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OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready?
An anonymous reader writes "Many people love and use open source software. Open source has made an impact in just about every place imaginable; education, hardware, coke, beer, cell phones, pharmaceuticals, search engines and encyclopedias. However, OpenHuman takes it one step further and invites you to open source yourself to experiment with the open human idea. This may sound crazy and rife with privacy concerns but as the author asks, do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
"...do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Yes I do. Of course, I make very sparing use of those technologies, and I post AC at Slashdot.
I would consider opensourcing myself, but I'm afraid I'd be immediately forked.
I plan on open sourcing my daily schedule. In this way, everyone gets to decide what I have for breakfast, what kind of shampoo I use, what kind of clothes to wear, and where I work. I've already started, I've been experimenting with running all of my personal correspondence through a "meWiki", which lets any member of the public edit every message I write before it gets sent out. TESTICLES.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
"do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
Yes, i do.
Thats the reason i dont have a blog, dont whore my photographs out to flicker, think myspace it a breeding experiment for retards and never heard of something called "meetup" before.
So i guess i dont really belong to the target demographics...
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
"An anonymous reader writes..."
Fabulous!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"This may sound crazy and rife with privacy concerns but as the author asks, do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age
of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?""
Uhhh, what? This is like saying "Why not just start murdering people? Come on, look at how full our jails are with murderers!". Granted that's a little extreme, but the justification for uploading a naked photo of myself is basically "everyone else is doing it!". No thanks.
Also, the site looks damn awful. Can anyone say "two-bit idea with even less design time"?
Open source has turned into a fad that's sweeping the nation! How about we call anything and everything open source so that we can appeal to that demographic and sell whatever products we want! Yay! Open Source Mac and Cheese! Open Source High-Top Sneakers!
Let's all share in the love of Richard Stallman and stop this trendy madness!
ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM
a documentary featuring Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Danger Mouse(of Gnarls Barkley), doesone and more!
You wouldn't believe the number of "patches" my wife submits daily to "improve" me. Then my kids have their suggestions about how I can do everything better than I am. If I google my name thousands (literally) of hits come back, many of those are in response to RFC's caused by my asking questions or giving opinions on the net. It's a constant race to stay one e-mail address ahead of the spammers and my IM client is constantly in motion due to one customer passing my contact info on to another.
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.
I got together with a like-minded open-source linuxchick some time ago and we produced a couple of extremely viable derivative works. Fortunately, neither one of us tried to exert control over the other's homegrown portion of either of those derivative works.
The trouble is that the derivative works are now starting to think about creating next-gen derivatives which has me sort of worried about whether they'll respect the ideals of the community or if they'll become sellouts like Novell...
Oh, well, I suppose we'll just have to wait and see...
Give a man a match: warm him for an instant. Douse him in petrol and set him aflame: warm him for the rest of his life.
It's all part of the synergistic paradigm of Web 2.0 creating a forward-looking social matrix.
Well, he does say that he hasn't had a girlfriend in about two years. That could explain quite a lot of this...
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Um, could someone explain how the OpenHuman concept "takes it one step further"? The founder's own page seems less open than most myspace pages.
It seems fairly obvious that being "entirely open" is a really, really stupid idea. It has been known at least since the 6th Century BCE that your personal information (history, status, intentions, beliefs, etc.) can and will be used against you by others seeking power and your subjugation. To suceed in a world of conflict and competition at times requires deception: insuring that others cannot pin you down, that if they seek to manipulate you their efforts are based on misinformation. Are you going to include on your resume a link to a page that contains naked pictures of yourself, that cataglogs your personal problems and issues, and that details your secret fantasies? Sometimes it's best to just shut the hell up. If you really need to divulge everything about yourself, for therapeutic reasons or whatever, why not do it anonymously? Unless, of course, attaching this information to your real name is to your advantage somehow.
Clearly the "open" information provided by the site's founder has been prudently selected. To frame its presentation by saying "oh, i'm being 100% open -- this is the real me" is actually quite clever. A page like his might help him make contacts, show off his computer skills, get girls, etc. But it would be of no use to him if he included information about his sexual dysfunction, his absolute hatred for his family and pictures of his hairy ass.
Ludwig Wittgenstein