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This is part two of a two-part post; a brain dump of potentially lilliputian proportions. The first part was about the idea of Transactive Memory and outsourcing certain types of brain function to the web. This post is about what this new way of thinking and functioning means with regard to our individuality. This might be tricky.

Part two:

There is a long tradition, that is surprisingly hard to document with any specificity online, of indigenous cultures and first peoples being unwilling to have their pictures taken by visitors with cameras - at least initially. Many of these cultures eventually shifted toward allowance, ambivalence, or even adoption of technologies like the camera, but even today there are people who do not allow their pictures to be taken. read more »

Global Strategies white boards the relationship between Lucky, Charms, and Irish:

Wikipedia defines Transactive Memory as:

…the process whereby people remember things in relationships and groups. Each person does not need to remember everything the group needs to know, after all, if each person merely stores in memory information about who is likely to have a particular item in the future. This capacity for remembering who knows what is the key to transactive memory…

Now that the internet has become such a deeply ingrained part of our daily lives, are we different? Who are we? And where are we going? read more »

There has been much debate about Twitter revolving around opinions that it lacks a reason for being, revenue, business model, and ultimate fiscal viability. And yet some really really smart, really really rich VC investors not only dumped an additional $35 million into it, but then proceeded to laugh at the lack of a business model. But things are about to change, there’s a whole new PPC marketplace coming down the road, and there’s a long long tail of Twitter revenue out there for the taking. read more »

Twitter is a Real Time Capable Social Search Engine.

Here’s a little piece that was part of another Twitter related blog post of mine, but it’s important, and I think it was getting lost behind the rest of the post. read more »

Wolfram Alpha. The next Google killer. The guest blogger at TechCrunch says, and I quote verbatim, “OMG!! PONIES!!1!!” So, y’know… Ponies it must be.

OK. Computational knowledge. Cool.

Cellular Automata. Cool.

But we’re missing a couple of major points that I think will help to put this in perspective. read more »

Guess what? Facebook is the new Twitter (kind of). And I don’t mean in the “French 60’s musicals is the new black” sort of way (though it’s totally true).

Earlier today Facebook had a little anouncement get together to call attention to some changes that they were about to make, and that have now gone into effect. Here’s the liveblog coverage from TechCrunch and here’s a good summary of the changes put together by Mashable.

Others have a done a good job with the dissection already, so I’m going to try to keep from rambling too badly, and pick out a couple of important points… read more »