nice post. I call it one's digital footprint; the collection of all your inputs into the web. in other words, the digital YOU. - http://tinyurl.com/6pp347
- linkman77
Mark, agreed. A blog (site) is definitely something that a blogger can create, but it doesn't fit the "home" metaphor. It needs much more substance than just the blog itself.
- Alexander van Elsas
Jason, last I looked Ning was using an advertisement based business model so that is out of the question to become a "home", just like Facebook could never be a "home" either. It needs to be a place belonging to the user.
- Alexander van Elsas
Linkman77, sorry, I'm talking about something different from your digital footprint. I could imagine the digital footprint being part of my on-line "home", but again, it is much more than that. I do like the digital footprint metaphor btw.
- Alexander van Elsas
For a place on the web I can call home, SNS just doesn't cut it. The closest thing to an online home is Second Life for me. I'm not there much anymore, but when I was, I owned my own land, built my own house, lounged on my couch, watched the tube, invited friends over, chatted with neighbors, etc. A home inside a virtual world is as close as it gets to a IRL home ATM. Until 3D becomes easier to use, more mainstream, and more integrated with the internet/our OS, many of us will feel like online nomads.
- Hao Chen
@Hao, yes a home could be some 3D word, but imo it doesn't necessarily need to be that. The question " who owns it" is really important. If you can use something for free, the service provider is bound to make revenues using some advertisement model, and that wouldn't fit. I don't see myself hanging a banner with advertisement in my (physical) house, so why should I do that on the web.
- Alexander van Elsas
127.0.0.1 There's no place like home. :P
- Hao Chen
Jason, open source software might work. I guess the point is I do hope that 3rd parties will come with easy to use building blocks that take care of things like building and maintenance. I don;t always have to build a home, but I do want to decorate it and customize it to my convenience. I'd be willing to pay for that, as long as it's truly mine ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
The question is whether a facebook-like service (that is withouth the infantile apps but with the basic features) could exist with a business model focused entirely on user value. If ownership of data and profile would be transferred to the user (buy or rent) then we might have a simple start of a place we eventually could call "home". The ownership is important. I get to decide what it looks like, who gets in and who doesn't, and the service provider can't hog data (wrong business model). Could that work?
- Alexander van Elsas
I'm still looking for that ultimate portable communications device. Maybe a 10-12 inch laptop, with constant connectivity (when Wimax finally arrives). A souped up iPhone is nice, but I'd like ONE do-it-all device.
- linkman77
I'm thinking along similar lines @linkman77. A phone is too small for the most part. That 10-12 lappie sounds about right...
- Ian May
I think they are going to evolve with the MID's and iPhone. I have a 12" tablet, and with my phone it has connection almost anywhere. Frankly, 12" is too big to carry - even as a computer - all the time. Compaq got it right a few years back with their 10" model - bigger than the 7"-8" UMPC's but smaller than the 12" class.
- Royce Mathew
i suspect that lot's of people avoid writing like the plague. i know i have a hard time reading my own hand-writing let alone expecting a computer to figure it out. these types of tablets will continue to stay a niche at best w/writing support eventually becoming a supported feature coincedent w/touch integration for all pc's.
- Humphrey Chen
When I have used my Tablets the main thing that has held them back is battery life. I think that problem plagues all mobile devices. The ability to ink a page of notes, or mark up a document (or even a web page) with a pen is what makes the TPC so useful to me. Handwriting recognition aside, the ability to draw a quick picture in your notes makes ink worthwhile. Touch is not enough to make a really great tablet device.
- Sean Brady
I'm on a tablet right now. I don't think I'll ever buy a notebook that isn't one.
- Jordan Hofker
Has Tablet PC era even started? I think current state of affair is somewhat similar to PDA/smartphone market in about 2005(?) when it showed signs of deprecation and loss of general interest. But a handful of innovations and efficient marketing resulted in its dramatic rebirth two years later. I don't think there's anything wrong with Tablet PC idea, it's just current implementations that aren't compelling to most consumers.
- andrei_c
had this problem the other day, with a raw image. It was just that page.
- linkman77
Not sure. All I know is it worked earlier this morning, and now when I try to share an image I get the iframe code rather than the iframe itself. I'll try it on a regular page to see if it's just an issue w/ sharing imgs.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
are you using it on a non-html page? (ie. image)
- Hao Chen
Must have something to do with the images, because I get the iframe like normal when sharing a regular page. Quite odd.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
usually happens when trying to add direct image url from the bookmarklet
- fijidaddy
I'm having these same issues, mostly when trying to share an image URL. Which reminds me, I wish the bookmarklet had better image sharing functionality (such as pulling images from multiple pages into a single "share") But let's fix this weirdness first.
- Anthony Citrano
I didn't realise you could share an image (e.g. a jpg alone) on FF? I think that's why you receive the error message. Should be a feature though. Saying that, add use vi.sualize.us and add your vi.sualize.us public feed as a service on FF and you can share images that way. Long winded perhaps but vi.sualize.us is very col
- Kol Tregaskes
Rick is right. The lifestream angle is great if your focus is your life and the chronological order, but thoughts are different -- they're topical and just because they're 'old' don't necessarily make them out of date (although in some cases they do :) The point of the conversations is 'thinking' not 'doing' (which, BTW, is the antithesis of most online design -- hmmm, haven't thought about that before).
- Rotkäpchen
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Is it the future or is the future of blogging a return to blogging roots, with noise moving to lifestreams?
- Tristan Louis
@Tristan - I get what you mean. Many blogs have become pseudo magazine publishing sites (Engadget, Techcrunch) - the personal, communicative element has been totally eroded there. I think sites like LiveJournal are truer to the roots of blogging. ie blog = weblog = web log
- linkman77
It's a good article, but it seems like this is more of a fork in the road of the future, rather than the future of all blogging, an alternative or compliment rather than the next evolution. Thought leaders may still want to blog, or have some kind of interactive platform for their voices. If RWW was a lifestream, what would this post have been like?
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
I like the idea of a blog based round the Friendfeed stream. I could see things heading more in that direction. The blog showcased in the article highlights one of the crippling drawbacks of Friendfeed, though, which is the lack of a "recent conversation" summary. Also: I don't think lifestreaming is necessarily navel-gazing. Most shares on Friendfeed aren't personal streaming, for example, but links to the articles, photos or videos that a user is interested in.
- David Young
I don't think this is blogging (as some commented), this is more a form of entertainment. It's like American Idol vs. pro singers
- Jorge Escobar
Excellent post Sarah. Ref Christopher's comment, I have been using Soup.io lately to aggregate my 'lifestream' and thoughts re music, books etc. It's nothing special tbh (I don't have any time to devote to it!), but I have thought of it as re-discovering personal blogging. definitely a work in progress and by no means is the content compelling for anyone but me, but to illustrate what...
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- Richard
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Hmmm ... I don't think life streaming will replace blogging. Twitter for example is interesting and almost addictive but it has no depth. For myself one of the great things with twitter is when people I am following point me in the direction of a great blog or post they have found. I do however agree there is a need to bring everything together, my blog for example, and especially my about page is a central hub of my Social Network. It links to most things I do online. http://www.stephenbaugh.com/about
- Stephen Baugh
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I try to logon atleast one a day or so.
- Aaron Myers
I have found another example that might be of interest in your example of new types of blogs. Martin Stabe writes a traditional blog for UK B2B magazine Press Gazette but his own blog is actually a list of his choices form Delicious - http://www.martinstabe.com/blog... - like Alan Cheslow uses only friendfeed. Of course it remains a blog since what we read is his recommendations or, put another way, his intellectual journey!
- John Welsh
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Qik has a big market opportunity with live video streaming. Audio, too, has potential for growth. Podcasts paired with blogs could offer enormous increases in value, as well as cementing reader loyalty. A weekly, 60 minute podcast with guest interviwers would make a great complement to sites like GigaOm and Techcrunch; offering a verbal analysis of the week past.
- linkman77
pretty interesting. I believe lightstreaming is very interesting
- Franklin Bishop
Great thoughts linkman! I like how RWW does this. I just got Qik on my iPhone today, and I can't even fathom all of the possibilities something like this can provide.
- Andy DeSoto
Completely agree (and a well thought out article). I think lifestreaming is more "interesting" in multiple formats because it addresses multiple learning styles and therefore people get more absorbed in the topic (person). Also agree with one you said about needing different formats to represent a person's life. People express themselves in different formats; one person may express themselves by writing, another speaking.
- Erica Toelle
from twhirl
Absolutely right, Erica. (Sorry, I'm trying to get these great thoughts into the blog post via FF Comments but that plugin doesn't seem to like how I manually posted this...)
- Andy DeSoto
"During his interview at The Start Conference, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg announced that BuddyPress will be released before the end of the year. Based on the multi-user version of WordPress, BuddyPress has the features we all expect from a social network: friends, profiles, and tasteless photo galleries."
- ~C4Chaos
from Bookmarklet
blog based social networking could be a killer app.
- linkman77
Yes, really good post. This contains many glimpses of the future.
- Meryn Stol
A report with far reaching consequences and a clear eye into the future. Thanks!!
- Aarthy
This is something that should be posted every two weeks. We tend to focus on things that make us more efficient in the current system, instead of questioning its foundation (publication pressure) and seeking long term solutions.
- Pawel Szczesny
One person is not as smart or smarter than all of us. The western ideal of the lone genius (be that one person or one organization) is nothing more than a romantic notion one that works to support non-disclosure. Your suggestion has merit in that data disclosure would potentially encourage deeper peer review, more comprehensive analysis and richer understanding. Kudos on presenting a compelling and cogent argument. The future is not proprietary.
- Dave Martin
Science is, as such, generally not proprietary, at least not the life sciences. However, we do have a tendency to be protectionist about our data and as many remind me, it's not always because of choice, but because people need to work within the confines of a publish or perish academic research system. There's enough people who want things to be different, many active in academic science (unlike me). It's easy for me to write down something. The change will have to come from within, and it will
- Deepak Singh
One problem is that in academia, we train young scientists to believe that they own the data that they generate. This explains, amongst other things, resistance to open notebooks. The notion of "my personal notebook" is deeply entrenched. We need a mental shift away from "I generated this and it's mine" to "I uncovered what was there already and now it's everyone's".
- Neil Saunders
I suppose we need a balance between the two. We need the humility to realize that what we are doing is a lot bigger than any individual, and the pride in our work to have a sense of ownership and desire to make it as good as it can be. Somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost some of those values
- Deepak Singh
That's the same Bill Joy that proposed a moratorium on Molecular Biology and Nanotechnology studies because they would end up creating tiny replicating machine-virus?
- Paulo Nuin
Yep, same fellow. I believe I once called him a luddite. That said, he has his moments. Also founded Sun along the way
- Deepak Singh
I remember a lunatic, who was at the same time a professor at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, almost got into a fight with some biologists based on Joy's article.
- Paulo Nuin
re Neil Saunders - sure it's everyones, just after the publication gets accepted :)
- Rajarshi Guha
My argument is that the grant system is part of the problem and needs change. That kind of approach (looking at number of sources) is completely bogus.
- Deepak Singh
I had an experience with my RAZR on Telstra's 3G (Australia again). It worked fine then one day it never worked on 3G again. Other makes of phones sitting right next to me got full 4 fours but I had nothing. The issue was that Telstra slightly changed the signal rendering all v3 RAZRs useless on 3G. The RAZR could no longer aquire a signal. Telstra refused to replace the phone even though they caused the problem. The moral of the story... Australian mobile and broadband sucks ass... crunchy, yucky ass.
- Johnny Worthington
Which doesn't mean much, since Australia's data is cap'd... and I have NO clue what cap'd data is like. Four FailWhale sightings per day x 30 = avg. monthly Aussie data usage?
- Mona Nomura
700mb a month on the phone...which is insane given I have a 3G modem for my laptop which I get 2gb on for 29.95/ mth (and you can get better deals now again...I was locked in on that :-( ).
- Duncan Riley
Wow. I'd be too scared to ever jump online with my handset. And Americans keep complaining about how expensive ATT is....
- Mona Nomura
Hmmm. The negative sides of the iPhones are about to outweigh the positive. I'm starting to wonder if I should spend the money on one.
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
I pay $99/month for 25GB (ADSL) and $10/month for 100MB (phone)...
- Johnny Worthington
hm - I experienced something similar...I pay 69 Euros/month for a flatrate up to 5 GB; if I use more than 5 gig they're slowing down bandwith. but what really sucks is that the (T-Mobile-) iPhone doesn't have MMS which is standard multimedia formatted texting in Germany (jailbroken iPhones have MMS apps)
- Gaby K. Slezák
@ryan I am actually a regular Supercuts customer. Big fan. Will get there this week for sure.
- Christopher Sacca
What you should have said: "google has a small organic garden and it seems to be growing. there is plenty of headroom for new plants including high margin decorative plants."
- peter
I think autotranslate would be so beautiful and seamless. Just choose a language option in your profile, and everyone's writings get translated into that. The technology is ripe enough for that. Maybe a little (ENG) or (FR) bracket to indicate something has been machine translated.
- linkman77
I think it would be awesome for all entries to automatically get translated to whatever language you choose, but I have no clue what that would entail for the developers. Although...that just gave me an idea for Greasemonkey script...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Uhm...No Mona. Anyhow, insalled it. Now where can i find some french or something.
- Gordon Swaby
jeez, I know you Americans can't spell English correctly, but do we really need a translation service? :-)
- Duncan Riley
I'm not American, I'm Jamaican!!! So Yah!!! we need it rofl
- Gordon Swaby
Is there a group on FF (sorry guys i m still new on FF!) called languages, which consists of people who speak diff languages and who volunteer little time to help other FF members with few translations? This could be cool and would complement a software, usually not 100% reliable.
- Hayk H.
The only flaw with that system is that you can read theirs, and they might not be able to read yours without that script.
- Vincent van Wylick
Gordon on the link you gave, the script wasn't able to figure out the default language. It also has trouble with link text because of the way it's written. I can try to fix it a little more tonight but it works most of the time.
- mjc
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- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
بنظر شما كدوم يكي از دخترهاي فرفر اتاقش اين شكليه؟ :))))) من ميگم جوپ :)))))))
- mhmazidi
@ مزیدی (دووووووووووووک)دکتر اینجا هم؟یه خورده جنتل من باش برای 1 بار هم که شده اسم منو درست بگو آرزو به دل نباشم:(....................اما درست تشخیص دادی....اطاق من همچین شکل و رنگی هست.البته بیشتر صورتی.اسمایلی عکسا ی اطاقمو دیدی؟:دی
- joupy
The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in many parts of the world, from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization, combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.
- Jim Stanger
from Bookmarklet
Yep I grabbed the podcasts on iTunes as well yesterday. I've heard her interviewed lots of times, and have become pretty familiar with the concepts outlined in the book. However, I had yet to actually read it. I picked it as my freebie on a new Audible account, and it doesn't disappoint in spelling it all out. No conspiracy theories, no anonymous sources. Scary. If it's taken us 40 years to get to this point will it take another 40 to "shock proof" us? Or will it only get worse?
- Jim Stanger
Now I get to try and sleep. :\ I fell asleep to this last night and dreamed of crappy brutal dictators and Blackwater mercs. Greeeeat. G'night everybody!
- Jim Stanger