Comments on: Google Buzz and the Abundance of Information About Nothing http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry by Ethan Kaplan, VP Product, Live Nation Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joly MacFie http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-193373 Joly MacFie Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:29:20 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/#comment-193373 Hi I'd like to refer you to a recent talk by Eben Noglen (I video'd) entitled 'Freedom in The Cloud". An advocate of Free Software in the talk he suggests that the only real future solution to personal control of social media is for individuals to maintain control of their own data and interactions by utilizing 'freedom boxes' - personal social media servers running on a distributed network. Noting that the majority of smartphones are freely programmable he challenges the FOSS community to come up with the necessary technolgy. http://isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 Just today I was watching some vid of Jeff Pulver predicting much the same thing.. Hi

I’d like to refer you to a recent talk by Eben Noglen (I video’d) entitled ‘Freedom in The Cloud”.

An advocate of Free Software in the talk he suggests that the only real future solution to personal control of social media is for individuals to maintain control of their own data and interactions by utilizing ‘freedom boxes’ – personal social media servers running on a distributed network. Noting that the majority of smartphones are freely programmable he challenges the FOSS community to come up with the necessary technolgy.

http://isoc-ny.org/?p=1338

Just today I was watching some vid of Jeff Pulver predicting much the same thing..

]]> By: Eric http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-193370 Eric Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:20:41 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/#comment-193370 You have some good points but I would also wonder whether we have different identities in real life. For example: Work Identity Home Identity Friends Identity Family Identity Do we interact the same with people from different identities. I realized this once when I wrote on someones wall on Facebook, used a 4 letter word and then was told they were going to delete it because "Work" people might see it and there was a need to stay professional. Some people for example are afraid to have their parents friend them on facebook because they cannot be the same person they are outside of their parents. We have real life identities and we have online identities and I think the problem is that they do not match up for people. You have some good points but I would also wonder whether we have different identities in real life. For example:

Work Identity
Home Identity
Friends Identity
Family Identity

Do we interact the same with people from different identities. I realized this once when I wrote on someones wall on Facebook, used a 4 letter word and then was told they were going to delete it because “Work” people might see it and there was a need to stay professional.

Some people for example are afraid to have their parents friend them on facebook because they cannot be the same person they are outside of their parents.

We have real life identities and we have online identities and I think the problem is that they do not match up for people.

]]> By: Rudy http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-193368 Rudy Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:18:53 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-and-the-abundance-of-information-about-nothing/#comment-193368 I'm curious as to what your thoughts are on peoples 'self' identity for those who have only one account with gmail. For instance I have one account for buzz which is also the same email I use for Twitter which is the same email I use for facebook. I imagine this is the case with a majority of average users of these services. So then wouldn't these services be more accurate representation of who we really are in the virtual world? I find that rather than growing my social graph, each new service is more or less a copy of the same social graph. Thanks, Rudy I’m curious as to what your thoughts are on peoples ‘self’ identity for those who have only one account with gmail. For instance I have one account for buzz which is also the same email I use for Twitter which is the same email I use for facebook. I imagine this is the case with a majority of average users of these services. So then wouldn’t these services be more accurate representation of who we really are in the virtual world? I find that rather than growing my social graph, each new service is more or less a copy of the same social graph.

Thanks,
Rudy

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