On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Brent Wallis <brent.wallis@gmail.com> wrote:
But lately, I have been deemed a philistine because I refuse to do any blog, linkdn, lamebook or google- time wasting.......
That's a lot of different things. Blogging is different because people explicitely publish things that they want to publish, there is no great pressure to publish more and everyone knows it's world-readable. LinkedIn is also presumably different because it's work based which means that whole categories of personal data are out of scope for it.
Some in the global debate deem my attitude as being criminal.....~"What have I got to hide?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kx05kU5gZg http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/pet_shop_boys/integral.html # If you've done nothing wrong # You've got nothing to fear # If you've something to hide # You shouldn't even be here The Pet Shop Boys sum it up well in "Integral". The video has QR codes for web sites related to freedom and privacy. It's surprising how well mobile phones can capture those QR codes given how quickly they flash on the screen and the limitations of Youtube resolution.
Would love to hear opinions on this. The pressure on our business to start a social networking communication stream is starting to make we wonder whether or not we can participate positively ....without giving away too much...????
When a business joins any social networking system (even Twitter) there is an immediate and significant pressure to solve many little problems that affect the loudest customers. So you should start it at 9AM on Monday when you have a week with little planned. Back to the original topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) I'm considering setting up Diaspora, not that I think it's a great thing or something that I want to. But it may help prevent people from doing things on Facebook etc which can only improve the situation. http://afreshcup.com/home/2009/4/28/a-painful-decision.html It's unfortunate that Diaspora is written in Ruby on Rails. I have limited time for learning new languages and I'm not going to waste any of it on THAT language. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/