This post is not about the house…. its about why there have not been any more posts – or more to the point photos about the house….
I have just been up to Auckland to the National Digtial Forum. Matters shared around the GLAM sector ( galleries, libraries, archives and museums) have convinced me this virtual sharing of memory and experience – eg the flickr Commons - is worthwhile adventure. New knowledge building and real buildings have some interesting parallels worthy of expanding but for now -the main thing I picked up for the purposes of this blog were some tips on nice ways to integrate content.
I’ve been held up on the goal of making out build sharable by technical constraints. Some posts have been drafted and then the frustration of waiting for even the simplest of links to load has thwarted their publication.
Issues are :
- my knowledge of how to make the things that deliver the content work well
- the cumbersome – less than timely- link between the worpress server and my interface.
Solutions include :
- getting the thing hosted on a server closer to home and more specifically tailored to my needs – i wil need to pay for that – thus there really is no such thing as a free share….
- shifting the photstream to a separate thing that is embedded in the blog… monetarily free but maybe not so ‘free’ of cost to my privacy? See below.
- limiting images and links when I post – somewhat defeats the purpose.
I find myself less than able to shed the shackles of cynicism and skepticism about privacy. To do this blog thing – and the flickr sharing etc – one has to be fine about anyone tapping in and extracting whatever about ones life.
Maybe because this project is about my home, my place, that my sensitivity is a bit more acute. I find myself resisting giving out all…I could of course limit the blog to just friends but then that puts them in a position of needing to have memberships if they want to view and I do not wish to request that of them… Back to the open caring and sharing world of Web3.0 (see below) and a suspension of my doubts about what’s crawling around the web…
SO you’ll have to wait until :
1: I have explored what the connection across Flickr and Yahoo … Are we here in NZ subejct to a different relationship with Flickr than its proponents in Aus due to the xtra relation?- thus how ‘common’ is our commons I wonder? Big institutions are not the same os ordinary consumers… they have the luxury of IT managers and firewalls and they have their own rights and privacy policies……
2: I have found the bit in the telecom privacy policy that tells me if they sell my data. So far I have only found the bit that says they can change the policy any time they like but they WILL send me an email to tell me they have done it .. I wonder if that will be before or after they sell me? Yahoo’s is much more overt and clear but says much the same.
3: I have worked out which persona I am going to go to the world with. (interesting discussions on private / public at ndf…)
4: what – if anything – I don’t want to share – with anyone – and where I will keep it?
And the cabbage : Only 1/7 is doing well but I had strawberries from my patch for breakfast this morning.
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What is Web 3.0
But if I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it’s a different way of building applications… My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them… That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing.
