Typo? Clown with a cloud? What's clowd?

Some Sun engineers use the term "clowd" internally, and in the way you've assumed: clown+cloud, because they hate the use of the term "cloud" because the term evolved from a time when the cloud drawing surrounded by PCs and servers in diagrams of the Internet kinda implied "we don't really know what goes on in there". And, of course, at Sun, they like to think they do know what goes on inside that Internet "cloud".

Indeed, the owner of clowd.com is a Network Service Manager at Sun.

From TFA:

I guess I was subconsciously coining a new term--which I so rarely do--this time, combining crowd and cloud into something new. I think I like it, even if it is a bit artificial

If you're looking for something along the same lines but not vague and Godin-like, check out:

http://www.amazon.com/Everyware-Dawning-Ubiquitous-Computing...

The problem is that attention is a zero-sum game. If a person doesn't have the time to tag or manipulate his or her photos while producing more and more, what's to say that other people won't all have the same problem?

Are we to believe that for each person who generates 10X as much content there will be that many other "consumer" types that will pick up the slack?

"yes, you will opt in to all of this... you ask before it takes these matchmaking liberties" -- Says who? If the information available computationally increases as this article suggests, it's fantasy to imagine that your current notions of privacy will be respected.

It wasn't as strong an assertion as you made it out to be. Of course you won't be able to opt into being tracked/filmed/panoptified. You'll just opt into the auto-agent features that search out specific relevant information. In other words, although everyone will get to know anything they want, no one will have to know anything they don't want (what my boss did on his vacation to get tanned only on his groin region, for instance.)

It is hard to be enthusiastic about something which encourages the proliferation of god-awful, low-resolution, blurry cell phone snapshots.

He's pushing a P2P benevolent panopticon.

Cellphone jammer = clowd control

crowd+cloud = clowd.

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