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Paul Watson tries Tom Carroll's thought exercise in listing all the silos that presently suck up his attention data. Paul's up to 25, but I'd add a wrinkle to a few items on his list--for example, Apple, iTunes and his Nano are all potentially-connected segments of the same silo.

This matters because the fundamental problem we face with regard to attention silos is that we can't move our data from one to another. A company may make it easy to move data from one segment of their silo to another, and that's a useful service--but ultimately we should be able to move our data anywhere we want. I don't mean to pick on Paul here at all--I'm just making the point that there are silos and there are SILOS.

tags: attention attentiontrust attention+trust attention+data attention+economy paul+watson tom+carroll