I’m on vacation this week and not being clever enough to set things up to autopost the posts this week will be quicker rather than longer. This first one is about – well, what is there to talk about now that I have finally found out what this blog is about? Here are some:
1. I want to pick up on the idea of cldwrld countries that I first started to discuss in the post on Facebook as a digital country. In April 2007 (or, at least that’s the earliest reference I could find) xkcd (Randall Munroe) released this Map of Online Communities, which I guess everybody enjoyed at the time (like I said, I’m late to the Now Computing Era) but which is great because it’s great, but great also because of the comparison between MySpace and Facebook.
2. I’ve defined a freemix publisher and the freemix business model and showed it must be a subset of the Free concept that Chris Anderson is promulgating (because my examples of freemix are a subset of his examples of Free). The next question is “Can I define a freemix economy?” and how does that relate to cldwrld? I think the answer to the first question is Yes, using material from the book Remix by Lawrence Lessig.
3. The question of identity at the Real World/cldwrld border. How will the Digital Inhabitant be identified? At the moment it looks to me (but what do I know?) that OpenID, Facebook Connect and Twitter Verified Accounts are all attempts to provide cldwrld country “passports,” but they don’t address the issue of how you prove that a Real World Person is behind a particular digital identity (or, at least, I don’t think they do).
4. The infinite (i.e. so large as to be infinite) storage capacity of the Cloud and how that will/has affected the development of Cloud-based applications.
5. New applications – knet publishing – can we develop publishing that’s not just putting print content into digital containers and what would that mean? Have we done that already and I just need to report on it?
6. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Everybody writes about the Great Pyramid of Giza. Particularly on the subject of whether it is, in fact, an elaborate structure to generate electricity. This is particularly important because if there is no electricity then there is no cldwrld. Did you know that, at the moment, 24% of the world’s population are Internet Users (via internetworldstats.com) and, in 2006, 24% had no access to electricity?
Well, there’s all that and more to write about plus there’s some tidying up around the blog, so more later. I hope you have a great Monday.
