Is that it’s a bit like trying to sell blank canvases on the grounds that any canvas could be a Renoir.
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Because media has a flavour
These are two exterior walls. They serve (roughly) the same physical purpose. They live across the street. 52nd street if I remember.
B) is the north side of the brand new redesign of the the NYC MoMA
A) is just another building of another century facing it across the street. Right across the street.
They have a different flavour. In general, all media have a flavour.
By it’s flavour I mean the medium’s idiosyncrasies, it’s accidental memes of little common details, you might call it it’s character. How often do we choose a medium based on it’s flavour? how often do flavours choose us?
Does the character of our age choose our mediums, or do our mediums determine the character of our age?
This is a teaser of sorts. I’ve been thinking about these questions a lot lately. I have a few answers, I believe, the start of which (at least as it may pertain to cities, and open cities) that I plan to bring to OpenCities this Saturday. I hope that you might join me in the conversation there. I guess I should book a slot.
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Collecting a lot of Underpants and the unbundling of social platforms
Dave Winer and Euan Semple are writing about the eventual unbundling of social platforms.
I like this idea that we could all manage our own bundle of apps both social and professional to track our calendars, “buddy” lists, statuses, media habits and etc. etc. yet somehow all of these would stitch together as well, or nearly as well, or even better than they do on facebook but that we wouldn’t have to rely on a single closed platform designed for 23yr olds* to do so.
RSS and openID are somewhere down in the roots of the tools needed, but I think we need tools that take these to higher level of abstraction before we’ll get anywhere.
For example, I see Jaiku [my Jaiku page] taking the first step(s) in this direction. You can feed Jaiku feeds for near every social presence app you can think of from you blog to your status feed to photos and music etc.
As I’ve said Jaiku manages to collect a lot of underpants. But underpants are only half the problem.
(of course we know)
Step one: collect underpants
Step two: ???
Step three: Profit!
So what’s step 2? I think we’re still missing the room that really ties all the rugs together. Even, Dave, the great prognosticator is a little vague “How exactly it will happen is something the historians can argue about 25 years from now. It hasn’t happened yet, but it will, unless the rules of technology evolution have been repealed (and they haven’t, trust me)”
*23yr olds and native English speakers at that
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