Doc Searls Weblog · Context is King “What matters is context. I’m tired of having companies guess at what my context is. I know what my contexts are. I know how they change. I want my own ways of changing contexts, and of informing services of what those contexts are. In some cases I don’tContinue reading “Context Redux”
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NYT on finding ourself in the cloud
Interesting bit from an article in the New York Times about self-tracking – this bit rang a bell in my head around humanity / culture driving technology creation to fulfil its desires. NYT Article One of the reasons that self-tracking is spreading widely beyond the technical culture that gave birth to it is that weContinue reading “NYT on finding ourself in the cloud”
Quote sharing makes real
“The processes of recording and sharing help make things “real” by expanding their significance in our lives.” dana boyd [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/26/obsessively_rec.html]
Quote play
“We should be seeking to foster play in our information policy; it is a structural condition of human flourishing.” [berkman] Julie Cohen on networked selves [via http://j.mp/cBOXYS]
Quote opposite open
So, if we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask what the opposite of “open” is. No one is proposing a closed Internet. When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of “open” is “theirs.” David Weinberger
quote public privacy
There isn’t some radical shift in norms taking place. What’s changing is the opportunity to be public and the potential gain from doing so. Danah Boyd : apophenia: Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms
quote content-o-net
“And that’s how we get the American Cinternet. Don’t encircle it yourself. Get the feds to make ISPs into liable intermediaries forced to practice “self discipline” the Chinese way: a “graduated response” that encircles the Net, reducing it to something less: a spigot of filtered “content” that Hollywood approves. Television 2.0, coming up. Maybe somebodyContinue reading “quote content-o-net”
quote synthesyst
I am more of a ‘synthesyst’ than an ‘analyst’ (stowe boyd)
quote web
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation… — Tim Berners-Lee, www creator via straight.com
quote link
Cover what you do best. Link to the rest – Jeff Jarvis
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