'The pre-Interent double-take zone was fairly stable. Double-take events were truly serendipitous and generally didn’t go anywhere. Most relationship options expired due to low social and geographic mobility. A random encounter was just a random encounter. Since double-take encounters temporarily dislocate people from the default context through which you know them, and make them temporarily more alive after, you could say the double-take zone is coming alive with nascent relationships: relationships that have been dislodged from a fixed physical or digital context, but haven’t yet been socially situated. There is an additional necessary condition for more to happen: the double-take moment must also destabilize default assumptions about relative status. ...one of the effects of the breakdown of the middle class and trading-up is that status relationships become context-dependent. There is no default context. You never know when you might turn a barista into a new friend after a double-take encounter, or renew a relationship with an old one via a Facebook Like. The sane default attitude today is the world is small and life is long. Reinventing yourself is becoming prohibitively expensive.'

'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'

"Because publicity pretends to interpret the world around us and explain everything in its own terms, publicity adds up to a kind of philosophical system. The things that publicity sells are in themselves neutral – just objects – and so they have to be made glamorous by being inserted into contexts that are exotic enough to be arresting but not close enough to us to offer a threat. Revolution can be wrapped around anything. In this way, publicity abuses the realities of public figures, events and struggles in other parts of the world. Sometimes this reality and unreality confront each other and we are faced with a contrast which is incomprehensible."

Tweeted store front: @KennethCole: 'Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo - KC' -- (Site video: "The collection is influenced by our global landscape...")

'Just because we have the ability to invite people into Groups or to check them into Places, we have to consider the social costs of doing so. What is the impact of this action on my relationship with this individual? Does adding them to this Group or checking them into this location hurt or help the stature and value of my position? As an online society of social denizens, we typically underestimate the potential of social networking and the economy that governs it. Social capital is more valuable than we realize and the currency that determines its net worth is represented by our individual social actions and how they accumulate in the short and long term. This is your time to define who you are and the value you behold…' -- 'Groups represents the future of social networking. We can design groups where we communicate, collaborate, and co-create with purpose, whether it’s personally or professionally.'

'in reply to @virtualista RE: Personal Brands. A #contextcollapse multiple public 'masks' problem. Some ppl deal with it by always wearing the same one.'

Soon you'll deny you ever had a facebook -- '"Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist... Amidst all this heightened chatter, we're not saying much that's interesting, folks. Rather, we're breaking a cardinal rule of companionship: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thy Friends. -- So what's the solution, short of "unfriending" or "unfollowing" everyone who annoys you? To improve our interactions, we need to change our conduct, not just cover it up. First, watch your own behavior, asking yourself before you post anything... And positively reward others, responding only when they write something interesting, ignoring them when they are boring or obnoxious. (Commenting negatively will only start a very public war.)' -- New tag: ambientinanity Perhaps not.

#Flow #Faces: Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. This taps into deep mental structures that we all have to looks for faces and associate the information we receive with people we decide to trust, through what we feel about them. This is also why automated tweets not by them are so obtrusive, as they break the trust. Using friends' faces in ads is even more pernicious, as ads are by definition recommendations from people we don't trust. #Phatic #Following #Publics #Mutual media: Mutual media: The alternative model is one that is less familiar, yet is all around us - the spontaneous order that emerges from people communicating in parallel. ...we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. #Small world networks'