blog/2009/06/25_years_ago_tetris_foreshadowed_the_way_we_now_consume_news_and_personal_status_updates.php Max Kalehoff On Marketing, Media & The Edge...Plus Bonus Insights On Start-Up Culture & Raising Kids. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:57:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.attentionmax.com/blog/2009/06/25_years_ago_tetris_foreshadowed_the_way_we_now_consume_news_and_personal_status_updates.php#comment-5297 Tetris, news consumption, data streams « Tom Van Hout Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:34:26 +0000 http://www.attentionmax.com/?p=2340#comment-5297 [...] news consumption, data streams 9 08 2009 On the eve of Tetris’ 25th birthday, Max Kalehoff blogged: One of the most innovative and addictive aspects of Tetris is the perpetual, intensifying [...] [...] news consumption, data streams 9 08 2009 On the eve of Tetris’ 25th birthday, Max Kalehoff blogged: One of the most innovative and addictive aspects of Tetris is the perpetual, intensifying [...]

]]> http://www.attentionmax.com/blog/2009/06/25_years_ago_tetris_foreshadowed_the_way_we_now_consume_news_and_personal_status_updates.php#comment-5209 Tetris and us (+25) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:55 +0000 http://www.attentionmax.com/?p=2340#comment-5209 [...] From Max Kalehoff: One of the most innovative and addictive aspects of Tetris is the perpetual, intensifying stream of bricks the player must align without spaces. In fact, this very element foreshadowed howwe now consume most news content and personal status updates on the Web: in reverse chronological streams. Tetris’s layers of bricks fall with greater speed and complexity as you master the ability to arrange them in straight, crumbling rows. That is not unlike news feeds and status updates that funnel into your desktop and mobile interfaces, intensifying as your ability to sort and digest them increases. Indeed, there are classical elements of game mechanics in both examples. [...] [...] From Max Kalehoff: One of the most innovative and addictive aspects of Tetris is the perpetual, intensifying stream of bricks the player must align without spaces. In fact, this very element foreshadowed howwe now consume most news content and personal status updates on the Web: in reverse chronological streams. Tetris’s layers of bricks fall with greater speed and complexity as you master the ability to arrange them in straight, crumbling rows. That is not unlike news feeds and status updates that funnel into your desktop and mobile interfaces, intensifying as your ability to sort and digest them increases. Indeed, there are classical elements of game mechanics in both examples. [...]

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