| yahoo looms large |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|08:15 am] |
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Yahoo recently acquired del.icio.us and Flickr (ads are already starting to appear... sigh.), AND this morning I sit down to a message that konfabulator is also now also part of the Yahoo empire. This is okay, I suppose, as long as they don't bundle a bunch of s**t with the downloads as they do with their IM client. I am annoyed enough that when I downloaded the update, it erased all my settings and it took me a full ten minutes to figure out how to set the location. It's 0 degrees (why '0 degrees' = plural and '1 degree' = singular?) here this morning and I don't much need to know what it is in Palo Alto, thank you very much... I can't feel my toes. Anyway, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but one of the things I kind of liked about the social software movement was that it was so grassroots - I suppose it will continue to be by it's very nature, but... you know... I'm a librarian too... I hate change; expecially when I have no control over it. |
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| passionate enough to become text |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|04:01 pm] |
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A colleague just send The Catalog Department to me. I think the idea of being 'passionate enough for text' is beautiful and true. I was also just discussing the pitfalls of IM and how communicating with it. How does it change the idea of and value we assign to 'face time'? He was worried that IM would become the new face-to-face - I think that it only enhances it. Same as telephone, email, telegraph, quill, and any other revolution of 'modern' personal communication. But, I find that many of my self censors come down in the remote format of IM - it's like making school kids wear uniforms - it strips us of our looks, our jobs, our status - and reduces each to their ideas and how they express them. Exposes them as disorderly, but passionate enough to be writing their own books. |
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