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Social Weavers – How Do You Define Attention?

April 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Diatribe

We interweave every day, application to application, to web page, etc. Yet we don’t just VISIT something, we DO something, we have intent, purpose, machinations even.
We can track certain aspects of this weaving, we can try to label that tracking as “attention”, but it’s not really. Attention involves more than the process of weaving [...]

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un-voiced rants, do they make a noise?

November 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Diatribe, Jumped The Shark, social spam

The IM stream started out fairly peaceful, if a bit, umm.. I dunno, antagonistic maybe.
THE RANT
there should be a law that says that no consumer should be held accountable in a contract in which the consumer cannot be expected to understand the language of the contract.
I said:
“lol
I might twitter that if I were you
some of [...]

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Why the socially networked are simply a crowd of noticers

September 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Diatribe, Web 2.0

we organize
we track
we recognize patterns,
we aggregate
we correlate
we disseminate,
we seek channels
we create channels,
we generate a bow wave
we surf in the search wake,
we curve space time with topical focus
we frame drag with our observation of the observations,
we plan, strategize, accumulate and postulate
and we say

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It’s a Me, Me, Me, Meme World

September 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Diatribe, Geo-temporal, Microcrowds, Tagclouds, Web Marketing

The “me, me, me, meme.” What is it?
Cool tech geeks start something online. We jump on the bandwagon. Our friends see what’s going on. A crowd forms, asks questions, then follows our lead. Lifestreams form.
In the video game Final Fantasy VII, the Lifestream is a river of Mako energy coursing through the Planet. The Lifestream [...]

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The Inverted Mountain of Tech

September 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Diatribe, Web 2.0

This post was initially written several months ago… – eX
I’m certain that much has been written on the concept of younger generations learning higher technologies faster and earlier than older generations can keep up. This must be classic generational dynamics. i dunno, i didn’t bother to search.
However…I was considering the topic after watching my 4 [...]

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