Wednesday, April 16, 2003In my News Aggregator a few days ago .. noticed it today !
"Conversations" with Dina is a nice new blog that has been focusing on social networks and metablogging in the recent weeks. I'm sure Marc will like this quote from a recent post titled Why do I blog?:
Do I really need several profiles and identities – a company website, Ryze profile, Ecademy profile …. the list can be endless. Could a blog consolidate all these identities – a one-stop profile – where you see ALL of me – my thoughts and preoccupations – personal and business - a bit of mind and soul?
Through Dina - I've also just discovered Lilia Efimova. Everyone's got to have a Ryze account, be a member of Friendster and put their photos up at Fotolog. I'm also a member of ecademy - but I don't get much flow or interaction from there - yet. Each of these Identity systems serve a different purpose and consist of LOTS of communities within. Certainly equal to one's blogroll.
So the question is: does your blog aggregate all your identity systems, or is there a new kind of "digital lifestyle aggregator" - which connects all these systems together? Or Both? No need to make choices when everything is meshed together.
I've also been following Stuart's blog for a while, and he seems to have done loads of original thinking in this area. ... a recent post Smart Conversational Locator ties in with earlier posts on Identity Circles :
"Marc Canter sums up Ross's post --- what if one tool could enable:
- Personal (private) Networks - are for storing your media, email, IM, your web page and blog and managing your Home LAN. my circle
- Creative (group) Networks (sometimes also called Community or Village) - are (as Ross points out) ideal for collaboration. But also that intimate clustering or people that just feels warma nd fuzzy (I personally think this size can go up to 25 people) our circle
- Social Networks - which can bloom into Political Networks - are all really part of an open ended public kind of community - are the metaphor for communication, publishing and all things interactive. many circles?
My "red" thinking Identity Circles. Could it be called my profile? Could I own it? Could it travels in circles approved by me? Would it is expand and grow cooperatively and collaboratively?
Would it be a form of SMART CONVERSATIONAL LOCATOR? If so it needs better treatment than my e-mail phone number and home mailbox. I hope it manages my attention at my command rejecting unwarranted intrusions while constantly nurturing the types of exchanges my friends and I respond to where ever I may be. "
Now these are terrific thoughts .... call them what you will .. Digital Lifestyle Aggregator or Smart Conversational Locator or simply Circles - while the benefits would be many, am not really sure how they would work (no tools guy here Marc !). I can only imagine how these sorts of social networking tools could work so well with youth, families, communities of all kinds, and even within business organizations.
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