"Hi Kelvin. Send me an e-mail with a link to your true profile and the links to those who misused your identity. Something like that happened to a family member in the past and was able to shut it down."
- Janette Toral
"Hi Regnard. Thanks for sharing this. When will this be deployed? I'll be upgrading my site and would want to transition it in time for this one."
- Janette Toral
Hi Folks! Today is my birthday, I'm 33! :) And I wanted to celebrate by releasing an idea -and an implementation of it- to the wild! It's Socnode: The basic unit of distributed social networks. http://www.socnode.org/
:) Really glad to have you arround, guys! Jorge, now your turn, man! ;-) Josh! That's *A* HONOR! Watashi wa? Hontoni honto? Arigato Josh san, and hey! Focus Daniel San! ALLWAYS LOOK EYE :) — Mille merçis, Laurent! :)
- directeur
Credit where credit is due: The blue O is an idea by Vijay no baka! The guy who knows how to insult me in japanese and who in return gets his fair share of insults too! Arigato, rokudenashi! :) — Oh and to see the thing in action, go to http://socnode2.appspot.com login with "beta" and password "123" share something and go to http://socnode.appspot.com to see it there too!
- directeur
Thanks Laura! Tunahan, thank you too! And Oh yes! I'm old, and old people don't send DMs to their turkish friends with a shamefull record of them singing in turkish :D
- directeur
otanjoubi omedeto gozaimasu directeur :D btw the Matrix series that rocked the planet was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. Not only that, GITS talks about social media and memes 10 years ago. The anime we watch are far from the silly Powerpuff kiddie anime that people normally see as anime. Watch away directeur, I'm with you :D
- vijay
Happy birthday, Directeur!! Looking forward to checking out SocNode, thanks for sharing!
- Harold Cabezas
Thank you all folks! :) @Vijay: Totally! @Harold, please do! You can try the demo (links above) and check out the source code too! @Cristo: Happy birthady to you too! ;-)
- directeur
Happy birthday, glad to meet you and have you as a FF. Be happy allways, you deserve it.
- Céu de Buarque
Thank you, all! :) Jason, let's hope so! As I often said it in the Dango Daikazoku group, the idea here is really more important than my own django implementation of it -which actually is beautiful too! ;-)
- directeur
A belated happy birthday to you, Directeur. :)
- Brome
"Hi Nica. For non-club members, the workshop cost P4000. Per session fee is P750. To register, just click on the registration link above. Thank you for the interest."
- Janette Toral
One Year Ago Kevin and I were down in Carmel with many of our Friends and Family, getting ready to get married. Sunday will be our 1st Anniversary!!!! I Love You Kevin!! And I'm bringing back the video I made for you last February to help celebrate!! Happy Anniversary Weekend! - The Book of Love - For Kevin on Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/3206596
That is a great video! And a great tune. Our friends Danny and Bethany played that song at their wedding. What did you use to make the video?
- Robert Felty
Man, that went by so fast!!! Happy Anniversary Fox's!
- Erin "Wifey" Johns
Congrats! It was such a wonderful event :) How quickly the year has gone.
- Georgia Diehl
You were married on September 13th? That's our anniversary! Congratulations!
- joey
Also, that's a lovely video! You're quite talented.
- joey
joey, awesome... any 13th is awesome fun, but i very much love September 13th, great time of year. Congrats to you guys too!!! And thanks, it was a fun video. With the right programs and lots of patience you could totally do it too. I love doing kinetic typography. I want to do some speeches or beat poet type stuff too.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thank you everyone for all the great wishes!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Home. Was awoken by a phone call from a good friend in Brooklyn who called me and told me to turn on the television.
- Derrick
Well, by this time of the day I was listening to one of my neighbors hurl every curse word imaginable as Marine 1 flew over our apartment building on its way to the White House.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Asleep. Didn't know about anything until I was eating breakfast and my friend in DC called to let me know he was OK. I was like, "Uh, why are you telling me this?"
- Shannon Jiménez
Getting ready to go to work, and slowly hearing about co-workers in eastern North America who were trying to get home to California. Not too long after that I went to a law enforcement confernce in Toronto where John Ashcroft was the guest speaker. I admit to being a little nervous on that trip.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
Working out of an office in Nassau, Bahamas on a road project. Pretty much nothing got done all day while we tried to watch as much of the news as we could get hold of.
- 1x29
At home, woke up early to catch the markets opening and was greeted by "America under Attack" Yahoo home page. Spent the rest of the day glued to the internet.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Getting ready for a Web seminar at 8a PDT. Saw the events and drove into the office anyway, only to have the phone lines taken by the govt. We rescheduled.
- Louis Gray
Eating lunch before last year @ Uni started
- embee
Trying to connect to news website to figure out what was happening but could not get through.
- Philippe
In fourth grade, preparing for PSSA testing.
- Michael Ryan
I came into work, was told what was going on, and I said, "you're kidding." I really thought they were trying to put one over on me.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Aromas, trying to get ready for work, when news of the twin towers attacks hit the radio...
- Helen Sventitsky
I had just landed in San Diego airport having flown from Washington Dulles (En Route from Vienna). My brother-in-law called and when I picked up, his first words were "thank God"
- Deepak Singh
"That is true Azrael. Sharing an item via Twitter or Plurk allows you to get feedback right away on the content you have just posted. Allows you to get loyal readers too."
- Janette Toral
"Hi Jerome. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I agree with you that it will just continue. Posted this just to air my position on the matter to be clear or transparent with bloggers and advertisers who wants to work with me."
- Janette Toral
So let's talk a little bit about Community. Ideally you should own your community. There's one way to do this - around a blog. So what I'd like is to focus on some sort of open technology that, when you subscribe to my blog, you also subscribe to my Twitter stream, my Facebook stream, my FriendFeed stream.
It should work the other way too - when you subscribe to me on those networks it should auto-subscribe you to my blog and any other network I'm on.
- Jesse Stay
Then, you can come to my blog to get my full stream, or go to the individual networks to get what they provide. Their responsibility should be to provide something unique to complement your social graph, something your blog doesn't provide.
- Jesse Stay
I'm just brainstorming here - would love others to chime in.
- Jesse Stay
Or, the responsibility of the Social Networks could be in following your social graph. You subscribe via the blog, but follow (and organize) via the social network.
- Jesse Stay
But against that, if I read your blog, I shouldn't have to see your Twitter stream that might be filled with descriptions about your coffee intake.
- Johnny Worthington
I'm tired of this being tied to one social network or another because our community is there. We should own our community, no matter where we go.
- Jesse Stay
Johnny, that would be the responsibility of the blog design to separate that from the main content in an organized manner.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, agreed re separation of main blog content from 'outliers'
- Kate Foy
This is why I think Seesmic or TweetDeck have serious potential - they could do this.
- Jesse Stay
Flip it around, Jesse. Start thinking and talking about your content and the related conversations rather than the frame that's put around it. People centric vs service centric.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, correct, but where is that information stored? Where do I centralize it all so I own it? The blog makes the most sense.
- Jesse Stay
Love the concept - this matter of owning your community. How do you deal with the added noise? Will there be filters in place as well? Some people are great bloggers but some of them turn into another kind of beast altogether when they go to twitter and the other networks.
- jan geronimo
Right now the blog is really the only personal content store and publishing system we've got. You could set up a Laconica instance, but the way that meshes with the rest of the world isn't very mature. Perhaps there's something we need to build on the blog back end that let's you author content and chose which channels to push it to... and not necessarily push it to your blog, per se... if you know what I mean.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ideally, I think Twitter/Facebook/FriendFeed should be organizers of your content, not sources.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I want my blog to be the hub, but I do have other conversations with other communities in my varied outlier networks. I want some way to pull it all together rather than have to keep heading out somewhere. There is a lot of overlap. My blog has seen many more hits since I've talked it up on my other networks. What you are suggesting seems to be a reasonable next step. It would certainly solve a lot of my problems.
- Kate Foy
Ken, I think that would be incredibly useful. It would be a simple matter of creating a Wordpress plugin that does that (or similar for other engines). If Twitter could receive my PSHB or rssCloud posts rather than be the sender that would be ideal as well because then there wouldn't be any new technology
- Jesse Stay
You know, we sorta need some sort of personal content hub and dashboard... which doesn't necessarily have to be the same view the reader/visitor has. You might have content spread out all over the web on different services, with associated comment threads on FriendFeed, @replies on Twitter, Facebook items, etc. but with some central dashboard to manage them all only visible to you, the author.
- Ken Sheppardson
Or, maybe in the rssCloud or PSHB specs a "destination" tag could be specified to say "I only want this to go to these destinations - if you're not one of them, you don't get my content"
- Jesse Stay
Wordpress also needs to fix their architecture to categorize main blog posts, and separate them from microblog posts. The interface needs to be much simpler in doing that as well. (along with other Blog platforms)
- Jesse Stay
Well I have a link for my self right now that I designed as PoC, for something, that is one step of the way to doing this, I'm working on setting up the database design for it, and securing everything at this point, but here are my pertinent locations. http://lnkr.hiphs.com/socialme (button will open multiple tabs) Still trying to make it more friendly.
- Jimminy
Right now we're headed down this rathole of trying to aggregate all the conversations related to a particular piece of content in some giant list of comments under a blog post. It only confuses the reader. Keep the convos separate, but make them all visible to the author in a more unified way. Only confuse one person. As the author you can serve as the intermediary/moderator of all the different convos.
- Ken Sheppardson
I need to put together some diagrams to organize what I have in my head. I'm not sure any blog platform is really set up to do it perfectly yet.
- Jesse Stay
It might be helpful and free the thinking up some to drop the term "blog". We're talking about more of a personal "Content Management System" or hub.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken's idea of personal content hub and dashboard- now that would simplify a lot of things.
- jan geronimo
You could really use rssCloud or PSHB well with this though - you could tell it only to ping Twitter, or only ping FriendFeed, or only ping Facebook that you have a new feed when you only want it to go out to them. You'd just need to get Twitter/FB/FF to accept RSS/Atom feeds as a way to import content.
- Jesse Stay
Ken, re: dropping the term, "blog" - the thing is we never really left blogging. "Micro-blog" is just a shortened form of blog. It could certainly be called a "Content Hub" though, in respect to rssCloud and PSHB.
- Jesse Stay
I know from a "Social Media Expert" standpoint everybody thinks about the channels by name (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, etc), but I'd be inclined to try to think about just flagging things by whatever sort of taxonomy you want to apply... short vs long, personal vs professional, lolcats vs "do anybody nos"... you come up with the flags and categories, apply those to the content you author, and the system decides where to push it. You never think "I'm going to tweet this", you just write and tag.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm going to chat with Joseph Scott tomorrow (my friend at Automattic) and see how this could fit into Wordpress, if at all.
- Jesse Stay
What if you don't care about blogging? To me this is just a bulletin board, and I'm replying to your post. Blogging seems to be very elitist to me.
- Cristo
Ken, that's pretty much what I'm thinking - you could even use open standards to make that work, assuming Twitter and FB and others supported it to push updates.
- Jesse Stay
I don't really want other people "owning" what I write. Everybody owns whatever they write.
- Cristo
...and I think beyond that everybody should get to chose how and where they write it. As long as we have a global system of in-reply-to pointers, comments can become "first class" objects that we sling around just like we do the items they refer to.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jesse, I can delete it also, unless you block me. In which case, I will no longer participate in conversation with you.
- Cristo
I don't use Twitter, but if I comment on FriendFeed, I'm not commenting on your blog. I'm commenting on the conversation on FriendFeed.
- Cristo
That might be, but it isn't my desire. I'm not excited about the publisher / subscriber model of publishing. I want coffee shop conversation, not old media frameworks.
- Cristo
I'd just point out that content isn't like a lamp or a chair. It can exist in more than one place. There's a whole can of worms related to licensing, but fundamentally there's no reason your comment can't live on both of our "personal content management systems".
- Ken Sheppardson
When you delete your comment on my blog, you're really just revoking my license to display it. You might still keep it somewhere, display it on your own site, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Great, so then it's like Usenet, except everybody has their own rules for their posts. You have to read the license agreement and understand all the terms and conditions before you reply to anyone. Sounds great!
- Cristo
Yeah, I don't think of it that way. That's why I like to delete my account every so often. I'm not looking to maintain a web presence. I'm only in it for the moment.
- Cristo
I think what you're fighting against, Chris, is the fact that you fundamentally can't delete something once you publish it these days. There's no "this tape will automatically self destruct" capability for FriendFeed comments. The minute you hit enter, a couple hundred systems could pick up that content via the API, and it's completely outside your ability to control.
- Ken Sheppardson
You might delete the most obvious instances, but it's out there. To take a simple example, there's a room here... FFRooms, I think... that's just made up of RSS feeds from other rooms. As soon as you post something in a room, FFRooms picks it up, and even if you delete the original item it's in FFrooms for posterity, "owned" by the user who imported the feed from the original room.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that's true. I am fighting against that. And I will continue to, because I have been involved in legal cases before, and it's not pleasant to have boxes of documents and email trolled through.
- Cristo
Jesse, yes, but I can delete who I am. And I can make it more difficult for others to see what I've written.
- Cristo
#2 rule of thumb on the web, you never know what will be used against you later.
- Cristo
#4 rule of thumb on the web, you don't have to actually delete everything, you just have to make it more tiresome to troll through it.
- Cristo
#8 rule of thumb on the web, don't try to tell other people how to use technology just because that's the way you think it should be used.
- Cristo
#1 rule of thumb on the web, never give Jesse Stay a break. I would have made this 10, but Ken limited me to 9. Also, he didn't say I couldn't start over. :)
- Cristo
#10 rule of thumb on the web, don't post a lot of inflammatory nonsense where you bait people and act the fool, then decontextualize it by deleting all of your comments to make the other person look like they were being jerks or 2 people who were destroying you were fighting with each other and try to clean your reputation
- Matthew DeVries
Nope, just welcoming you to the conversation.
- Cristo
LOL that's the first time I've ever seen anyone use that logical and most rational of responses to that.
- Matthew DeVries
I've actually never liked this whole own your stuff, blog is king movement. If you're not feeding your family with your blog, it's just way more trouble than it's worth. I like things the way they are, with a giant pile of tools that if you want them connected, you build them up and put them together yourself, and have the choice to mix and match.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, that's fine, but your blog should be able to be part of that mix and match. You should have control based on where you originated your content.
- Jesse Stay
There's also the whole social graph side of it. I want my Social Graph to follow me from network to network. I don't want to have different social graphs on each. I should have full social graphs, with filters based on how I want to see it on each network.
- Jesse Stay
Yeah, that's what I don't like. This one home idea. I want my twitter people on twitter, my facebook people on facebook, my blog people on my blog, and my work blog people on my work blog. I want hard walls between them.
- Matthew DeVries
Jesse, maybe you should ask Chris Saad to add that to the APML spec, the social graph aspect, I'd also love to see APML become a more commonly used protocol.
- Jimminy
Matthew, that's old-school thinking. Too much work. You should be able to filter based on network, but your social graph, at least those who are subscribed to you, should follow you where you go.
- Jesse Stay
Jimminy, yeah, Chris would be a great person to talk to, and he could get SixApart's involvement
- Jesse Stay
I couldn't disagree more. It's just not a comfortable feeling. The connecting should take work and effort that shows you really mean this. No body wants just one identity.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, I do - I am who I am, wherever I go.
- Jesse Stay
If you need a new identity then create a new identity, but that new identity should be able to port as well in its own domain.
- Jesse Stay
Matt, if you want to make people work for it, I provided a link to a PoC I worked on a while back, and picked up again in the past week, http://lnkr.hiphs.com/socialme (button opens multiple tabs to my blog, FF, FB, and Twitter.)
- Jimminy
Also, your one world idea stiffles creativity and innovation, because every new product now has to mesh with your world to even have a hope of getting noticed. Even with the nice hard walls that do exist now, people are still pressured, "yeah, that's neat, but can it plug in to Twitter?"
- Matthew DeVries
I'm sorry but I think there's something you miss if you use the word "own" and "community" in the same sentence. You don't own your community, you can't and you shouldn't. Your community is a temporary aggregation of people and interests, you cant make them stay and you cant make them do anything - you can just welcome and engage and be very happy if they stayand come back.... and...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Your ideas are too McDonalds and not small town artisan organic enough. I don't think it's a good thing that a Big Mac tastes identical whether I have it in Detroit, San Fransisco, Miami, Singapore, Paris, or Tokyo. You're laying out the blueprints of "The Man"
- Matthew DeVries
I think you guys are misunderstanding my full thoughts on this. The networks you belong to still give you control to subscribe to whom you want. I still think the Social Graph (aka, who subscribes to you) should be able to originate at the blog though (note the "be able to"). I'll share more thoughts on my blog tomorrow hopefully. I'm going to sleep in the meantime.
- Jesse Stay
This is a perfect example of how it should be, http://www.sarahlane.com/. All the Sarah Lane ingredients are there, but I get to decide how I bake the bread from it. I get the Sarah Lane I want, not the Sarah Lane that Sarah Lane wants me to have.
- Matthew DeVries
And actually, you're wrong about that "the same everywhere" Blog Scoble, is very different from Twitter Scoble, from Friendfeed Scoble, from video Scoble, from TWiT guest Scoble, and I like the ability to build my own Scoble. I don't care much for Blog Scoble, don't hate it, it just didn't capture my attention. Friendfeed Scoble is my Friend, I can DM him without thinking I'm bugging a...
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- Matthew DeVries
I think each site and platform must be treated differently. No issue on streaming blog post updates but messages on microblogs must be unique or not happening in parallel to maintain communication quality (rather appear like a spam blast).
- Janette Toral
I think I get what you're saying about the whole mix-and-match approach, Mathew. What I'm suggesting is that we could do a transformation, refactoring--however one wants to phrase it--from "Blog Scoble", "Twitter Scoble", "FriendFeed Scoble", etc. into "long form essay Scoble", "quick announcement Scoble", "asynchronous chat Scoble", "location information Scoble". We can take back control from the services that wrap our content in ads or repackage it under their brand and put the focus back on the author.
- Ken Sheppardson
a nice feature of friendfeed is how easy the view can be customized by hiding some of a friend's streams
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Jesse, I've tried hard to understand what your vision is here. Have you expounded on it elsewhere outside of this current incarnation of the FF interface discussion at hand? I'm seeing MD's point as equally valid as what I'm (still) assuming the Jesse's point is -- but I'm wondering how this got on the topic of controlled parameters for the social graph one elects to expose/offer vs. a direct ocular feed into the cortex of mindless /subscribers/. (which is how I read it going to the bottom of the thread).
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay, I'm going to try and do a good blog post on my thoughts. I think you'll find that MD's points fit in nicely as well. I may just write a proof of concept and use that to explain what I'm thinking. We'll see what I have time for.
- Jesse Stay
But I don't like Blog Jesse! I like Orkut Jesse! ;)
- Matthew DeVries