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Geomicroblogging, Buzzword or Reality?
An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone 3G and Android devices are coming this year, opening the mobile world for rich applications, while sites like Fire Eagle and byNotes are ready to move your blogging habits into the geospatial world. Are we going to watch the next boom when those devices and geospatially enabled sites get combined? Sure, the posibilities this would open are endless, but are users going to embrace these services?" I don't see how it can't change the world ... it has 'Micro' and 'Blog' in the name, and I'll always know where I was when I twittered to tell everyone I was in the john.
"geoonlinemicroshitting" - look ! we have another a new one ... "socialmicrobuttwaggling" whoops !! theres another one .... "cyberonlinepantsironing" - i guess there is no endin sight to this ....
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If anyone ever uses the word 'Geomicroblogging' with me in conversation I might just break several of their bones. When will the madness stop?
Nobody gives a rats ass about where you are when you tell the world what you are doing...Unless it's hilariously unintentional.
"JUST BANGED A HAWT GURL BEHIND THE CLUB!!!!!"
Location: Mom's basement
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Sounds like a Twitter Shitter to me.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Key word in there is VOLUNTARY...
Already have GPSs on board, already have mapping on board, already have photo and video, already have a "lifeblog" on board to sync the phone info up with your favourite blog.
What I'm saying is, it's been done already, you guys are so 2005.
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You beat me to it. There is a world of difference between voluntarily giving your position and other information about you and your current activities, and the Government of Industry tracking your position and other information about your activities without the ability to opt out.
That being said, I'm not interested. If I want people to know where I am going to be I'll tell them if they need to know, not post it or have some 'micro blog' tracking my every move. I don't need to blog it or broadcast it. Maybe I am showing my age but I am really finding all of this stuff to be getting increasingly silly.
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I understand blogging, I don't do it because I think I'd rather live my life than write about it, but I get it.
I just don't understand why so many people are so excited about being able to blog in so many different ways... if it doesn't improve the quality or the value of the content what good does it do?
I don't know the figures, but I know that at least 99% of all blog traffic is to less than 5% of the blogs on the internet, and I know why that is... CONTENT! Give these bloggers a tool to create better content!
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter.
The type of people that invent/mashup these names on their blogs etc have a dream of one day standing in front of a crowd of people while being introduced as "the father/inventor/visionary of microcyberblugblurging".
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I mean, why enjoy the peacefulness of nature or the majestic view when I could be tapping away on a fucking keyboard?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
There are other people who care nothing about this 'twitter-micro-geo-blogging' phenomenon who are looking forward to this technology. For starters, you install some crap on your kid's phone, and it lets you live-track where he is, and emails you every time that little SOB hits 90 in YOUR car...
I will have to agree with this. I could broadcast my life online too, but whats the point? No one in their right mind would give a flying shit what I waste all of my time on.
7:00AM - Woke up
7:10AM - Started coffee
7:30AM - Drank some coffee
8:00AM - At work
9:00AM - Still at work
10:00AM - Why are you still reading this?
Can all fish swim?
"I'd say there's an important difference in there. If person A wants to take a part of their personal life and make it public, that's up to them. The problem is when person A wants to keep something private and entity B decides that person A doesn't have a say in the matter."
I think what the GP had in mind were not those people who are concerned about vountary vs. involuntary exposure, but the situation where a person wants their information to be concealed from only SOME people - eg. getting upset at employers who read Facebook profiles. Folks now have wider circles of people they are comfortable sharing privledged information with, but still don't want that information known by specific others. So where once a "secret" was information shared by a small number of trusted people, now we have information that is to be HIDDEN from a small number of UNTRUSTED people. This is a patent impossibility, but still people expect to be able to do it.
My wife is a substitute teacher, and got a Facebook profile and added her nieces and nephews as friends. And now she knows to within a few days the exact time that one of them lost her virginity. How on EARTH she expected to keep that information from her family, while simultaneously allowing access to everyone who wanted to be her "friend" is beyond me, but I do know that she wanted it kept secret - her profile page was sanitized shortly after my wife joined.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Has anybody ever considered that possibility that we will reach an over-saturation of information?
Sometimes its good NOT to know if a restaurant is good or not without visiting. People ARE individuals. We need to ability to make our own decisions about things.
Think about even the difference between my generation (i'm 21) and my parents. My parents had to go out and experience things first hand to get any sort of idea about them. I carry around a nokia 770 with wikipedia on it, and a net connection to wikihow. I can get on google local and read the comments to determine wether I want to go to a club or not. If something doesn't exist to me on google maps, it doesn't exist.
I know, i'm the guilty party here, but this wasn't a conscious decision. I did not come to the realization at some young[er] age that I could either embrace a technologically rich existence, or not.
Imagine what my children will experience, or their children, or their children all the way down. I rapidly see people losing their ability to think independently of their peers. Even the people who consider themselves intellectuals are virtually inable to come up with an original thought.
I completely blame this trend on the availability of information. Believe it or not, there IS such a thing as knowledge being TOO easy to get.
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Privacy is a product of your life, as is your work and other byproducts. In a free market, the products of your life belong to you. This is inherently fair and makes sense.
I trade work hours for money from my employer.
I trade my money for items I want to buy.
I trade certain measures of privacy for social benefits.
I also trade certain measures of privacy for compensation from businesses.
If any of these transactions do not turn out to our mutual benefit, the dissatisfied party is free to discontinue the trade at anytime.
Essentially the government is trying to 'tax' our privacy for 'the greater good', just like they tax our economic transactions... for the 'greater good'.
Political ideologues on both sides of the spectrum don't quite understand this concept - they arbitrarily pick what's right and wrong when it benefits them.
But the smart monkey will realize that the reason people get so upset about these things is that it is inherently unfair to take another's personal products without their consent. Do you own you and your byproducts, or does the "greater good" own you? And how can you trust that the "greater good" is so great and good?
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
I geonanoblog, which is easily a thousand times cooler.
Dude, what the hell happened at 10:15 AM!!??? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
...sometimes, in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies. - PA
I wonder if the anonymous submitter works for Fire Eagle or byNotes, since there's no content to this story but saying how these sites are going to change the world.
What happens when a large number of people who are either directly or indirectly associated with you begin volunteering information that they don't know/think encroaches on your privacy, and may not actually encroach on your privacy, but when aggregated, gives a clear picture of activities that you'd like to avoid making public?
You're new here, aren't you?