After hearing about it for weeks, I caved and decided to check out friendfeed last night [and again, ht @dpn]. In previous posts I mentioned something I like to call the information diaspora. This is the phenomenon created by posting all sorts of personal information about your likes, dislikes, thoughts, opinions, etc all over the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘information diaspora’
friendfeed
Posted: 12 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: friendfeed, information diaspora, information overload, social networking, web 2.0
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Emperor Zuckerberg I
Posted: 3 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, information diaspora, mark zuckerberg, opensocial, plaxo, robert scoble, roman empire, social networking
The Roman occupation of Judea (Israel) during the first century AD was disrupted in 70 AD when the Jewish people revolted. Rome, being a kick-ass military power, put down this rebellion. However, they couldn’t let the Jews get away with this attempt at self-rule, which might encourage other provinces to do the same. The new, [...]
Tweets for Twits
Posted: 18 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, information diaspora, social networking, twitter, web 2.0
Well, after many frustrating months of waiting for Twitter to finally fix their gmail contacts import feature, I have finally done it! Surprise, only two contacts were signed up — and that’s two more than I expected. However, one of those is a professor who probably only checked them out because they’re using his technology [...]
Information Diaspora
Posted: 9 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, information, information diaspora, information overload, mashable, neologisms, social networking, visual bookshelf, web 2.0
I’m going to officially coin the term information diaspora to mean the dispersion of individual personal preference information throughout the web. Whenever you sign up for an account, you leave a part of your personal information somewhere. Whenever you enter an address to order a book, more information. When you look through digg comments and [...]
