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no1 wrote:I'm breaking anything with my scrotum.
HiddenIdentity wrote:
He's Iron Man!
dontwantaname wrote:I like to eat things that are already dead.
Josephus wrote:I get sores in my mouth
no1 wrote:Eh? What's wrong? I must have scrotal cancer.
kenney9226 wrote:I am an almost hero for being able to do ... my coworker's boss!
dontwantaname wrote:I don't think Josephus has that big a *****. I've seen a few pictures.
zea3 wrote:Its fun ... All you need is scotch tape, trash bags..., and surgical gloves.
And adult diapers if you work for NASA ...
daj59 wrote:I'm easy
no1 wrote:more fun if it's against their will.
cruzer wrote:like you have any.
cruzer wrote: I'm hoping to have one by the end of July, and there's not a huge selection
stlwooter wrote: paid for
no1 wrote: Cyberpub. As always, I am culturally challenged.
dontwantaname wrote:I was odd.
Schrobblehead wrote:You have the most interesting bathroom experiences.
killingtime wrote:Kinda gross. ... I should have just used the cool whip & raspberries.
cruzer wrote:holy damn, if it wasn't so damn expensive, I'd be all over that.
no1 wrote:What can I get for $7?
cruzer wrote: I'm getting it. no telling when it will happen though. It'll happen some time.
cruzer wrote: it's supposed to be a yearly thing
Josephus wrote:the key for me seems to be pulling really slowly.
no1 wrote:I googled "beer enema" and, indeed, there are links there, which I will...follow to find out more.
AZGman wrote:I've never seen any of her . . .
cruzer wrote: I don't really have a reason.
PemberDucky wrote:You always know just what I need.
Schrobblehead wrote:I'm in. That sounds like the most fun party I've been to since I held my Al Gore
no1 wrote:
He's so doughy and soft. It's like hugging a down pillow.
cruzer wrote:I actually want to see one pulled out, does it leave a hole?
Schrobblehead wrote:I'm much bigger than... two inches.
I'm probably going to regret ever getting involved with this thread.
eHalcyon wrote: See the caffeine-awake stare in their eyes?..... I do...bunny...in the mouth... ...I think the mouth...has been waiting a couple of weeks... Your cat and my bunnies should get together sometime... on the street.
Once you've posted in here you're pretty much stuck.
no1 wrote:...lay...my Buttfingerer.
Schrobblehead wrote:You just have to jump in swinging. Most of us are extremely sophisticated in swinging.
no1 wrote: lay a finger on my Butt.
PemberDucky wrote:pop in whenever you can.
Schrobblehead wrote:I've been cutting back myself. I do get on once in a while if I'm really bored.
kenney9226 wrote:The last place I worked that had windows also had drug dealers, pimps, and hookers ... You may think I am kidding but really I am not making that up.
Josephus wrote:"There's no point in testing you- this is as classic a case as any I've ever seen."
daj59 wrote:make sure it's short enough so it doesnt' go around his neck...Only had to show him once or twice how to get it in himself.
PemberDucky wrote:Hai I'm here for the pr0n?
stlwooter wrote:Ah, discovered a new scream today. much more piercing than her standard one... What fun. First time doing it single w/out mrs stl.
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Banker Joel C. Clements of Waynesboro has been elected chairman of the Mississippi Bankers Association for 2010-2011. Clements is chairman of the board, president and CEO of Waynesboro-based First State Bank. Carl J. Chaney of Gulfport was elected vice chairman. He is president and CEO of Gulfport-based Hancock Bank. The association's new treasurer is H. […] [...]


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Boring article, as all the economist's articles about Russia. Prejudice, lack of understanding, ghosts of cold war and propaganda that grew so huge that it transformed to reality in western heads.
Putin is our president. period.
Putin is running your country into the ground - and you are getting upset because a magazine has said so.
I would worry more about Russian life expectancy being 10 years lower than Western Europe - or whether you really live in a democracy or not.


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Hospitals have a noble mission to care for the sick, treat the injured and bring new babies into the world.
But the healthcare facilities also have a long history as top garbage producers, generating vast amounts of paper, plastic, food and toxic waste that end up clogging landfills.
Over the past decade, the industry has made great strides in reversing its unhealthy impact on the environment. In 1998, the American Hospital Association set goals to reduce hospital waste by 50 percent by 2010.
Ahead of schedule, Cottage met the AHA goal: Reducing hospital landfill waste by 50%. Now the City goal is within reach.
Cottage Health System has achieved that goal in just eight years, through the efforts of environmentally-conscious employees who have made it their passion to create "a greener Cottage."
The goal of a greener Cottage is to improve health services and administrative practices in an ecologically sustainable manner, without lowering patient safety or care standards.
One of the biggest impacts on the environment is trash going into landfills. All across the nation, landfills are reaching their limits for holding garbage. In the Santa Barbara area, the Tajiguas Landfill is expected to reach maximum capacity by 2020 and will be closed.
Eight years ago, the City of Santa Barbara realized that it needed to change its waste disposal habits quickly, because city residents were sending 70 percent of all garbage to the landfill. Only 30 percent of waste was being recycled.
The City set a goal to reverse those numbers: the aim was to reduce landfill waste to 30 percent and to increase recycling to 70 percent. Cottage has this ambitious goal within its reach. After working for years to pump up recycling, Cottage significantly reduced its solid waste. In 2009, only 35 percent of its waste was sent to the landfill.
Recycling at Cottage increased by tenfold over the last decade—from 82,000 pounds recycled in 2000 to nearly 1 million pounds last year.
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The biggest impact in keeping waste out of the landfills came from recycling all of the cardboard boxes and packaging that piled up at the hospital daily from shipments of supplies, food and other items. By working closely with vendors and suppliers, Cottage has been able to reduce waste.
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Cottage now composts about 7,500 pounds of food waste per month, with nearly 90,000 pounds composted last year. This is the equivalent of 24cars being taken off the road, according to the City's environmental analysts.
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Most people use the term "shoplifting". Michigan law calls it "retail fraud".
Retail fraud includes stealing merchandise from a store when it is open for business, switching price tags, and returning stolen merchandise. In instances of theft, the defendant does not have to leave the store itself or the store's property: passing all points of purchase without attempting to pay may be sufficient to prove the required intent to steal.
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An Eaton County business that is the victim of a retail fraud files a formal complaint with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office. The Economic Crimes Unit (ECU) uses the following guidelines to determine eligibility of participants:
- The case must involve theft of less than $200 (Retail Fraud 3rd Degree);
- The participant did not fight, struggle or resist police or store employees;
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Too cold to play outside with the grandkids? How about a fun new board game – like the Carcassonne board game? My grandchildren and I love it!
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Isn't this a great quote for multigenerational caregivers! (Not to mention busy grandparents, REALTORS, etc. :) )
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you." ― Mother Teresa ...
Fun ideas for grandparents and grandkids from Grandma's Briefs - to which I'd add a couple more - we used to do penny walks when my kids were young. Every time we came to an end of the block, we flipped a coin. Heads we went straight, tails we turned. Flip again and heads we go left and tails we go right.
We also loved to collect leaves, prickly balls, helipcopter leaves, etc. for fun and easy crafts and projects for the kids AND the sweet seniors who loved them.
Now it's your turn. Can you think of more fun ideas and share them as well. Wonder how many we can collect on the way :)
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Awwww, I have long appreciated Steven Curtis Chapman's ministry and this song was very encouraging to me today- including the second ending (don't miss it). And then I read the update below - he just became a grandpa! Making this doubly sweet, along with his sweet words of encouragement.
I hope and pray you are as blessed as I was in reading AND listening to this :) ...
Hey there friends…it's been too long! So quick update for those interested…I'm currently on The Bible Tour with Brandon Heath, Francesca Battistelli and Danny Gokey…all amazing artists and even more amazing people! I've really enjoyed being with these guys (and gal) as well as my band and great crew of folks out here "making it happen" every night. And yet, as wonderful as these folks are, I really miss my family and my "home" right now. And on top of missing my bride and my girls I'm particularly sad to be away because my family has just added a new member who is one of the most amazing, handsome, coolest and brilliant (I can tell by lookin'…trust me, he's a genius!) little men ever to arrive on the planet. His name is Noble Day Chapman, and he is my (first!) Grandson…you may've already seen a picture of him on Facebook! My son Caleb and his wife Julia presented him to us on April 15th and Mary Beth and I are very grateful! So, I thought in honor of his arrival I'd share a little "musical gift" to you, my friends, as well as a little bit of what's been "runnin' thru my head" these last few days. Psalm 27:13 is one of those verses of scripture that I have held on to like a life line, especially on the darkest days after our little girl Maria went to heaven. I particularly love the New King James Version which states it this way: "I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." The NASB version says it like this; "I would've despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." There were many times I can remember thinking, "okay, by faith I'm gonna hold on to the promise that when I finally see Maria's face again and the face of Jesus, He will wipe every tear from our eyes like He promised and then I will be able to "taste and see that the Lord is good". But in many of the darkest moments it was hard to ever imagine having a sense of joy and the "goodness of the Lord" again in the land of the living…here on earth. And then I'd read that verse again and pray, "God don't let me lose heart or despair, I believe (help my unbelief) that I will taste and see your goodness again this side of heaven too, even as I am waiting for the day to come when I finally realize fully and completely just how good and great you truly are." It was, and sometimes still is "3 steps forward and 2 steps back", as I continue on my journey of learning to trust and rest in God's promises. But God has continued to prove to be faithful, and particularly in these last 3 years as He has given me (and Mary Beth) 3 very tangible expressions of His goodness and His beauty. He has blessed us with 3 "fearfully and wonderfully knit together" little people (my Granddaughters Eiley and Della and Grandson Noble) to celebrate new beginnings and make new memories with. Ask any Grandparent, having those little ones come into your life is really really GOOD…on so many levels. Little living breathing reminders that God really is making all things new! And of course, you don't have to wait for Grandchildren to experience God's "goodness in the land of the living"…that's just one of the ways my family and I have experienced it most profoundly in these recent days. So there ya go… I wanted to share that with you with the hope that it encourages you wherever you may be on your own journey. I have a song on my Glorious Unfolding album called Something Beautiful that came from some of those same places in my journey, wondering how in the world God is going to take the ugly jagged pieces of life that seems to have been shattered by circumstances and turn them into something good and even make something beautiful out of them. Well, in honor of the arrival of our new little Something Beautiful (okay, sorry Noble…Something Handsome!) my band and I got put together a little "live version" of the song to share with you. Live from the "choir robe room" at Jacksonville First Baptist Church…here's Something Beautiful. Oh, by the way…there's an "alternate ending" after the song that you might want to watch for…this one is especially for our little Noble-man! (someday he'll appreciate it I hope...and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna live to regret it!) So Enjoy! Blessings, scc
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Phoronix: A New Game Ported To Run On Wayland/Weston
A new open-source game (actually, two games) have been ported to run on Wayland without a dependence on X11...
i though its just a matter of pressing poop on the compile button and the new gtk/qt will take care of everything. i don't buy that. it'll probably be an arduous journey in porting many x11 apps, especially since most FOSS projects are basically in penury.
It depends on how your application is written. If you use x11 apis directly then of course your porting would be more tedious than if you strictly use say GTK+, Qt, EFL etc... As long the abstraction layer/toolkit you use supports Wayland then you shouldn't have any Wayland issues to worry about when porting. Of course you will need to update your application to work with the version of the toolkit that supports Wayland.
So, when will AMD support Wayland?
Aaah Neverball. I wasted so many hours on you. Finished every damn level but the last... and then 1.5 came along, which totally changed the level categories and reset my progress.
Quite right. Only the latest toolkits (GTK+3, Qt5, EFL) will be ported to Wayland. Old toolkits, which many programs still depend on (GTK+2, Qt4, and such) will have to run via XWayland. Exception is SDL which will probably gain Wayland support in both SDL and SDL2.
Programs that do not use the Wayland-native toolkits will have to be either ported to another toolkit, or run on XWayland. The difficulties are for programs that use no toolkits at all and speak directly to X11, which have to be rewritten to speak the Wayland protocol instead.
Of course, Mir (needlessly) complicates things even further...


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As Central American child migrant flows have returned to their precrisis level, challenges remain concerning the fate of tens of thousands of newly arrived children and families now residing in the United States pending immigration court hearings. Meanwhile, Congress has declined to authorize new funding to address the situation.
Between 1960 and 2012 the share of Canadians in the U.S. foreign-born population declined from 10 to 2 percent, while the actual number of Canadian immigrants has remained remarkably steady. Using the most up-to-date statistics, this profile examines the Canadian immigrant population by size, age, location, college education, and more.
Central American migrants have long hopped freight trains known as "La Bestia," or the beast, to get through Mexico en route to the United States. While Mexico has been accused of turning a blind eye to this traffic, U.S. outcry over the surge of unaccompanied child migrants has drawn new attention to the use of the trains. This article highlights the journey aboard the trains, the dangers faced by migrants, and responses by the Mexican government and others.
The once-tiny population of Vietnamese immigrants in the United States has grown to become the country's sixth largest foreign-born group in the span of several decades, with the first wave beginning at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This data profile examines the Vietnamese immigrant population by size, recency of arrival, top states and cities of settlement, college education, sending of remittances, and much more.
This panel discussion focuses on the circulation of skilled immigrant professionals and the recognition of foreign qualifications in the United States and Europe.
The winners of the Migration Policy Institute's 2013 E Pluribus Unum Prizes, honoring exceptional immigrant integration initiatives in the United States, discuss their work at an award ceremony on December 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.
The 10th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference featured keynotes by U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, as well as panel discussions covering a range of key immigration topics.
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Streams of Content, Limited Attention
In his seminal pop-book, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of "flow." He talks about performers and athletes who are in the height of their profession, the experience they feel as time passes by and everything just clicks. People reach a state where attention appears focused and, simultaneously, not in need of focus at the same time. The world is aligned and everything just feels right.
Consider what it means to be "in flow" in an information landscape defined by networked media, and you will see where Web 2.0 is taking us. The goal is not to be a passive consumer of information or to simply tune in when the time is right, but rather to live in a world where information is everywhere. To be peripherally aware of information as it flows by, grabbing it at the right moment when it is most relevant, valuable, entertaining, or insightful. Living with, in, and around information. Most of that information is social information, but some of it is entertainment information or news information or productive information. Being in flow with information is different than Csikszentmihalyi's sense, as it's not about perfect attention, but it is about a sense of alignment, of being aligned with information.
As of late, we've been talking a lot about content streams, streams of information. This metaphor is powerful. The idea is that you're living inside the stream: adding to it, consuming it, redirecting it. The stream metaphor is about reaching flow. It's also about restructuring the ways in which information flows in modern society.
Those who are most enamored with services like Twitter talk passionately about feeling as though they are living and breathing with the world around them, peripherally aware and in-tune, adding content to the stream and grabbing it when appropriate. This state is delicate, plagued by information overload and weighed down by frustrating tools.
For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes? While things are certainly clunky at best, this is the promise land of the technologies we're creating. This is all happening because of how our information society is changing. But before we talk more about flow, we need to step back and talks about shifts in the media landscape.
From Broadcast to Networked
For the last few centuries, we have been living in an era of broadcast media, but we have been switching to an era of networked media. This fundamentally alters the structure by which information flows.
Those who believe in broadcast structures recognize the efficiency of a single, centralized source. There's some nostalgia here. The image is clear: 1950s nightly news, everyone tuning in to receive the same message at the same time. There are the newspapers, the radio stations, the magazines—all telling the same news-y story. Centralized sources of information are powerful because they control the means of distribution. There is also the town gossip, the church, and the pub. These too were centralized channels for disseminating information.
Broadcast media structures take one critical thing for granted: attention. There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity, even though that was never true in the first place. As TV channels and publishing brands proliferated, we've seen that attention can easily be fragmented. Over the last few decades, increasing numbers of entities have been fighting for a smaller and smaller portion of the pie. Even gossip rags started competing for attention.
The opportunities for media creation have been rising for decades, but the Internet provided new mechanisms through which people could make their own content available. From blogging to social network sites to media sharing sites to sites that provide social streams, we are seeing countless ways in which a motivated individual can make their personal content available. There were always folks willing to share their story but the Internet gave them a pulpit on which to stand.
Internet technologies are fundamentally dismantling and reworking the structures of distribution. Distribution is a process by which content creators find channels through which they can disseminate their creation. In effect, they're pushing out the content. Sure, people have to be there to receive it, but the idea is that there are limited channels for distribution and thus getting access to this limited resource is hard. That is no longer the case.
As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get content to anyone else. With the barriers to distribution collapsing, what matters is not the act of distribution, but the act of consumption. Thus, the power is no longer in the hands of those who control the channels of distribution, but those who control the limited resource of attention. This is precisely why YOU were Time magazine's the Person of the Year in 2006. Your attention is precious and valuable. It's no longer about push; it's about pull. And the "Law of Two Feet" is now culturally pervasive.
While we're dismantling traditional structures of distribution, we're also building out new forms of information dissemination. Content is no longer being hocked, but links are. People throughout the network are using the attention they receive to traffic in pointers to other content, serving as content mediators. Numerous people have become experts as information networkers.
To many people, this seems like old news. Isn't that the whole point of Web 2.0? Isn't that what we've been living? Sure, of course. But now that we're seeing Web 2.0 go mainstream, we're seeing all sorts of folks get into the game. What they're doing often looks different than what early adopters were doing. And the business folks are all trying to turn the Internet into a new broadcast channel (don't worry, they're failing). But we need to talk about these shifts so we can talk about what innovation needs to happen.
If folks are going to try to get in-flow with information, we need to understand how information flows differently today. Let me highlight four challenges, points where technological hope and reality collide.
Four Core Issues
1) Democratization. Switching from a model of distribution to a model of attention is disruptive, but it is not inherently democratizing. This is a mistake we often make when talking about this shift. We may be democratizing certain types of access, but we're not democratizing attention. Just because we're moving towards a state where anyone has the ability to get information into the stream does not mean that attention will be divided equally. Opening up access to the structures of distribution is not democratizing when distribution is no longer the organizing function.
Some people might immediately think, "Ah, but it's a meritocracy. People will give their attention to what is best!" This too is mistaken logic. What people give their attention to depends on a whole set of factors that have nothing to do with what's best. At the most basic level, consider the role of language. People will pay attention to content that is in their language, even if they can get access to content in any language. This means Chinese language content will soon get more attention than English content, let alone Dutch or Hebrew content.
2) Stimulation. People consume content that stimulates their mind and senses. That which angers, excites, energizes, entertains, or otherwise creates an emotional response. This is not always the "best" or most informative content, but that which triggers a reaction.
This isn't inherently a good thing. Consider the food equivalent. Our bodies are programmed to consume fat and sugars because they're rare in nature. Thus, when they come around, we should grab them. In the same way, we're biologically programmed to be attentive to things that stimulate: content that is gross, violent, or sexual and that gossip which is humiliating, embarrassing, or offensive. If we're not careful, we're going to develop the psychological equivalent of obesity. We'll find ourselves consuming content that is least beneficial for ourselves or society as a whole.
We are addicted to gossip for a reason. We want to know what's happening because such information brings us closer to people. When we know something about someone, there's a sense of connection. But the information ecology we live in today has twisted this whole thing upside down. Just because I can follow the details of Angelina Jolie's life doesn't mean she knows I exist. This is what scholars talk about as parasocial relations. With Facebook, you can turn your closest friends into celebrities, characters you gawk at and obsess over without actually gaining the benefits of social intimacy and bonding.
Stimulation creates cognitive connections. But it is possible for there to be too much stimulation. We don't want a disconnected, numb society, nor a society of unequal social connections. So driving towards greater and more intense stimulation may not be what we want.
Of course, there's money here and people will try to manipulate this dynamic for their own purposes. There are folks who put out highly stimulating content or spread gossip to get attention. And often they succeed, creating a pretty unhealthy cycle. So we have to start asking ourselves what balance looks like and how we can move towards an environment where there are incentives for consuming healthy content that benefit individuals and society as a whole. Or, at the very least, how not to feed the trolls.
3) Homophily. In a networked world, people connect to people like themselves. What flows across the network flows through edges of similarity. The ability to connect to others like us allows us to flow information across space and time in impressively new ways, but there's also a downside.
Prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power are all baked into our networks. In a world of networked media, it's easy to not get access to views from people who think from a different perspective. Information can and does flow in ways that create and reinforce social divides. Democratic philosophy depends on shared informational structures, but the combination of self-segmentation and networked information flow means that we lose the common rhetorical ground through which we can converse.
Throughout my studies of social media, I have been astonished by the people who think that XYZ site is for people like them. I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men. I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of the profiles they saw contained biblical quotes. We all live in our own worlds with people who share our values and, with networked media, it's often hard to see beyond that.
Ironically, the one place where I'm finding people are being forced to think outside their box is the Trending Topics on Twitter. Consider a topic that trended a while ago: #thingsdarkiessay. Started in South Africa, this topic is fundamentally about language and cultural diversity but, when read in a U.S.-context, it reads as fundamentally racist. Boy did this blow up, forcing a lot of folks to think about language and cultural differences. Why? Because Trending Topics brings a topic that gained traction in a segment of the network to broader awareness, often out of context. Unfortunately, it's hard to get meaningful dialogue going once a Trending Topic triggers reactions.
In an era of networked media, we need to recognize that networks are homophilous and operate accordingly. Technology does not inherently disintegrate social divisions. In fact, more often then not, in reinforces them. Only a small percentage of people are inclined to seek out opinions and ideas from cultures other than their own. These people are and should be highly valued in society, but just because people can be what Ethan Zuckerman calls "xenophiles" doesn't mean they will be.
4) Power. When we think about centralized sources of information distribution, it's easy to understand that power is at stake. But networked structures of consumption are also configured by power and we cannot forget that or assume that access alone is power. Power is about being able to command attention, influence others' attention, and otherwise traffic in information. We give power to people when we give them our attention and people gain power when they bridge between different worlds and determine what information can and will flow across the network.
In a networked culture, there is also power in being the person spreading the content. When my colleagues and I were examining retweets in Twitter, we saw something fascinating: a tension between citationality and attribution. In short, should you give credit to the author of the content or acknowledge the person through whom you learned of the information? Instinctually, many might believe that the author is the most important person to credit. But, few ideas are truly the product of just one individual. So why not credit the messenger who is helping the content flow? We found that reasonable people disagreed about what was best.
In a broadcast model, those who control the distribution channels often profit more than the creators. Think: Clear Channel, record labels, TV producers, etc. Unfortunately, there's an assumption that if we get rid of limitations to the means of distribution, the power will revert to the creators. This is not what's happening. Distribution today is making people aware that they can come and get something, but those who get access to people's attention are still a small, privileged few.
Instead, what we're seeing a new type of information broker emerge. These folks get credit for their structural position. While the monetary benefits are indirect, countless consulting gigs have arisen for folks based on their power as information brokers. The old controllers of information are losing their stature (and are not happy about it). What's emerging is not inherently the power of the creators, but the power of the modern-day information brokers.
Making It Work
As our information ecosystem evolves, we will see some radical changes take place. First, I believe that information spaces will get more niche. We will see evidence of this in the ways people direct their attention, and also in what new enterprises are succeeding. Successful businesses will not be everything to everyone; that's the broadcast mentality. Instead, they will play a meaningful role to a cohort of committed consumers who give their attention to them because of their relevance.
To be relevant today requires understanding context, popularity, and reputation. In the broadcast era, we assumed the disseminator organized information because they were a destination. In a networked era, there will be no destination, but rather a network of content and people. We cannot assume that content will be organized around topics or that people will want to consume content organized as such. We're already seeing this in streams-based media consumption. When consuming information through social media tools, people consume social gossip alongside productive content, news alongside status updates. Right now, it's one big mess. But the key is not going to be to create distinct destinations organized around topics, but to find ways in which content can be surfaced in context, regardless of where it resides.
Making content work in a networked era is going to be about living in the streams, consuming and producing alongside "customers." Consuming to understand, producing to be relevant. Content creators are not going to get to dictate the cultural norms just because they can make their content available; they are still accountable to those who are trafficking content.
We need technological innovations. For example, tools that allow people to more easily contextualize relevant content regardless of where they are and what they are doing and tools that allow people to slice and dice content so as to not reach information overload. This is not simply about aggregating or curating content to create personalized destination sites. Frankly, I don't think this will work. Instead, the tools that consumers need are those that allow them to get into flow, that allow them to live inside information structures wherever they are, whatever they're doing. The tools that allow them to easily grab what they need and stay peripherally aware without feeling overwhelmed.
Finally, we need to rethink our business plans. I doubt this cultural shift will be paid for by better advertising models. Advertising is based on capturing attention, typically by interrupting the broadcast message or by being inserted into the content itself. Trying to reach information flow is not about being interrupted. Advertising does work when it's part of the flow itself. Ads are great when they provide a desirable answer to a search query or when they appear at the moment of purchase. But when the information being shared is social in nature, advertising is fundamentally a disruption.
Figuring out how to monetize sociality is a problem, and not one that's new to the Internet. Think about how we monetize sociality in physical spaces. Typically, it involves second-order consumption of calories. Venues provide a space for social interaction to occur and we are expected to consume to pay rent. Restaurants, bars, cafes… they all survive on this model. But we have yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol.
As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to a networked one, we will continue to see reworking of the information landscape. Some of what is unfolding is exciting, some is terrifying. The key is not be all utopian or dystopian about it, but to recognize what changes and what stays the same. The future of Web 2.0 is about information flow and if you want to help people, help them reach that state.
This article is based on a talk I gave at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo last November. This could not have been written if it weren't for an inspiring conversation with Dan Gillmor.
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The comment that stands out to me the most here is from Joshua about a year ago. It is amazing to me how some 'creative' companies have their employees work within such tightened creative realms. You make a very good point Joshua.
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I'm doing research for the Next Generation Learning Challenges' which is geared toward dramatically improving college readiness and completion through the applied use of Web 2.0 technology. Being in flow with information is a key factor to student success. I see how this ties into "Making Your Mark" by Mark Frazier. I found this helpful and insightful.
Much as I respect danah's work and her insights most of the time, this article doesn't do it for me.
Patching together a series of long-standing observations and controversies and then presenting this as a general theory of life within information environments doesn't advance our understanding of life or of information environments, though it's a great pep talk to get back in there and discover the true meaning of communication.
Csikszentmihalyi's theory of "flow" was profound when first enunciated -- it confirmed for many of us the sensation of personal progress, that it wasn't a will o'the wisp -- and it remains profound. This article was interesting as a window to what danah considers important socially, but it isn't profound.
Absolutely tremendous piece in so many ways. I'm putting it up on Facebook and Twitter immediately. ;)
enjoyable article Danah.
i like the use of examples in it, in particular one near the end about monetizing sociality. recently i mashed up an image to give an illustration of the same thing, you can see the basic idea here.
You need the Semantic Web!
This is an interesting subject because a lot of software user assistance (online Help, Support lines) interrupt the flow you talk about. The Semantic Web offers some hope for embedding assistance into the flow.
Where do content curators come in? Within specific niches, I'm guessing they will have a growing role, it can't all be about technology.
My hope is that one day, more companies will realize the importance of letting their employees creativity flow.
Great post. I believe that the holy grail to empower many things you are talking about is context. However, context today is confined to siloed sites. The key is contexting people as a whole, and not singular interactions, and then matching contextification of interactions, context based content matching and up to context matching of ads and creating whole context based food chains I call contextonomics. in http://www.icentered.com/contextonomics.
This however calls for paradigm shifts that will put each of us at the center, with the wheel in our hands and allow user side full contextification, full data and profile ownership, handling exposure, sharing, pulling and becoming an equal partner in food chains around that person's context, which will become an alternative currency.
The technologies missing to allow context based economy that empowers ROA (return on attention) is a universal contextification layer and an objective measuring for subjective context affinities
My guess is that the "digital equivalent of alcohol" will emerge with tools that let people:
- define deep values and project aims (in civic, business, and/or personal frames of reference), and
- set out "standing offers" of attention, in-kind help, or other gifts or trades they are interested in making to advance these aims.
Access to the deeper values/project maps could be expanded as the transaction-level interactions build trust relationships. Whaboo.com uses games to foster person-to-person understanding and promote this unveiling.
A metasystem for trust-building via karma points would be ideal for expanding access to the deeper level(s). Karma points might be earned through mutual feedback in person-person interactions via the surface-level standing offers. They could also be earned through well-regarded acts of giving (content-creating or connective) in a broader context, for communities of the individual's choosing.
With these pieces in place, we might see a broadening of surface-level exchanges that can progress to deeply aligned relationshps. The trust springing from this process in turn could expand participants' willingness to delegate resources and commitments to others included in their social trustnet ("extended self"), speeding the ability of the social web to turn shared visions into action.
Mark Frazier
Great post, danah. This post validates what I have been seeing for a while: on the web it is all about content streams. The days of creating a good web site as the centerpiece of your message is long gone. We must now focus on getting into people's "streams". How do we do it? What strategies work best? I just blogged about this earlier this week.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to more posts on this topic.


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