Social Networks Follow Us
We join a “#social network” and then the networked within start to follow us. We also add new “friends” but don’t much differentiate amongst our choices. We have true friends, special friends, acquaintances, strangers with similar passions, strangers with ulterior motives, causes, game systems, and many other categories of #groupings and #microcrowds, but we fail to automate the connections in an actionable manner. We might as well be “friending” the whole world if we don’t differentiate our interactions. Without flavors of “friends” we lose our context, our ability to use our relationships in a way that builds a stronger lifestyle rather than engendering attraction to the shallowness of our current situation when highly entwined in online social interaction.
It currently takes too much effort to stay well connected, with our collective engagement fractured to an extent that has never been seen before in human history. We interact with and are distracted by highly attractive but subjective information spurts, forced into our attention window by our environments. We gain much in this interaction, but I believe many people on the edge of the adoption curve can foresee a tipping point and the glut of “attention grabbers” will reach a level of personal exhaustion. When we receive the next invitation for anything that grabs our attention we might simply shut down and stop processing, even at the shallow processing level that we’re at today.
What might help >> Open identity systems. Cross site collaborative widgets. API’s. Yes, and…
I know who I am. I know who my friends are. I know how I would classify all the other breeds of contacts that I have. Give me a method, manner, protocol, process, schema or dogma that works to keep my life automated, my contacts pleasant and my lifestyle interesting.
Filed under Integrity, Microcrowds, SNAP | Comments (2)When Good Content Goes Bad - News as Fiction
I was researching some information related to what happens to passwords when you die (that’s another story) and stumbled across an interesting bit of post-factum editorial revisionism by Wired. It seems that a particular author may have some problems based on the inability of Wired to track down some of the sources in the article. Perhaps the content, while well written, is only a work of fiction? Is this a really old story that I missed or forgot was already addressed by Wired?
Read the disclaimer next to the author.
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So this got me thinking about the state of our web content. I mean, who really polices the quality of content on the net? No one, impossible, right? What happens to the news integrity of an article after it’s immediacy has worn off? Does it matter if an Internet news article turns out to be a fake after the fact? Tree falls in the forest…
Justin’s integrity is his dilemma
Justin Kan’s integrity is his dilemma. Everyone I know that has met Justin, myself included, have universally characterized him as “genuine” and “real”, but not real in the cable television sense of the word. His dilemma is that this might be his special star secret. His persona is the key to his success.
Now I’m not going to make him out to be similar in nature to that pretty camgirl who turned out to be an actress. Justin Kan, star of justin.tv is just one of those guys you meet and think during reflection about the meeting, “he’s nice.” And not nice in the Kathy Gifford sense of the word (or Ann Curry for that matter.)
Fortunately for everyone, we can see Justin at his best and his worst, we see him talk with strangers, “original” friends and his family. (Wait, he censored his call with his mom recently, so I expect they will need to build some rules for themselves.)
The Justin.tv team are getting inundated by thousands of emails from fans and potential business partners. They are developing a “hyper” schedule to control their day. They have discussions about how or if Justin is “HANDLED” simply because he is now doing so much.
Justin is doing so much MORE than he used to do. I can only speculate, because I did not have a camera following Justin before he hit the SF tech scene with the sounds of a Concorde jet at full speed, but I suspect that Justin’s life has changed quite dramatically over the last couple weeks.
So the question is, can Justin sustain “HIMSELF”? Can he retain that thing which makes him such a likable guy? Isn’t that a core requirement to his success?
Filed under Integrity, Web 2.0, Web Marketing | Comment (1)Josh Wolf finally receives his “get out of jail” pass
Josh Wolf, the citizen journalist and blogger who was imprisoned for refusing to hand over his raw video footage of an anarchist street protest to a grand jury investigating the incident, has been released after more than 200 days in jail. He refused to comply with authorities in order to preserve journalistic freedoms of speech, earning him his stay with the Feds and I personally want to thank him for his courage.
Welcome home Josh.
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