a blog about information
I have some friends who talk to me exclusively through Facebook. My phone and my e-mail are displayed there for my friends. But most of the time, they talk to me through Facebook. Currently, the number of Facebook friends is somewhere in the 700s. They cover my family, my school, my university, my church, my … Continue reading “thinking about connections”
I like Twitter, particularly because of its publish-subscribe nature. A few weeks ago, I described Twitter as: a newspaper. a bulletin board. a club. an “adda”. a telephone network. Twitter is all these things. It brings me the news. It is a place where people publish notices. It’s a place where I meet my friends, … Continue reading “Thinking about Twitter: a submarine in the ocean of the Web”
[Apologies in advance. I woke up at 1am, unable to go back to sleep, with no cricket to watch, with the residue of San Francisco time still in me, and so I started writing from the hip.] I think of many things as projects; in doing so, I use what I assume to be fairly … Continue reading “Musing jetlaggedly about loss of control”
When I started this blog, this is how I began the page on About This Blog: I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and … Continue reading “Thinking further about syndication”
I’m sure there are better ways to decompose social networks, but in my simple mind, there are only a small number of fundamental components: directories and address books (you need to find the person or group you’re looking for) profiles and CVs and suchlike (there has to be some way of describing the person or … Continue reading “Wondering about status messages amongst other things”