Love/Hate - My ever evolving relationship with the Web

What i love:

That ideas flow fast and furious. It is open. All you need to be involved it a laptop, a connection and imagination and energy.
That people share these ideas and the more you share the more your receive. That there is a community. That authenticity rules.

What i hate:

The flame wars so obviously meant to push eyeballs and get attention. It works, but it gets old pretty fast.

You can find both love and hate in this Gillmor Gang podcast. I love the complexity of how to actually filter twitter. How do you make a firehose manageable for the mass? I hate the way they go about whining at each other like a bunch of high school kids. Its like a bad episode of 90210 meets Intervention.

Posted in by David Usher on January 4, 2009 at 8:43 am

7 Comments »

Comment From Shannon — January 5, 2009 @ 6:16 am

It actually illustrates the filtering conversation they are having perfectly (though likely unintentionally). They are undoubtedly intelligent guys with interesting things to say but I (representing the masses here) couldn’t get past the first 10 minutes and get to the interesting content because of all the annoying noise!

Comment From Brenda Lynn — January 6, 2009 @ 12:09 am

I couldn’t gather the patience to listen to it either.

Comment From yvette — January 6, 2009 @ 1:23 am

Seems to me like they can find something better to do with their time. It’s just plain weird science to me.

Comment From Victoria Bourne — January 12, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

“How do you make a firehose managable to the masses?”

give them all a little piece, they only need concern themselves about their own peace, and when focused on their own peace will naturally flow to and with their own people places and things that belong shared in their own piece. They will know what they need to know when they need to know it and by going with the flow will find it, hense letting go. By finding their peace they live in th3e right place, on time and remember their lines and enjoy the ride.
It’s knowing you are god, letting go of being god, and just enjoying being a little piece trusting everyone else around you to do do their job.
Accepting power, then relinquishing that power and relaxing in your own uniqueness as both creator and witness.

Comment From Kathryn — April 1, 2009 @ 12:48 pm

The interesting thing is how we choose to filter. Do we just use the medium that allows us access to such diversity of thought to validate our own world view or to challenge it? The issues of “too much” shouldn’t be an excuse. Too many people use the filter to live in an echo chamber of their choosing - and use it to validate that “everyone” thinks the way they do.

Comment From Anika — May 29, 2009 @ 12:08 pm

I love te colours and lay out of your blog, i really want to get hold of this theme, what are you using?

Comment From Danny Thompson — January 10, 2010 @ 7:10 am

I actually found parts of this to be pretty interesting. I did fast forward a few times. I’m going to check that blog a bit and see if it catches on with me..

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