On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Pat Rapp <[email protected]> wrote:
> What’s interesting and exciting about these new technology formats is > watching the way people use them. You can easily spot a newb by their tweets > describing their lunch or their trivial (let’s face it – boring) statements > about the minutiae of their lives. When it gets interesting and useful is > when people start using twitter for coolhunting – quickly scanning tweets > for cool and emerging technology and science information. > Agreed. Same on Face Book. I don't look anymore at walls that talk about baking cookies. > > > In a nutshell: > > I use Digsby to allow twitter to provide tiny little pop-ups on the bottom > of my screen. I follow about 100-150 people whose tweets are valid in my > work/hobbies/etc. The tweets give just enough info on the topic for me to > decide if it’s worth my time to click on the link in the tweet. I get way > more info this way than I ever did reading online magazines or even through > RSS feeds. And things spread quickly. (Example: I’d heard that Mandelbrot > died at least a full day before CNN posted it.) Also, everyone has varied > interests. When you start following people whose work fascinates you, you > start connecting dots all over the place and seeing opportunities to take > two diverse ideas and merge them together. > I can see where this would be immensely useful. Creativity can be enhanced. Participatory culture, participatory culture.......... > > > > > -- > > *Also, because it's easier to sell and monetize, which means that there > will be more commercial augmented reality options. Hell, there are more * > now*. See: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/14/augmented-reality > [courtesy > pat] Augmented reality is bundled with every smartphone sold in America. > People use it every day without knowing that's what they're doing, and > that's when you've really got a paradigm shift on your hands: when people > don't think what they're doing is anything special. > On the other hand: this is immensely interesting but I wonder just how many more car crashes we'll have because of the bombardment of information in front of our eyes. Texting while driving is already a problem. I think it will be a survival of the fittest: our brains will have to adapt to our technology. Me, I don't multitask very well. I move from one intense passion to the next and until I've entirely exhausted a medium I find it hard to bear distraction. That's just the way I'm wired. Twitter would drive me mad. (Actually, I have about 800 unread messages in gmail) > Take Facebook, for example: Most people who use it don't think about it, > it's just a more or less unquestioned part of their lives. Twitter I think > is probably similar, though it's a bit harder for me to wrap my mind around. > People just use these things, they don't think much about it, and the things > can integrate into the daily life they already have. On SL, you have to find > ways to bring the outside in; with "web 2.0" and augmented reality, it's > already part of the outside -- the harder thing is figuring out how to do > without it. > Yes, SL is isolated. Even though it has myriad worlds inside it that address the special interests of many people (poetry, science fiction, detective novels, steampunk, Gorean culture, Victoriana, consciousness awareness and fund raising for AIDS, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, "virtual abilities", artist colonies, filmmakers), these things are more usefully addressed by people outside SL. However, a lot of the SLers are familiar with AR and use it extensively. A lot of them, too, are computer geeks, gamers, and code writers. Sarah > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
