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Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Bargainista — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:48:40 -0000

Tamera, that's an excellent idea! I still have vivid memories of that debate when Steve Rubel was giving the keynote presentation. Maybe if representatives from the various sides could remain civil, it would make an interesting panel discussion. If not Mesh, then perhaps the next CaseCamp.

Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Bargainista — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:13:23 -0000

Funny.

If you visit the blog, you'll know. My picture is there along with various other profiles including LinkedIn. I also have another alter ego. Her name is Paradise Wunderland and sometimes she can be found in Second Life. I'm upfront about that too. I'm Eden Spodek on twitter and Facebook, but you probably already knew that. ;)

I hope we can continue the discussion in a respectful manner.

Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Bargainista — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:08:19 -0000

Ryan, The only difference in our experience was that my first introduction to this story was a friend request from Ali Barrett. I'm in total agreement with you.

Eden

Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Bargainista — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:30:20 -0000

FYI, I want to ensure everyone I, Eden Spodek am the person registered with Disqus under the name "Bargainista". It's the name of my blog and I often comment wearing that hat. My identity is fully disclosed on my blog.

Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Bargainista — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:27:48 -0000

Thank you for writing such an eloquent post about this issue.

I do have one point of clarification. I hardly think I have enough influence to have caused the deletion of the profiles of Jill's characters. Facebook had representation at the event as well. I haven't had any dealings with Facebook or their representatives.

Regardless, I think there is a much bigger issue at stake here. I am saddened that at events like CaseCamp we are unable to ask questions without creating firestorms and personal attacks. These events exist to help us learn from one another. Life isn't always warm and fuzzy. Part of the learning process is being able to discuss issues and think critically about new ideas in a mature manner. If we can't do that anymore, what's the point?

Re: What are we doing when we Twitter?

Bargainista — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:49:28 -0000

I beg to differ. I agree with Matthew about Twitter (Iike other tools) being part of the communication continuum.

A whole bunch of high-profile bloggers are using Twitter for community building. They are using Twitter to enhance their blogs and podcasts and are anything but lazy. Most of them write at least one blog post every day.

Among other things, they use twitter to: inform people of interesting content, notify us of their latest blog post or podcast episode, involve their Twitter community in research prior to writing a blog post, ask for community participation in an upcoming podcast, invite people for content suggestions and share a wealth of valuable information.

This doesn't seem like digital diarrhea to me. Rather, it's an example of community building at its best.