Compete CEO: ISPs Sell Clickstreams For $5 A Month – Seeking Alpha:
> The Open Data morning session ended with a general consensus that consumers would be surprised and outraged by the amount of online data that is being collected, stored, and sold – and that sooner or later some smart journalist will pretend to discover this secret and trigger a consumer firestorm.
Not surprising, but somewhat creepy. Also very relevant to Mary Hodder’s comments on our panel at SXSW last weekend (about which I’ll post more soon).
(via George Kelly)
Liz Lawley on 'why twitter matters'
· The Power of Manymamamusings: why twitter matters:
>But asking “who really cares about that kind of mindless trivia about your day” misses the whole point of presence. This isn’t about conveying complex theory–it’s about letting the people in your distributed network of family and friends have some sense of where you are and what you’re doing. And we crave this, I think. When I travel, the first thing I ask the kids on the phone when I call home is “what are you doing?” Not because I really care that much about the show on TV, or the homework they’re working on, but because I care about the rhythms and activities of their days. No, most people don’t care that I’m sitting in the airport at DCA, or watching a TV show with my husband. But the people who miss being able to share in day-to-day activity with me–family and close friends–do care.
Read the whole thing™.
MyBlogLog is looking for a community manager
· User Experience, Web GossipIf you’re an experienced blogger in the Bay Area and would like to work for a cool startup recently acquired by Yahoo!, in Berkeley, then you may want to apply for this new community manager role: The MyBlogLog Blog: Seeking: MyBlogLog uber-user for long-term relationship
They seem to grok the Craig Newmark idea that customer service is a key part of growing their business.
See me speak at South by Southwest
· Events
In March I’ll be moderating a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, called “Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence, and Reputation Online.”
Confirmed panelists include George Kelly, Kaliya Hamlin, Ted Nadeau, and Mary Hodder.
I’m anticipating a lively dialogue tackling how we project and define our identities online, what it means to be present when you are physically remote, and how reputations are earned and maintained in an attention economy.
Come on down and join the conversation.