Dankie vir die voorreg om ‘n gedeelte van my opienie hier te lewer.

Johan Ries.

“It is fashionable to suggest that cyber-space is some island of the blessed where people are free to indulge and express their individuality, this is not true. I have seen many people spill out their emotions – their guts – online and I did so myself until I began to see that I had commodified myself.
Commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money value. In the 19th Century, commodities were made in factories, by workers who were mostly exploited. But I created my interior thoughts as commodities for the corporations that owned the board I was posting to – like Compuserve or AOL – and that commodity was sold onto other consumer entities as entertainment.
Cyber-space, is a Black Hole; it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it, as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion – and we are getting lost in the spectacle.”
—Carmen Hermosillo

It’s just a 1) Privacy destroyer, 2) Popularity/Coolness/Narcissism contest 3) A complete Time waster…

I mean adding people from highschool— Did you like highschool? I hated it, thought it was full of dickheads why would I want to re-remember them?! that’s just haunting… lol

Click here looking for a thorough Apple TV Hack tutorial.

“With what we’ve done high XBMC and iOS, we’re going to view same abruptly a mammoth jump from what people start offering care of the Apple TV,” said Scott Davilla, maker of XBMC.

The XBMC app is piece of a renewed communal effort to hack the Apple TV, as Wired.com reported late mould year. In a little while after Apple released the Apple TV 2, coders realized it ran iOS, the same operating group as the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Some passkey programmers in the iOS community and a some hackers of the unprecedented Apple TV sire turned their notice to tinkering with the fresh $100 set-top box.

XBMC has not still announced what plug-ins will be at one’s disposal, but keep tuned on the XBMC plug-ins period for any new releases.

To inaugurate the XBMC software on your Apple TV 2, you must affix it by USB to a computer and jailbreak it with Season Pass, which inclination automatically induct XBMC.

I really liked your post. Michael, who is now my husband, decided to set up a facebook account for me, I know he was coming from a good place but I was really irritated! Anyhow, it was like a bad movie that you cant stop watching, people I barely remember from 30 years ago wanted to be friends. mostly it was voyeuristic for me. But it really made me uncomfortable, and i couldn’t really put my finger on why. That is until your post.

I immediately went to my facebook account and deactivated. the bastards try and get you to stay, quite pathetic! To hell with the guilt, I feel free after all it was never really personal now was it? so thank you

Anyhow, the reason I stumbled across your blog is that i am looking for somewhere to post occasional articles on Africa and labour. I have been writing quite a lot recently, just finished on article called ‘can africa’s industrialisation ambition be greened?’ its written for labour but I realised that it was not appropriate for my usual place to contribute that requires articles to be news, not commentary. I don’t want to create my own blog, I would prefer to add a voice to an existing online network, any ideas?

Diaspora runs on autonomous pods, so if you can’t get an account at the main site (joindiasora.org), try londondiaspora.org.

It reminds me of the history of the early industrial age when unscrupulous owners paid labourers partly in alcohol and with just enough to keep a roof over their head to come back to work the next day.

At the same time, the issues of control over the relationship and means of communciation arise. Indeed it is scary to think that one company can have so much control over the ability of individuals to congregate in the virtual world.

The opensocial movement is a reaction to the abusive nature of this relationship, as is myCube:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1754416/what-if-facebook-paid-you-for-your-data

I’m not convinced that mycube is MUCH better than Facebook, perhaps marginally so. But I think social networks are in a very immature stage a la AOL and that in the end, they will evolve towards open standards and individuals having the ability/option to monetize the value of their own relationships.