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I didn’t like you then
With the nearly ubiquitous spread of Facebook, I have noticed a trend that I do not like, besides the complaints of privacy issues. There were people in my school days that I did not speak to for a reason, the reason being that either I didn’t like them, we didn’t have anything in common or we just didn’t talk.
What I have noticed now is that a whole lot of those people are popping up on Facebook and adding me as their friend, when clearly we are not. I am uncertain how I am supposed to proceed with this I don’t like to offend people and rejecting their friend request might seem like this, but the chances that we will have a conversation is highly unlikely but more over I don’t like them enough for them to view what I am up to on a daily or weekly basis.
So I do what I always do, I sit on it, keeping their friend request pending until I can decide what I feel about them and what I should do, you see I’m not one of those people who have 400+ friends, what I mean by that is I just don’t add people that I have met once or casually know through someone else, that isn’t a friend that’s an acquaintance, in face people like that annoy me, I don’t see why I should be included in such a friend list where all these other people are as well.
Being the noconfrontational person that I am, I suppose that I’ll just add them and throw them the every boring - Hey how’s it going, what are you up to these days. A few messages will pass and then it will all be over for now.
Google warns Aust copyright laws could cripple Internet
What kind of bullshit is this?
Google warns Aust copyright laws could cripple Internet
He says rather than adopting the narrow “fair use” definitions contained in the legislation, Australia should adopt a US-style open-ended fair-use defence to ensure a flow of and access to information.
“In the past when Google has been sued… one of the things it did is take down its links and content,” Dr Rimmer said.
“Google could very well become more reluctant to provide such comprehensive image and news services… and with geo-identification technology you can also offer certain content in some countries and not others.”
I’m probably running my mouth off here again, but it is this kind of stuff that well relegate us even further into the backwaters of the digital age and Internet access.
My Web 2.0 Life
As I involve my self further and further into the Web 2.0 world I find that more of my life is going online, this blog is one example.
I started out reading other blogs, I suppose because I always thought that everyone had an interesting story to tell and I wanted to know about them, after a while I thought that I might give it a go so that I could have somewhere I could express thoughts and some motivation to go out and see the world (Melbourne) and report back. I am slowly finding more and more interest in blogging which in one way or another had lead me to other places online:
Comments
Ever since I started the whole blog thing I have always wanted a better way to keep track of the comments that I have made on other blogs in case there was a response to a questions that I wanted or it turned into a interesting conversation.
I had seen del.icio.us and how it managed bookmarks but I had also seen scuttle and it had the same sort of concept even though it was a little bit late into the game, but the attractive thing to me about scuttle was that it allowed you to download the source and run it on your own servers, which I have done of course. So I have been tracking the comments Read more »
Cross Media Ownership
There are two things that have always worried me: a curry that isn’t spicy and too much power in one place, although the proposed media changes do leave a funny taste in my mouth it’s the second reason that has me concerned more.
I’m rather cynical about most things, it’s the reason that I mainly concern my self with abc radio particularly Triple J and why I love Media Watch, the main thing that irks me about the new cross media ownership legislation is that fact that in the beginning there will be a raft of takeovers and attempted take overs and current big players in the market try to get a foot hold, while this won’t concern the the consumers of the media market it will eventually effect them.
I don’t think that foreign ownership/investment is always bad, business is after all about making money and if there is a market making money, investment will soon follow. What does concern me is the fact that media has proven its self time and again to be such a powerful medium, both with the ability to make certain individuals powerful, a recent occurrence is the event surrounding Jonestown, and to influence opinions, which can be seen around election time when media outlets with ties to certain political parties try to push their own interests and I’m am sure that there are cases around the world where this also holds true. But I do have a problem with foreign ownership in the fact that I am afraid that they might push their own agenda or show reports that they only want us to hear, since we are not really connected to their world it does allow only a few channels for news and media to flow through. Obviously I’m thinking of Rupert Murdoch, Head of News Corp. and former (or current) Australian will be at the forefront trying to buy up some media outlets at least.
New Web Host
I have moved my blog from a server at my place to a hosting provider. I just think that it would be easier, the big reason is that because I run it of the internet connection at my place it was annoying when often my IP would change and updates to the DNS would take a little while. Plus I wasn’t certain that the response time for the server was sufficient enough.
It took my quite some time to migrate all the data across and make sure that it worked the same and waiting a couple of days for the DNS to propagate across the Internet so I could actually access it and make the necessary changes.
But now that has happened I hope to be posting a few more things.
The Debate over Net Neutrality
The Debate over Net Neutrality
I think that it would be pointless to explain my feelings about this topic considering how obious it is that I am totally against what the congress is trying to do.
I will try to expand later on once there has been a decision has been made.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar has finally arrived. I have been wondering when this would happen, I had always seen the yahoo calendar but never really used it and since google has come out with theirs I can give it a go as well.
I don’t think that there is anything special and great about it now, except for a few things that I want to try out, such as being about attach email addresses to events so that people can be reminded if something is coming up, allowing other people to see your calendar and being able to include other people’s calendar into yours, the other big thing that I like is the fact that it’s iCal complient, which means that I be able to view it from my ibook.
I have to say that it does have a few problems at the moment, for some reason sometimes it doesn’t reneder propery with IE but then again I don’t really use IE and normally use firefox which is works for both in windows and apple. Also there is the fact that I’m not located in the U.K or U.S.A so I won’t be able to access the best features such as using the local search for maps, mobile phone notification and such…
I have yet to compare it to yahoo calendar, but since I am such a google fanboy I don’t think I will have to.
last.fm
Today to joined the last.fm community music thing that people seemed to have been talking about it. One of the guys at work showed me what he was using it for and his playlist and I was impressed, so i thought that I should give it ago.
I have added my playlist to the bottom on this front page of this blog, it will probably take a little while for it to populate, but hopefully I will be able to discover some new music through this.
Future of Media
I know that this might not come true, but I found it fascinating non the less.
I thought that the conclusions they draw to be rather commonsense and even if they are a little off course there have been so many changes throughout the internet that no one was able to predict.
Either way there isn’t much more to say about it, besides watching the the presentation.
I am a bit of a google fan, and I would like to believe that google are one of the those companies that make you believe that corporations are capable of the greater good.
Sure they are profit driven but they also put out good products.
Either way I will let you decide.