Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
wrote:

> Anton Chuvakin to Rob Slade:
>
> > That totally misses the "key point 2.0" :-) - all the above can be
> > linked together, thus reducing if not removing the fragmentation.
> > E.g. FB status updates from Twitter, blog summary to Facebook  +
> > Twitter, etc, etc.
>
> Ummmm -- let me check I got this right...
>
> You're saying we're better off reducing fragmentation by increasing
> redundancy?
>
> Doesn't that mean we'd all be better off with several Twitter accounts
> each, each signed up to a different mobile number (one for each pocket
> perhaps?) and each following the same group of twits?
>
> Excellent!
>
> I think I now understand why this is so popular with the ADHD/ADD
> generation...

Indeed.

In fact, this segues into another topic that is my list of "holy jihads",
and that is that we (not us, per se, but the Internet industry at-large) is
basically training the consumer legions to allow themselves to be
exploited.

Example number one: AJAX-enabled, "feature-rich Web 2.0" content websites,
powered by JavaScript.

Example number two: "Opt-out cookies". This one drives me nuts, because it
is so brain-damaged. To accept the whole notion of "opt-out cookies"
requires one to accept long-lived cookies in, and of, itself. A privacy
nightmare.

Of course, there are plenty of other examples, but you get my drift.

Along these lines fall Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, and other consumer
tar-babies which are just ripe for the exploitation.

I've said too much already...

- - ferg


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