Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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Here's something I never thought I'd say: There's such a thing as too much engagement in a social community. A couple days ago, I wrote over at World Domination something that's a symptom of my growing irritation this election season: "How Do You Tell Your Friend He's a Moron?"
Really, it's a symptom of another issue, though, and that is the fact that tech reality has a well known liberal bias. I can't venture out into FriendFeed or Twitter these days without being mobbed by hordes of screaming Obama nuts. It isn't something I can block or hide, either. On O'Biden day, I tried. I went about the business of hiding as much of the "OMG, BIDEN IS SLICED BREAD" tweets and posts as I could, but conversations were cropping up everywhere around it.
Conversations about how great socialized medicine is from people who've never studied the effects of socialized medicine on the economy of a country. Conversations on the wonders of Obama's tax proposal from folks who've never studied tax codes. Conversations on how great communism and socialism is and why we need it in America.
Essentially, I've been thrown in with armchair politics gurus. The majority of these people don't seem to study politics and policy unless there's a national election (and even then, their study doesn't include anything but the campaign propaganda).
In short, it's as if I've been transplanted to your typical Daily Kos/Huffington Post message board.
When I signed up for FriendFeed and Twitter, this wasn't what I had in mind, and it points out a fatal flaw in the lifestreaming service as a message board concept. Folks that I really enjoy having discussions about tech with, I absolutely deplore having conversations about politics with.
I'm really have no desire to spend every waking Internet hour pointing out the falsehood, error, inanity and offensiveness of what most of these folks are saying. I'd much prefer to actually talk tech with these folks, or alternatively talk politics with folks who will say things they know to be true because of research they've done rather than because they heard a candidate or pundit say it once.
I'm going to give some of these conversation agents sime time to die down on the liberal buzz - probably a few days. If my sad guestimation is correct, though, this smug talking point regurgitation isn't going to end until after the election. There's a strong possibility I'll be disengaging from these networks in the meantime; I simply don't think I can stand three straight months of mindless zealotry from folks I otherwise respect.
Update: For those of you who continue to Obama-gush, O'Biden-ate, Bush-bash, or McCain-ify... may I suggest you follow the suggestions put forth in the following video? (Google Reader folks, you wanna click through to the blog for this one...):
Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...