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Owen Densmore
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I've gotten a facebook account 'cause a family member died and there  
was a facebook memorial page that was great, so I joined to show all  
the pictures to our Santa Fe tribe.

Now I've got lots of friends.  What next?  What do you guys use  
facebook for?

     -- Owen



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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Douglas Roberts-2
I haven't had time to look at my Facebook account but maybe once a week for the last couple of months.  Facebook, or at least  the "friends" that I collect on my own Facebook social subnet, seem to use it mostly to post sentence fragment-sized bits of off-the-cuff wry philosophical sound bites.

--Doug

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
I've gotten a facebook account 'cause a family member died and there was a facebook memorial page that was great, so I joined to show all the pictures to our Santa Fe tribe.

Now I've got lots of friends.  What next?  What do you guys use facebook for?

   -- Owen



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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Scott R. Powell
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A retired Washington Post reporter friend summed up Facebook this way -

"I seem to be deeply mired in this strange community. I was more or less bullied into participating by my first wife and last kids. Soon I was surrounded by cousins, and friends of cousins, and friends and friends of friends. So far so good. But like Topsy it has growed and growed. Now I cannot turn on my computer without being importuned, er, invited, to become Friends with friends of the friends of friends' friends, people I cannot distinguish from Adam's off ox. I feel cajoled, even coerced, to invite them into my parlor. The choice is Invite or Ignore. My old Daddy taught me not to ignore people, even ignorant ones.

Why, I am wondering, do these people want to be my friends? Family aside, a few weeks ago I could count my friends on my fingers and a toe or two, and felt richly endowed. To me a friend, beyond trust, affection, likemindedness and congenial companionship, is at bottom a person whom you can ask to do something he or she would rather not do, but would rather do than tell you to fuck off. A person who's happy to go with you to a place about which that person could not care less but in which that person is happy to be because you are there. And vice-versa; equably disregarding one's own druthers is the bed in which love is born.

But who are these, my new Facebook Friends? What is the point of this person-to-person, coast-to-coast Ponzi party? Why are these strangers telling me details of their lives and livelihoods, their likes and dislikes, their political persuasions, the years, makes, models and colors of their cars, the names and endearing habits of their dogs? I like talking about myself too, but only when I know who's listening. The more deeply I become tangled in this metastasizing mateyness the stranger I feel."


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
I've gotten a facebook account 'cause a family member died and there was a facebook memorial page that was great, so I joined to show all the pictures to our Santa Fe tribe.

Now I've got lots of friends.  What next?  What do you guys use facebook for?

   -- Owen



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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Mikegolf
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I had to subscribe to get photos I needed from a friend and use it now to
exchange photos and find peopleI had lost track of or to be contacted by
them.


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I've gotten a facebook account 'cause a family member died and there was a
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Now I've got lots of friends.  What next?  What do you guys use facebook
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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

James Steiner
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I use facebook to keep in casual touch with people I like but whom I
don't have time (or travel options) to see in-person on a regular
basis. So instead of a big catch-up once a quarter (or year!), I'm
more-or-less in-tune with what's going on with them. At least with the
frequent posters / commenters. Contrarily, I am not that frequent a
poster of personal stuff, but I like to post links and topics that are
important to me.

~~J

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've gotten a facebook account 'cause a family member died and there was a
> facebook memorial page that was great, so I joined to show all the pictures
> to our Santa Fe tribe.
>
> Now I've got lots of friends.  What next?  What do you guys use facebook
> for?
>
>    -- Owen

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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Owen Densmore
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Thanks for the help, good examples.

One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook,  
so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status"  
update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd  
like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
   http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/

     -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Eric Charles
I don't think so...... but I'

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.

One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook,  
so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status"
 
update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd  
like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
   http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/

     -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Eric Charles
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I don't think so, but it sounds like exactly the type of thing Wave was intended to handle.

Eric

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.

One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook,  
so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status"
 
update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd  
like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
   http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/

     -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Tom Johnson
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Yes, go to -- and get -- Tweetdeck.com

-tj

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.

One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status" update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
 http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Owen Densmore
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Well, Wave is definitely in beta.  Several of us looked at using it to augment a seminar we're taking with Nick.  Several bumps.  But it does show promise.

Main concern: I'd like not to be sucked into any particular ecology.  Google is insanely capable: Wave, Docs, App Engine, Pages, Blogger and on and on.  But other worlds are interesting too.  Facebook first looked interesting to me because my hosting service, Joyent, offers free development environment accounts for Facebook.  Very savvy, I think.  Building plugins (like the several facebook <> twitter conduits) seems like a good way to safely not be painted into one corner or another.

So bottom line is that I hope for interoperability.  I'd like to export blips to tweets, wall's to waves, docs to pages.

    -- Owen


On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:41 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:

I don't think so, but it sounds like exactly the type of thing Wave was intended to handle.

Eric

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.

One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook,  
so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status"
 
update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd  
like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
   http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/

     -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Gary Schiltz-4
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I just don't understand this Web 2.0 culture. Heck, I can't even bring myself to send a text message. Must be getting old :-|

Gary

On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Thanks for the help, good examples.
>
> One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status" update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd like it to also be published in facebook, right?
>
> Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
>  http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/
>
>    -- Owen

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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

glen e. p. ropella-2
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Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 11/22/2009 08:13 AM:
> update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd
> like it to also be published in facebook, right?

Not necessarily.  I do.  In fact, twitter is way more useful to me than
facebook.  So, I treat facebook as a kind-of ditch to catch the run-off
from twitter.

More importantly, twitter should be viewed as a global IRC chat room,
which is what it is. [grin]  So, by using tircd
<http://code.google.com/p/tircd/>, I can address twitter through the
proper interface.

People who use the two media (facebook vs. twitter) can, I think, be
divided into two types that, to me, are very similar to the two types of
WWW people: flat/simple html vs. busy/dynamic applets.  I _hate_ ajax
style web pages with lots of little wiggly bits, pop-ups, tooltips,
drop-downs, etc.  I like a nice clean interface that doesn't do anything
without my _explicit_ and purposeful action.... I really like my
motorcycle's gear shifting mechanism... it makes a nice visceral CLUNK
when I shift.  I like my computers (and my guns) the same.  I don't want
it doing anything unless I _tell_ it to do precisely that thing.  For
the same reasons, I dislike touch screens and rely fundamentally on
actual buttons.... There's nothing as satisfying as the force feedback
of a buckling spring keyboard in comparison to these wimpy
clickety-clack things so popular nowadays.

Facebook is full of annoying little wiggly bits that move around
regardless of what you do (or want to do).  Twitter, on the other hand,
is a well-behaved, simple thing... Facebook seems very Windowsy/Macsy
and twitter seems very unixy.

So, I think whether you want to hook your twitter feed directly and
automatically into facebook depends on what type of person you are and
what type of "friends" you have.  Since I don't like facebook and
dribble my banal, useless offerings mainly into IRC, it allows my
Windowsy/Macsy friends to pretend that I'm one of them.

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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Owen Densmore
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/.: Mod +2, insightful.

Twitter always seemed to me to be "broadcast text messaging", so the  
irc relationship makes a lot of sense.  I like that it works on most  
phones nowadays, thus ubiquitous.

It also fits in with the simple vs fancy.  I'm simple.  Possibly too  
much so? :)

But I am fascinated with texting and how it evolved, capturing the  
"third world" due to being far less expensive than a phone call.  It  
is definitely the "people's medium".  Dirt cheap, started outside the  
US, massively popular in the third world .. and europe.  Caught on  
here 'cause of the kids, bless them.

Mashups are still in the simple, I think: build something up from  
simple components.

This brings me to Google Wave.  It definitely is raw at this point.  
But I think of it as "simple" due to the composition of "blips" into  
waves.  And the blips can be used in multiple waves.  The text is dead  
simple.  And additional functionality is via very easy to build  
"gadgets".

Google Wave has one serious test to pass before it's OK by me: I've  
got to be able to export it off Google back into your-basic internet.  
Possibly an xml/jason export, or html export.  But I'm finding myself  
unhappy using facebook or twitter or wave if I can't some capture the  
media I've created into some standard format.

The blog folks are tackling this: how to blog, but be able to move  
onto other technologies.  Wordpress has an xml export that's close to  
OK and interoperates with many other blog engines like Blogspot.

I guess its protocols and standard formats all the way down.

     -- Owen


On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:44 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

> Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 11/22/2009 08:13 AM:
>> update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd
>> like it to also be published in facebook, right?
>
> Not necessarily.  I do.  In fact, twitter is way more useful to me  
> than
> facebook.  So, I treat facebook as a kind-of ditch to catch the run-
> off
> from twitter.
>
> More importantly, twitter should be viewed as a global IRC chat room,
> which is what it is. [grin]  So, by using tircd
> <http://code.google.com/p/tircd/>, I can address twitter through the
> proper interface.
>
> People who use the two media (facebook vs. twitter) can, I think, be
> divided into two types that, to me, are very similar to the two  
> types of
> WWW people: flat/simple html vs. busy/dynamic applets.  I _hate_ ajax
> style web pages with lots of little wiggly bits, pop-ups, tooltips,
> drop-downs, etc.  I like a nice clean interface that doesn't do  
> anything
> without my _explicit_ and purposeful action.... I really like my
> motorcycle's gear shifting mechanism... it makes a nice visceral CLUNK
> when I shift.  I like my computers (and my guns) the same.  I don't  
> want
> it doing anything unless I _tell_ it to do precisely that thing.  For
> the same reasons, I dislike touch screens and rely fundamentally on
> actual buttons.... There's nothing as satisfying as the force feedback
> of a buckling spring keyboard in comparison to these wimpy
> clickety-clack things so popular nowadays.
>
> Facebook is full of annoying little wiggly bits that move around
> regardless of what you do (or want to do).  Twitter, on the other  
> hand,
> is a well-behaved, simple thing... Facebook seems very Windowsy/Macsy
> and twitter seems very unixy.
>
> So, I think whether you want to hook your twitter feed directly and
> automatically into facebook depends on what type of person you are and
> what type of "friends" you have.  Since I don't like facebook and
> dribble my banal, useless offerings mainly into IRC, it allows my
> Windowsy/Macsy friends to pretend that I'm one of them.
>
> --
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>
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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Nick Thompson
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"Old" is not something you get.  It's something that is thrust upon you.
People who write "I must be getting old" aren't, yet.  Trust me.  

I don't think one has to be old to be uneasy when the people you repect the
most dive into a culture of narcissitic one liners like lemings into the
ocean.  

Hang in there, Gary; hang in there!

Nick

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> [Original Message]
> From: Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
> Date: 11/22/2009 1:38:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Facebook: OK, now what!?
>
> I just don't understand this Web 2.0 culture. Heck, I can't even bring
myself to send a text message. Must be getting old :-|
>
> Gary
>
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help, good examples.
> >
> > One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so
that all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status" update.
Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd like it to
also be published in facebook, right?

> >
> > Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
> >  http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/
> >
> >    -- Owen
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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Steve Smith
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FaceBook reminds me too much of AOL when it first came onto the Internet...  

I have been interested in internet/web-enabled social systems since 1979 when I first got an account on a UNIX machine and discovered UUNet Mail and News in it's somewhat early form.

Unfortunately, there is something about what happens when the unwashed masses use these technologies that is offensive to me.  I'm probably just some kind of elitist.   Even (especially?) USENet News was full of prattle... but the signal/noise ratio was like .2 instead of AOL/Facebook/etc.  that seem more like .01 .

I got on FaceBook because my grown daughters are there and it was a good way to keep up with what they were up to... but I quickly discovered that following their blogs (both centered on their craft-work) was in many ways better... the amount of chatter (around, not by) them on Facebook is rather distracting....  but then I'm not GenY... so maybe that is the irritant.

FWIW... my elder daughter (30, Phd BioMed 2007) was just visiting and said essentially the same thing... just too much prattle of the not-so-interesting variety..

Prattle on,
- Steve
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 11/22/2009 08:13 AM:
  
update.  Not sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd
like it to also be published in facebook, right?
    

Not necessarily.  I do.  In fact, twitter is way more useful to me than
facebook.  So, I treat facebook as a kind-of ditch to catch the run-off
from twitter.

More importantly, twitter should be viewed as a global IRC chat room,
which is what it is. [grin]  So, by using tircd
<http://code.google.com/p/tircd/>, I can address twitter through the
proper interface.

People who use the two media (facebook vs. twitter) can, I think, be
divided into two types that, to me, are very similar to the two types of
WWW people: flat/simple html vs. busy/dynamic applets.  I _hate_ ajax
style web pages with lots of little wiggly bits, pop-ups, tooltips,
drop-downs, etc.  I like a nice clean interface that doesn't do anything
without my _explicit_ and purposeful action.... I really like my
motorcycle's gear shifting mechanism... it makes a nice visceral CLUNK
when I shift.  I like my computers (and my guns) the same.  I don't want
it doing anything unless I _tell_ it to do precisely that thing.  For
the same reasons, I dislike touch screens and rely fundamentally on
actual buttons.... There's nothing as satisfying as the force feedback
of a buckling spring keyboard in comparison to these wimpy
clickety-clack things so popular nowadays.

Facebook is full of annoying little wiggly bits that move around
regardless of what you do (or want to do).  Twitter, on the other hand,
is a well-behaved, simple thing... Facebook seems very Windowsy/Macsy
and twitter seems very unixy.

So, I think whether you want to hook your twitter feed directly and
automatically into facebook depends on what type of person you are and
what type of "friends" you have.  Since I don't like facebook and
dribble my banal, useless offerings mainly into IRC, it allows my
Windowsy/Macsy friends to pretend that I'm one of them.

  


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Owen Densmore
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On Nov 22, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

> FaceBook reminds me too much of AOL when it first came onto the  
> Internet...

Yup.

> I have been interested in internet/web-enabled social systems since  
> 1979 when I first got an account on a UNIX machine and discovered  
> UUNet Mail and News in it's somewhat early form.

Ditto.  Remember Gopher?

> Unfortunately, there is something about what happens when the  
> unwashed masses use these technologies that is offensive to me.  I'm  
> probably just some kind of elitist.

Me too, I wish the "civilians" weren't destroying my internet.

<snip>

But let me be clear why I'm trying all this stuff.  SFX has found  
itself without administrators and with a hosting service that's more  
difficult, but much more computer savvy, than facebook, twitter,  
blogspot, pbwiki, ...  Basically we have a user community with  
contempt for computing and complexity both.  (there are a few  
exceptions, natch)

So several of us who alas are computer savvy, are starting to think we  
should move sfx off a hosting service with its complexity onto the pre-
built, user oriented, non-hosted cloud.  And to be fair, there's a lot  
of good stuff that is starting to merge into something that could  
replace Joyent/Wordpress with a mashup of Blogspot, Google Docs,  
Twitter, Facebook, Maps/Earth, Youtube, Flickr, and so on.

I think we old timers have pushed the new generation non-tech folks  
into a trap they'd prefer to skip.  So I'd like to give them their  
head for a bit and see how it goes.  Become self-administered.  No  
joke, I'm for real here.  Lose hosting, replace with the flower-child  
web.  I think they can pull it off.

And, no, I Won't Fix Their Computer!  :)

    -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Steve Smith

>> I have been interested in internet/web-enabled social systems since
>> 1979 when I first got an account on a UNIX machine and discovered
>> UUNet Mail and News in it's somewhat early form.
>
> Ditto.  Remember Gopher?
Too well.

We stood up the first www.lanl.gov as a perl script which responded to
HTTP get requests by parsing our gopher directory and serving it up as
HTML.   Tim Berner's Lee added us to his "home page" and when I did a
count, we were #50 on his list of known web servers.   It took nearly a
year after Mosaic came out to get the general populace to quit using
(and demanding that we support) Lynx and Gopher.   Actually I think it
was more like 2 before we phased them all the way out.  We stood up our
first "real" web server with an early A-Patchy (aka Apache) that other
folks at LANL had helped patch into existence.

And then we had the search-engine wars until Google won them hands down.  

>> Unfortunately, there is something about what happens when the
>> unwashed masses use these technologies that is offensive to me.  I'm
>> probably just some kind of elitist.
>
> Me too, I wish the "civilians" weren't destroying my internet.
Yah... so I don't sign on to facebook much anymore... but everywhere I
look folks are "discovering" it and trying to "friend me".  

>
> <snip>
>
> But let me be clear why I'm trying all this stuff.  SFX has found
> itself without administrators and with a hosting service that's more
> difficult, but much more computer savvy, than facebook, twitter,
> blogspot, pbwiki, ...  Basically we have a user community with
> contempt for computing and complexity both.  (there are a few
> exceptions, natch)
>
> So several of us who alas are computer savvy, are starting to think we
> should move sfx off a hosting service with its complexity onto the
> pre-built, user oriented, non-hosted cloud.  And to be fair, there's a
> lot of good stuff that is starting to merge into something that could
> replace Joyent/Wordpress with a mashup of Blogspot, Google Docs,
> Twitter, Facebook, Maps/Earth, Youtube, Flickr, and so on.
>
> I think we old timers have pushed the new generation non-tech folks
> into a trap they'd prefer to skip.  So I'd like to give them their
> head for a bit and see how it goes.  Become self-administered.  No
> joke, I'm for real here.  Lose hosting, replace with the flower-child
> web.  I think they can pull it off.
>
Mash away!



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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

Robert J. Cordingley
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And I'd also like to sail the sea in a sieve because it's cheap.  FB, TW, BS, PBW, etc are froth on that sea.  (But  perhaps here is the big picture: Non Sequitur.) Just look at the deteriorating signal to noise ratio.

Serious needs require serious solutions not mash-ups (which are fragile) but a match-up of real organization needs with real functionality.

There.  I said it.  Now, someone prove me wrong!

Robert C.


Owen Densmore wrote:
But let me be clear why I'm trying all this stuff.  SFX has found itself without administrators and with a hosting service that's more difficult, but much more computer savvy, than facebook, twitter, blogspot, pbwiki, ...  Basically we have a user community with contempt for computing and complexity both.  (there are a few exceptions, natch)

So several of us who alas are computer savvy, are starting to think we should move sfx off a hosting service with its complexity onto the pre-built, user oriented, non-hosted cloud.  And to be fair, there's a lot of good stuff that is starting to merge into something that could replace Joyent/Wordpress with a mashup of Blogspot, Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, Maps/Earth, Youtube, Flickr, and so on.

I think we old timers have pushed the new generation non-tech folks into a trap they'd prefer to skip.  So I'd like to give them their head for a bit and see how it goes.  Become self-administered.  No joke, I'm for real here.  Lose hosting, replace with the flower-child web.  I think they can pull it off.

And, no, I Won't Fix Their Computer!  :)

   -- Owen


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Owen Densmore
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I agree that there does not appear *to us* to be a non-hosted solution.

But *to them*, the participants, I believe there is a scenario that  
would work.

You have to remember that the participants have not been able to  
identify a systems administrator willing to manage a hosted solution.  
Thus the logical solution is that a non-hosted solution of the sort  
you mention *must* succeed, OR that they *must* become engaged enough  
to provide an administrator.

QED.

Remember we're dealing with both cultural and generational issues here  
that you and I are unqualified to judge, thus unqualified to foist our  
solution upon.

     -- Owen


On Nov 23, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:

> And I'd also like to sail the sea in a sieve because it's cheap.  
> FB, TW, BS, PBW, etc are froth on that sea.  (But  perhaps here is  
> the big picture: Non Sequitur.) Just look at the deteriorating  
> signal to noise ratio.
>
> Serious needs require serious solutions not mash-ups (which are  
> fragile) but a match-up of real organization needs with real  
> functionality.
>
> There.  I said it.  Now, someone prove me wrong!
>
> Robert C.
>
>
> Owen Densmore wrote:
>> But let me be clear why I'm trying all this stuff.  SFX has found  
>> itself without administrators and with a hosting service that's  
>> more difficult, but much more computer savvy, than facebook,  
>> twitter, blogspot, pbwiki, ...  Basically we have a user community  
>> with contempt for computing and complexity both.  (there are a few  
>> exceptions, natch)
>>
>> So several of us who alas are computer savvy, are starting to think  
>> we should move sfx off a hosting service with its complexity onto  
>> the pre-built, user oriented, non-hosted cloud.  And to be fair,  
>> there's a lot of good stuff that is starting to merge into  
>> something that could replace Joyent/Wordpress with a mashup of  
>> Blogspot, Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, Maps/Earth, Youtube,  
>> Flickr, and so on.
>>
>> I think we old timers have pushed the new generation non-tech folks  
>> into a trap they'd prefer to skip.  So I'd like to give them their  
>> head for a bit and see how it goes.  Become self-administered.  No  
>> joke, I'm for real here.  Lose hosting, replace with the flower-
>> child web.  I think they can pull it off.
>>
>> And, no, I Won't Fix Their Computer!  :)
>>
>>    -- Owen


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Re: Facebook: OK, now what!?

James Steiner
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Posterous looks like a cool tool for wide-casting updates to multiple
services, including tweets, blogs, pictures and videos...

~~James


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks for the help, good examples.
>
> One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so that
> all/some of your tweets appear in facebook too, as a "status" update.  Not
> sure I grok it all, but if I'm going to be tweeting, I'd like it to also be
> published in facebook, right?
>
> Anyone try it any of the automatic tweeter -> facebook apps yet?
>  http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/
>
>    -- Owen
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