Comments on: Five-Minute Celebrities

By: dt

dt — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:54:48 +0000

Great post. I can relate with The F.M.C

I have personally dropped people on my twitter, facebook feed because of all the chat/ad/poke/play/rant spam.

Sometimes I wonder why do people follow the things other people have to say, but strangely they seem to do.

Perhaps its another form of voyeurism? Regardless what you say has to be good or removing is just too easy.

By: yani

yani — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:20:17 +0000

Great article., especially the part about the bombardment of trivial information. Makes one appreciate the time away from it all.

By: KLIM

KLIM — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:48:12 +0000

between Facebook, Flicker,Behance, second life, my space and all the other networking sites and forums individual world wide visibility is expanding but there is still work to do. pretty soon they will have to perfect the I-CLONE in order to manage peoples networking efforts

great article

Klim

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By: ophelia chong

ophelia chong — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:22:31 +0000

all i want to know is, when the zombies attack, where will all my "friends" be?

replying to scottyo's comment: i spent over a month in china this year (back and forth). even with the proliferation of brick and mortar pirated DVD stores to spas that cater to the newly local rich, there was still the wall that stops information from the outside world. i could not log in to my blog, see flickr (there are work arounds) or access certain news sites. what will happen next year with the olympics? it will be controlled by an iron fist. already the beggars have disappeared from the streets, repatriated back to the countryside. they are playing with cloud seeding to clear the polluted air in beijing. even trying to control the water temps in the ponds so that the lotus will bloom a month later for the olympics. controlling access to the internet is the easiest of their tasks.

By: Eric Karjaluoto

Eric Karjaluoto — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:04:02 +0000

I'm with you there Scott. :-)

By: scottyo

scottyo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:18:35 +0000

Many say that the Web has democratized publishing for the world with the advent of html, web logs, wiki’s and the like. The world in this case refers to generous estimate of 1/5 of the total global population. Of that group, it is safe to say that the majority are average users with enough technical skill to consume content produced by a small minority of the technorati. I believe that we are still a ways away from a point where we can say the Web has had a true positive global impact on us as a whole.

We are in the beginnings of a transition where the Web 2.0 can and should foster applications and social networking to transfer information that is useful and purposeful not just for better business, return on investment and increased value in stock. What about positive environmental change, true democracy and government accountability, balanced global economics, fair trade and societal benefits for all classes? These should also be imperatives we should strive to improve using our technology.

By: Aaron Weinstein

Aaron Weinstein — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:35:43 +0000

Great post. I agree with your prediction that the significance of connections made on the web will become more important as the number of self promoters snowballs. I myself have entered a phase where limiting the amount of content that makes its way into my web-experience is very important.

By: eric smith

eric smith — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:00:02 +0000

great read. the power of the internet is truly amazing. it has changed the world.

(thumbs up)

By: Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:51:46 +0000

Hah. I just removed a "Karl" (I'm wondering if it's the same person) from my Twitter friends because the bombardment of their blog entries and conference activities was no longer manageable. Signal-to-noise ratio, and all that. It felt good to do that, and in fact, I even posted a tweet about how good it felt to do that :) Maybe I should tweet this post :)