Learning with the Fang

1. Any filtering mechanisms can be easily circumvented
2. Can’t ‘whitelist’ enough stuff to keep the net working properly
3. Can’t ‘blacklist’ enough stuff to prevent nasty surprises

I might come back and elaborate on my 3 peeves, but for now I just wanted to state my opinion in a calm rational way – before all hell breaks loose!

Campaigns have been launched, protests planned, reports filed throughout the broadcast media. Conroy now faces a rising chorus of complaints from backbenchers who suddenly find themselves deluged with emails from constituents.

All of this is due principally to the emergence of a new kind of connectivity, the “social message service”. Typified by Twitter, a web service now mushrooming in popularity, these social message services allow you to subscribe to messages from your friends, while your friends can “follow” you and receive your messages. Across dense webs of interconnections (with many people all reading the messages of one another, forwarding the best messages along, etc.)

Interesting piece by @mpesce which, funnily enough, I discovered not via twitter by from a facebook status update by @kristinalford. Which makes another interesting point – even if you took twitter away (or censored its content) the hyperconnected crowed would swarm somewhere else in a heartbeat – just routing around the damage in the interweb way.

Fang – Mike Seyfang