{"id":986,"date":"2008-12-31T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:04:54","slug":"e-cologies-high-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"E-cologies & High Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grooming one’s social ecologies is no small task — in the real or the virtual. At least the real is bounded by the unities — you can only see so many people at once — whereas the virtual, with its asynchronous multitudes and embarrassment of data, can easily swamp a surfer.<\/p>\n

I became acutely attuned to the importance of different information\/interactional ecologies recently while getting used to Twitter<\/a>.* I don’t know what made me finally decide to enter another one of these little cyberworlds, but I succumbed back in October and I quickly — despite the somewhat odd mix of friends and acquaintances I found there — grew to appreciate the distinctive little conversational channel it was (a function, in part, of the exacting economy of a 140 character limit).<\/p>\n

I started to get a sense of my ideal Twitter ecology when certain folks I was following would suddenly clog up my feed with a dozen or so “tweets” in a row. This was especially annoying when done via a third-party client, like blip.fm, which seem to encourage prolific posting. But individuals can easily violate social media etiquette<\/a> on their own and succumb to what @emynd<\/a> has aptly dubbed, “twit[ting] the bed<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

Bless his vlogging rapper<\/a> heart, but @noreaga<\/a> can occasionally get downright prolix. Even so, I’ve decided, as with @THE_REAL_SHAQ<\/a>, that there are enough gems in the rough to keep following the guy. Take these two recent tweets by N.O.R.E., for e.g. —<\/p>\n

My new years resalution( don’t know how 2 spell it) is 2 only do business with out any feelings<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which was followed by<\/p>\n

I will no longer have any feelings with this business. I will proceed as close 2 a white person as much as possible!!!!!!<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you can imagine, there are some tough decisions to make sometimes in order to make room for the hit-or-miss musings of N.O.R.E. and Shaquille. So please don’t take it personal if you start following me and I don’t follow you back. I’m minding my twitter ecology, you see. At the moment, I’m finding that following 60 or so people is producing a pretty good feed. You never know what’s gonna throw off the natural balance.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I don’t really know why anyone who doesn’t know me, relatively “personally,” would be interested in the fairly banal if occasionally pithy things I might share on Twitter. But that’s the nature of the beast, I s’pose. I don’t mind making my twitterings public. I am, however, resisting integrating them into this blog.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the question of annual resolutions and some ecological changes here at w&w.<\/p>\n

Cribbing a year-old note from \/rupture<\/a>, I’m declaring 2009 the year of
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\n     FOCUS<\/p>\n

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     DO IT FOR THE LOVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Self-explanatory mantras, I know, but to explain the implications for this here blog: I’ve decided to put an end to the “linkthink<\/a>” posts that have been appearing regularly here for the last year or so. I’m not giving up on linkthink, per se, since I conceive of blogging as having linkthink quite often at its core. But what I mean is that I’m stopping my practice — adopted earlier this year to compensate for blog-time lost with the arrival of Nico<\/a> — of posting semi-daily linkdumps from my delicious account<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In a recent riff<\/a> (well worth a read for other reasons), Nick Sylvester notes that “bloggers have two basic options \u2014 write original content or become a central link warehouse,” and while that’s something of a false dichotomy — indeed, I think of blogging somewhere in the middle — I definitely want to err on the side of the former (“original content,” whatever that means). <\/p>\n

But the truth is, farming out blog posts from my delicious bookmarks has simply become too constraining on my actual tagging practice. I find delicious eminently useful, but if I’m thinking just a little too much about how to frame\/excerpt something I stumble upon, the service begins to lose\/change its value. Blogging my delicious notes has started to put too much pressure on them, so I’m moving all that activity back to delicious<\/a>, which you’re perfectly welcome to continue following if you like. You can even subscribe<\/a>! <\/p>\n

The corollary to that change is that I’m resolved to post more frequently here in the year to come. I know that pledging such a thing is a little like signing a blog’s death warrant. Earnest promises to update blogs are like a sad subgenre of blogpost. But I’m for real. You’ll see.<\/p>\n

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* I can’t quite tell you why I’m on something like Twitter but not Facebook. I get a sense that Facebook’s status messages are pretty similar to Twitter, and I do appreciate that — literally — nearly everybody and their mom is on Facebook. But Facebook has long weirded me out, both because of the number of my own students I’d encounter there, blurring social-school lines I don’t always like to blur, and — perhaps more important — because of its radical and sometimes shady reshaping of privacy norms<\/a>. I know that not being on Facebook makes me, in a certain sense, invisible — and blind. On the other hand, given its ubiquity, at this point it almost feels cool NOT to be on Facebook. I mean, I don’t have any tattoos or piercings either, so there you go. Still, I eventually joined MySpace<\/a> for the p2p music networking, so it’s probably a matter of time before I cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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