Re:What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at ...
by dredmorbius on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:13AM
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How many people do you know who have really changed their online behaviour as a response to those revelations?
I'm really not even keeping tabs on that. What I do know is that I'm constantly hearing Snowden discussions in places I wouldn't ordinarily expect to, particularly in mainstream news and business coverage. More than the stories themselves, there's the incidental commentary, that that's definitely slanting toward the "ewww ... creepy" direction rather than "oh! That's so cool!" Look at the response to the Nest acquisition by Google -- a lot of that was negative, based on privacy.
Sharing fatigue (and feed fatigue) is another matter. I never really did the former -- what I post is stuff of intellectual interest (or occasionally things that tickle my funny bone). I've largely rejected social feeds as significant, and have been turning increasingly to RSS, having found some really useful tools: newsbeuter, rsstail, and multitail, all console/terminal utilities, along with Slick RSS (a Chrome extension):
I'm really not even keeping tabs on that. What I do know is that I'm constantly hearing Snowden discussions in places I wouldn't ordinarily expect to, particularly in mainstream news and business coverage. More than the stories themselves, there's the incidental commentary, that that's definitely slanting toward the "ewww ... creepy" direction rather than "oh! That's so cool!" Look at the response to the Nest acquisition by Google -- a lot of that was negative, based on privacy.
Sharing fatigue (and feed fatigue) is another matter. I never really did the former -- what I post is stuff of intellectual interest (or occasionally things that tickle my funny bone). I've largely rejected social feeds as significant, and have been turning increasingly to RSS, having found some really useful tools: newsbeuter, rsstail, and multitail, all console/terminal utilities, along with Slick RSS (a Chrome extension):
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The unbundling strategy sounds interesting. It's also somewhat the opposite direction Google's been going.