Upcoming: Minimal Blogging Tool
American software developer Dave Winer announced that he is working on a simple blogging tool that keeps an archival copy of your content on your servers, but pushes it out onto whatever other publishing platform you choose. "The important thing is that you and your ideas live outside the silo and are ported into it at your pleasure," Winer wrote. "You never have to worry about getting your stuff out of the silo because it never lived in there in the first place."
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_forefather_seeks_to_re-invent_blogging_ag.php
Stupid things to say about social media
Criticising social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is as pointless as knocking people who discuss the weather. Writing in the Guardian, Cory Doctorow suggests a few things to say if you want to sound like an idiot when you talk about social media: "It is inconsequential, banal blather; It is ugly and a designer nightmare; it is ephemeral and will blow over in a year." "There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to social media," Doctorow says. "They condition us to undervalue our privacy and to disclose personal information. They have opaque governance structures. They are walled gardens that violate the innovative spirit of the internet. But to deride them for being social, experimental, and personal is to sound like a total fool." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/social-media-cory-doctorow/print"Public is the new default"
As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla, and uploading photos and videos of their most private moments to the Web for all to see. It’s easy to say that privacy is dead, we all live in public now, and just deal with it.
But things are a bit more complicated. It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24-7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of our lives to keep private. Public is the new default. Stowe Boyd calls this new state of exposure "publicy."
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