links for 2008-09-14

43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work | 43 Folders "Friends, I’m done with “productivity� as a personal fetish or hobby. There are countless sites that are all too happy to vend stroke material for your joyless addiction to puns about procrastination and systems for generating more taxonomically satisfying meta-work. But, presently, you won’t find so much of that here." (tags: via:vielmetti productivity getting-things-done business-culture creativity mission ) Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Macropayments "Taking someone’s money is expensive. It incurs transaction and bookkeeping costs and it incurs emotional and social costs. Micropayments have historically focused on eliminating the cash overheads while ignoring the intangible costs. For a writer whose career might span decades and involve hundreds of thousands of readers, these costs cannot be ignored." (tags: business-model marketing attention cultural-norms...