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 Sunday, July 15, 2007
started 7/15/2007; 9:34:03 AM - last post 7/16/2007; 12:02:21 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, July 15, 2007 
7/15/2007; 1:34:03 PM (reads: 8566, responses: 2)
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Stay of execution for U.S. music webcasters 
| | Cause for optimism. But also cause to call your congresscritters. If you care. Which you should, even if you don't listen. Yet. |
Social Silo Liberation Front
| | Social groups to which I belong in the physical world do not compete. They do not carry advertising. They do not have business models. They are not gathered so somebody else can make money. Except maybe at work. Maybe. |
| | Weirdest of all for me is this stage in the Facebook process where you're asked how you know so-and-so. Did your braces get tangled? Did you fight over the same parking space? Share a disease? I always hit "skip this step", but why should that step be there in the first place? And why should my only form of association with a school be "student" or "faculty"? |
| | For all their goodness, these "networks" are silly. They are also as temporary and annoying in their competitive isolation as Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL were, back in the day (or the decade). Those things were Net-unfriendly long before their surviving members became Net-native. |
| | I don't think these silos can fix themselves. But I think we can fix them, and make better ways to associate with each other, and with vendors, without living in isolated corporate silos. |
| | That's one mission of VRM, seems to me. |
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Damien Riley - Re: Sunday, July 15, 2007
7/16/2007; 9:14:31 AM (reads: 1918, responses: 1)
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I've had a hard time understanding the appeal of facebook. If you're into that sort of thing it seems MySpace is just as good with many more members. Kind of like the Iraq war . . . it's just there and no one explains why.
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leslie winer - Re: Sunday, July 15, 2007
7/16/2007; 4:02:21 PM (reads: 2282, responses: 0)
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Well, I like FaceBook. It's a great tool for a writer and provides ample opportunity for much lowbrow comedy. It's fun to push the envelope of whatever the hell it's supposed to do. It's the new Great Noir American Novel. Hilarious to watch the internets experts get all freaky in an ADD friends race. Earnestine McCoin would certainly take umbrage with your POV, Doc. And She is Scoble's friend.
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