Comments on: social networking http://fredart.com/wordpress/2006/09/18/social-networking/ a less visible blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:19:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: kochiro http://fredart.com/wordpress/2006/09/18/social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-3783 kochiro Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:46:08 +0000 http://fredart.com/wordpress/?p=225#comment-3783 One way around this is something like this software: http://www.brim-project.org/ However, you must have a web server that you can put it on. This way you can put all your stuff in a 'virtual desktop' like area and access it from anywhere. Also, because it is on your server you know it is safe from the prying eyes of data mining companies. Plus, since it is a web portal it can be accessed from a variety of portable devices (pda, phone, psp...) as long as they have web access. Jay One way around this is something like this software:
http://www.brim-project.org/

However, you must have a web server that you can put it on. This way you can put all your stuff in a ‘virtual desktop’ like area and access it from anywhere. Also, because it is on your server you know it is safe from the prying eyes of data mining companies. Plus, since it is a web portal it can be accessed from a variety of portable devices (pda, phone, psp…) as long as they have web access.

Jay

]]> By: Shaggy http://fredart.com/wordpress/2006/09/18/social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-3782 Shaggy Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:11:50 +0000 http://fredart.com/wordpress/?p=225#comment-3782 While I do participate in a lot of the social networking stuff, I do find a lot of it anoying and difficult. I pretty much only have things on MySpace for exposure since it seems to have been adopted quickly as a way for people to listen to underground music. The amount of porn spam I get on that site, though, is quite sick. Most of the forums I read and post to are fairly technical in the way of the recording/music industry. There is a lot of great info out there that has helped me many times. The sad part is that there is a lot of snobbery out there and quite a few unfriendly people. I guess it's not much different from real life in that respect. While I do participate in a lot of the social networking stuff, I do find a lot of it anoying and difficult.

I pretty much only have things on MySpace for exposure since it seems to have been adopted quickly as a way for people to listen to underground music. The amount of porn spam I get on that site, though, is quite sick.

Most of the forums I read and post to are fairly technical in the way of the recording/music industry. There is a lot of great info out there that has helped me many times. The sad part is that there is a lot of snobbery out there and quite a few unfriendly people. I guess it’s not much different from real life in that respect.

]]> By: fred-rin http://fredart.com/wordpress/2006/09/18/social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-3781 fred-rin Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:11:45 +0000 http://fredart.com/wordpress/?p=225#comment-3781 That, of course, is the trouble with data. In order to keep it useful, it needs to be in formats that can be parsed in different ways. And, of course, everything is somewhat proprietary. The biggest worry with any kind of stabilization of data into some sort of formal set that is this 'wad' that we just take from format to format is that it becomes a peice of ourselves that may say more about ourselves than we want. I'm not worried so much about stalkers and identity theft, mind you, but i do worry about just what all these corporate companies do with that info. It's bad enough that they can parse a huge amounts of things about us already, making everything universal will just make it easier to collect, i guess. so... maybe the day when we go to use some new system or social network thing and find that it's already set up and all our info is already there for us to use... that's when we should be scared. :P That, of course, is the trouble with data. In order to keep it useful, it needs to be in formats that can be parsed in different ways. And, of course, everything is somewhat proprietary. The biggest worry with any kind of stabilization of data into some sort of formal set that is this ‘wad’ that we just take from format to format is that it becomes a peice of ourselves that may say more about ourselves than we want.

I’m not worried so much about stalkers and identity theft, mind you, but i do worry about just what all these corporate companies do with that info. It’s bad enough that they can parse a huge amounts of things about us already, making everything universal will just make it easier to collect, i guess.

so… maybe the day when we go to use some new system or social network thing and find that it’s already set up and all our info is already there for us to use… that’s when we should be scared.
:P

]]> By: vexx http://fredart.com/wordpress/2006/09/18/social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-3780 vexx Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:46:31 +0000 http://fredart.com/wordpress/?p=225#comment-3780 I guess my aggravation with all the tools is that I end up having to *re-enter* data over and over and over and over.... (even my damn cellphones don't play nice). I'd like to be able to keep all my e-data is some universal format file and be able to pump what I want into the myspace/blog/cellphone/pda/webpit of choice. There is a such a format of course, but no one uses it :) I guess my aggravation with all the tools is that I end up having to *re-enter* data over and over and over and over…. (even my damn cellphones don’t play nice).

I’d like to be able to keep all my e-data is some universal format file and be able to pump what I want into the myspace/blog/cellphone/pda/webpit of choice. There is a such a format of course, but no one uses it :)

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