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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Monday, 18 May 2009
Trial by Facebook
Anyone looking for an insight into the psychology of the average British citizen may want to have a glance at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43720372184 which another happy group of Facebookers have found someone guilty of having the same name as a murderer, Ian Huntley, and in one section prove how superior they are to him by beating him to death - which of course upholds their moral standing. These exponents of social networking are outraged that Huntley has access to a PC and one or two of the techno-cognoscenti have suggested he may have a games machine with internet access (and a DSL access point in the cell no doubt - or perhaps he nips down to the prison branch of Costa Coffee and hooks up wirelessly.) Now I have no problem with Huntley having an uncomfortable life, but we seem to be heading for the day that some poor sod is killed because he has the same number and roughly the same shape as a child-killer. Here a few of the well considered comments:
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Jon Vernables and Robert Thompson - they seek them here they seek them there, and seemingly fnd them on Facebook
I saw this on Facebook today and my immediate thought was that the IQ of the group is that of the least intelligent member of that group. And this Facebook group has thousands of members whose avowed intention is to kick off Facebook two people whose only crime may well be having the same name and being born in the same year as the killers of the child James Bulger.I have no sympathy for the killers, although they have served their sentence and I am not at all convinced that the ire and hatred of this crowd is more about getting on the bandwagon than any true feeling (Were all those people really affected that badly by the death of Princess Diana?)
As I understand it the two lads have gone into hiding to avoid being murdered by the people that object so much to murder. (Bit like murderers who attack rapists in prison, because clearly the murderer holds the moral high ground there.) So signing up to Facebook under your own name is pretty foolish. I am assuming that someone is managing their new lives so that person must be pretty pissed off at the moment. Months of careful work to give these lads a new life somewhere down the drain because they settle into their new homes, make new friends and immediately dump their new nom de plumes and sign up for Facebook under names remembered by half the country...
I was tempted to suggest to the Facebook posse (in the western sense) that it could be the wrong person but I doubt they would listen, much easier to think like the herd really... Oh and if we are being a cynic, want to bet on public grief, TV specials and other media wankfest when Jade Goody dies?
Friday, 13 March 2009
The Rise of the Social Nervous System
Joshua Michele-Ross published an informed piece for Forbes Magazine called The Rise of the Social Nervous System. His essential argument is that communication is the foundation of society, business and government. The internet scales up the capacity for this communication and at the same time renders services and coordinates action from humans input. He calls this the rise of the social nervous system.
Josh focuses on now familiar examples: the Mumbai terrorist attacks as reported real-time on twitter, the Obama campaign (and in particular, the Houdini project), and Google Flu Trends. But Josh weaves them into a powerful conclusion:
"Watch the news, and you will see daily evidence of how a system that connects billions of people is influencing the physical world- from recent protests in California against Proposition 8 organized by Facebook to the riots in my hometown of Oakland after several witnesses uploaded video taken from their mobile phones of a police shooting."
Josh explains that key to the Web 2.0 experience is the notion of harnessing collective intelligence; examples of this can be seen in the way that wikipedia allows user generated content, or the way in which Amazon stays ahead of its competitors with the plethora of ways that users can contribute to their website and how that data is then used. But these effect are no longer limited to cyberspace and have an impact on real world activity.
Josh points out that these effects are not limited to cyberspace, but are used to control and coordinate real-world activity. This is the new frontier, moving from "sensing" to "reacting," from "cognition" to "coordination" and group action.
Many of the most successful Web 2.0 system derived their success from implicit rather than explicit data, the contribution made by simply clicking a link from one site to another that is recorded and used by Google to affect page ranking. One of the questions which Web 2.0 writers are struggling to answer is how far does this interaction go. When buy by credit card, we don't think we are contributing, but software at the bank, the merchant, and our personal finance application is listening to that credit card reader.
Those applications will share and sense not just words passed from human to human across services like Twitter, or our search behaviour but sounds, pictures, and increasingly, data from senses that unaided humans don't possess at all, or less precisely: a sense of precise location, or the rate of speed at which we move, the power we consume, the carbon we emit, the approaching weather, the state of the financial markets, the unique sequence of our genome, or even the way we smell.
The next great fortunes will be made by the people who discover how to build a system that reacts to one of the Internet's new senses.
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Josh focuses on now familiar examples: the Mumbai terrorist attacks as reported real-time on twitter, the Obama campaign (and in particular, the Houdini project), and Google Flu Trends. But Josh weaves them into a powerful conclusion:
"Watch the news, and you will see daily evidence of how a system that connects billions of people is influencing the physical world- from recent protests in California against Proposition 8 organized by Facebook to the riots in my hometown of Oakland after several witnesses uploaded video taken from their mobile phones of a police shooting."
Josh explains that key to the Web 2.0 experience is the notion of harnessing collective intelligence; examples of this can be seen in the way that wikipedia allows user generated content, or the way in which Amazon stays ahead of its competitors with the plethora of ways that users can contribute to their website and how that data is then used. But these effect are no longer limited to cyberspace and have an impact on real world activity.
Josh points out that these effects are not limited to cyberspace, but are used to control and coordinate real-world activity. This is the new frontier, moving from "sensing" to "reacting," from "cognition" to "coordination" and group action.
Many of the most successful Web 2.0 system derived their success from implicit rather than explicit data, the contribution made by simply clicking a link from one site to another that is recorded and used by Google to affect page ranking. One of the questions which Web 2.0 writers are struggling to answer is how far does this interaction go. When buy by credit card, we don't think we are contributing, but software at the bank, the merchant, and our personal finance application is listening to that credit card reader.
Those applications will share and sense not just words passed from human to human across services like Twitter, or our search behaviour but sounds, pictures, and increasingly, data from senses that unaided humans don't possess at all, or less precisely: a sense of precise location, or the rate of speed at which we move, the power we consume, the carbon we emit, the approaching weather, the state of the financial markets, the unique sequence of our genome, or even the way we smell.
The next great fortunes will be made by the people who discover how to build a system that reacts to one of the Internet's new senses.
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Bit of Twit
Decided to use my Twitter account; for no other reason than it might attract some more clients my way. The attempts to form my own business have been less than successful and things are looking a little bleak at the moment. Not sure that this Twitter thing will do much, but I suppose I do have to try. My account is http://twitter.com/wanderjahre everyone is welcome, not just webheads, so maybe see you there!
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