nothing happens,
and we are writing chronicles.
these magnets aren’t srong enough.
and i m not at all who i thought i was,but that s no surprise.
it s a beautiful dayin a goodbye way.
shapes & sounds … gems for now … reasons for gratitude:
from “True Love Cast Out All Evil”
http://www.rokyerickson.net/
“Forever”
words and music by Roky Erickson
Without One, there would be
an empty, empty, empty space
With One, I can see
One’s own face
Not for a little while, not for a day,
but forever forever forever
One shows one the way
One is not a style, One is not a trend
Just the thought of One, makes me smile
And One tells one…. we will never end
Not for a little while, not for a day,
but forever forever forever
One shows one the way
One is not lost, one is again
with One, one has the pleasure
as of knowing One’s own name
Not for a little while, not for a day,
but forever forever forever
One shows one the way
Not for a little while, not for a day,
but forever forever forever
One shows one the way
Not for a little while, not for a day,
but forever forever forever
One shows one the way
“When he opened the door, he found a room filled with many symmetrical, glittering objects surrounding a central throne …
… a throne out of various old materials like aluminum and gold foil, old furniture, various pieces of cardboard, old light bulbs, shards of mirror and old desk blotters. He had pinned it together with tacks, glue, pins and tape.”
“the further we moved out into the edges, the stronger the notion of (and our hope in) a center.
had we known at the time about the void in that alleged center ….”
Act directly only where you can act out of a positive and constructive impulse.
The remaining other 95% of cases to be handled in a different way – e.g. by transformation, refactoring.
the illegitimate son of jaques brel and pete doherty lives down our street.
days of elementary pleasures:
lydia lunch, diamanda galas in the marble church. work on the land,
sow, saw, see, the dragon fruit, a fire, the chain.
there is a hole in the ground in our garden.
the red fox lives there.
he is a clever one.
he hides himself in written word.
he draws the world’s mechanism on a piece of paper and leaves it to us to decipher.
clever little fox.
i am not all that worried about privacy.
stuff that is really really private i would not put onto these internets, anyway.
i would send it encrypted, or write a letter – ink and all that.
so most of what i put out there
is meant to be public in some form.
and to some extent i would even agree with mark zuckerbergs opinion that the clear line between professional self, social self, private self and all those other selves is a thing of the past.
maintaining different selves and borders between them i find much to cumbersome and time consuming as a task.
i have no right to claim that for others than myself, though -
so my own take on privacy has to fully respect that privacy is the central issue for others.
Dan Yoder writes in http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook :
“Essentially, this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, and own that data, but to make it available to everybody.”
The part i dislike is not the “make it available” part – it s the ownership part: “Facebook … wants to know everything about you” – and sell it.
It s more or less their only business model. All other models are derived from that.
A platform that has become a de facto standard, even for public service and employment processes, should really be run or managed by a people’s parliament, or at least some kind of public-private partnership. The UN, even?
So, while i dont worry about privacy that much, i dont want all our publicprivate data to be zucked up, collected and sold by one (or any small number) of private companies.
In my view, all this publicprivate data should be shared in an open faceworld, where little facebooklets – or should we rather call them faceworldlets? – live on people’s own owned computers, community servers, company servers, whatever,
and exchange data into distributed cloudy faceworldly pools.
i havent checked the tech agenda of the diaspora project, http://www.joindiaspora.com/ , but i hope it is something in that direction they are thinking of.
the privacy challenge will remain – and it would be daring to say that the future’s successors to facebook will do better than facebook.
even the most open and correct and privacy-respecting service will at times expose your data, reconnect you to your worst enemy, and all that.
but i would so prefer my data being lost by a publicly owned distributed system, instead of a company whose purpose is to own them.
(
context: anti-facebook stances having broken into the mainstream massively now – and largely based around the privacy aspect.
see e.g the list at the end of this post:
http://calacanis.com/2010/05/12/the-big-game-zuckerberg-and-overplaying-your-hand/
)
