Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
I've been establishing another kind of online presence at Facebook and, in searching for some musical material, I stumbled across this musical moment from the past ----'White Horses' by the Rolling Stones, stripped, from around 1995.
It's an acoustic version and, suprisingly, the song is performed quite well. I've added it to the 'my videos' section on Facebook, even, though I'm not sure what to make of Facebook. There's a lot of buzz and the Australian bloggers are all busy constructing their own Facebooks --but for what purpose? What's it all about? How come the buzz?
I can see that it's an application platform for personal information that construct a pop culture picture of who one is. But it's more than identity, since whenever I do something of significance inside any of my Facebook applications the platform itself will inform automatically my contacts about it. So my personal Facebook experience depends on the number and level of activity of my Facebook contacts.
If there is no one on Facebook, then you know that the value of Facebook will be little or zero for me. But the more of your Contacts are using Facebook applications actively the more value in terms of “getting to know about what they do”----eg., books my friends are reading. Is this personal information important? I can see that what I get out of Facebook is the “network effect”: the more people using a network the higher is the value for the individual user. We stay automatically in contact with our Facebook contacts.
I can see that Facebook's social networking application platform enables a group of people--those interested in street art or art photography or political art or music--- to stay as a working group together in touch and on target.
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 5:52 PM | Permalink
Pam,
yes re the teenage look. From waht I can gather Facebook was done by and for students, and it still shows. But the underlying platform architecture to eneble social networking is very interesting.
Gary,
Facebook looks to be teenage girly networking stuff--that's my initial impression. And there are issues of privacy on the Internet, surely.
On another note I see that Google is aiming to unleash a major challenge to Facebook now that Microsoft has bought into FaceBook.