Blubs of Verbs, Commentary Comments Off on On Google+ Being Sharing+
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
Many Many articles on Google+ (at Techcrunch.comand ArsTechnica.co ) made me think a bit.
I’ve come to the realization that google+ is the next evolution of sharing+; I mean, email sharing+ (and every thing in between). Seriously, If it were open source, if it worked with Google company profiles, I’d use it as email for a company. It would be awesome. Here’s why:
As much as I think about the authority based access control (I get to control the content posted, what people see, and where people go) possibilities of Google+ let’s be clear about something. It is basically threaded email, which the User controls. It allows the user (me) to limit who sees a post, to stop forwarding, to control commenting, and I can “recall” or delete a message (assuming I don’t send it to the person’s email, and it stays in g+), something that outlook (and every other email on the planet) fails to do. Social, yes, but still, email +. Why is it better than email? I have those same controls over video, pictures, and so on, basically, I have fine grain control over MY content, unlike Facebook or twitter.
OceansOfThought @ August 11, 2011
Life Lessons, Thought Crime Comments Off on On What RPG truely Means
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
RPG. Remember when that used to mean something? Role. Playing. Game. Role playing. Immersive, complete, take over Role. As much as a love a good MMOrpg , and the graphics that come with it, I can’t help but feel, there is something missing. I enjoyed Neverwinter Nights beyond anything I could dream or fathom, and it was so close to perfect I still think about loading it up for another try. Almost everything I wanted to imagine could be done with it. I recreated my greatest characters, DMed games and made items and lands, quests, and even (dare I saw) dropped in few zingers. But…I was missing something… That something about “The time when we [all our characters] were all splayed across the floor, every item used, every potion expended, and T Man stood up.., pointed at our DM and said ‘this is done. I’m rolling a 20.” Stepped back, and opened up the heaven of woop ass.”
OceansOfThought @ June 1, 2010
Blubs of Verbs, Life Lessons Comments Off on On Internet Trolls, and the (Hurt) Masses
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” -Abraham Lincoln
The Masses, those who have come to the internet now, the late adopters have recently run into something us long time users know: their are trolls amung us.
I bring this up because i’m starting to see more and more of these posts. In the NY times, poor Richard made a (Gasp!) comment about Stephen Fry, the British writer, actor and television personality. (he called his tweets boring). The writers and actors of Stargate Universe are actually getting depressed.
These are choice examples, but still, a wave that’s growing. From twitter under the control of it’s user mob. To backlash against something (google wave: at the time) not yet even finalized.
I have something to say to you all, thou i admire you all: “Welcome to the internet. Now ignore the fools on it and go back to doing awesome work.”
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OceansOfThought @ November 2, 2009