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 our lives together, we have a mind with synapses that form on new concepts and apply thought to determine a desired outcome.

Interestingly, attention can be defined as a courteous act indicating affection; “she tried to win his heart with her many attentions”

In many ways this applies to the landscape created by the disparate parts of our online social interaction.

We try to influence the external world of people places and things by our presence; when online our digital ghost provides an influencing framework through a continually contextual presence interacting with our social wake and bow wave. Our acts of attempted influence is our attention, just as much as our attention, when speaking in the language of quantum physics, creates our reality.

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 the twitter ranters have quite a following”

Then he went on to say:

speaking of having a following, don’t you think you are more likely to fall into domestic wiretapping if you have followers in social networking with links to al quida?

what do you think the chances are you are literally 2 degrees away from a terrorist?

you early adopters are like the cavemen who tried the new berries. i’m watching you to find out what happens.\

i want to delete my facebook account because there are people adding me as a friend that i don’t want the world to confuse as an actual friend.

i now report all linkedin emails as spam. the only thing linked in ever sends me is spam.

i get requests to link into people i’ve never heard of. and i get 3 reminder emails every time i try to ignore it, so it’s in fact 3x worse than spam.

i am hiding my connections list on linkedin.

recruiters have been able to use me to get to my network without my consent and without going through reasonable channels. i was a zombie social spam node.

facebook is very scary to me. you tell facebook about your personal relationships, and facebook will notify all of your friends when you break up with your girlfriend. all your friends at once. you no longer are empowered to pick and choose how you communicate sensitive information. social networking is like 21st centry nudism.

it all hangs out where everybody can see.

IF NOBODY HEARS YOU

In my opinion my friend has a very good point here and there. He speaks with force and conviction. Shows his passion well. Problem is, of course, I’m the only person that hears his “voice”. And I’ve heard the general concept before. He does continue to come up with relevant points, but I expect that.

That which he is against is that which can make his point heard by more people, who might qualify and maybe modify his point of view. A catch-22 situation. What to do?

If anyone reads this, I’ll let comments speak for themselves.

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