Re: Mar 08

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   mingyeow 16-Mar-2008

   What is it about a Web site that might make it literally irresistible? ^{link »}

   who is interested in the evolutionary and biological basis of the human need for information. ^{link »}

   new and richly interpretable information triggers a chemical reaction that makes us feel good, which in turn causes us to seek out even more of it. ^{link »}

   When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us 'infovores.' " ^{link »}

   We are programmed for scarcity ^{link »}

   This is the reason why twitter is so addictive despite so much noise ^{link »}

   2 key things here
   - new and richly interpretable ^{link »}

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