Comments on: The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/ experiments in refactored perception Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josh W http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-8417 Josh W Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:10:57 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-8417 I've met people who are basically someone else, and even long after having got to know them, they are still 50% equivalent to that other person. I feel like I'm zipping my acquaintances, getting more people for my brain capacity. I fully suspect that if I ever let them meet each other it would muck up my system immensely, because they would recognise their similarities and differentiate in strange ways that force me to remember them more distinctly. In other words people seem to resist being compressed, even if it is a true characterisation! Perhaps the twittersphere increases the number of people for a similar reason, there is no longer a transitive closeness (or probability of interaction), so people you know might not know each other. In other words not only can you abstract people effectively because of their distance from you, but from each other. I'd say that twitter is also useful in the outside broadcast zone, assuming you have a widely held method for interpreting platitudes or declarations. I’ve met people who are basically someone else, and even long after having got to know them, they are still 50% equivalent to that other person. I feel like I’m zipping my acquaintances, getting more people for my brain capacity. I fully suspect that if I ever let them meet each other it would muck up my system immensely, because they would recognise their similarities and differentiate in strange ways that force me to remember them more distinctly. In other words people seem to resist being compressed, even if it is a true characterisation!

Perhaps the twittersphere increases the number of people for a similar reason, there is no longer a transitive closeness (or probability of interaction), so people you know might not know each other. In other words not only can you abstract people effectively because of their distance from you, but from each other.

I’d say that twitter is also useful in the outside broadcast zone, assuming you have a widely held method for interpreting platitudes or declarations.

]]> By: Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Has Seth Godin Peaked? http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-1592 Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Has Seth Godin Peaked? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:59:18 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-1592 [...] for those of you are itching to throw stones back at my own glass house, here is my analysis (almost a year old, so I should probably do a follow-up) of [...] [...] for those of you are itching to throw stones back at my own glass house, here is my analysis (almost a year old, so I should probably do a follow-up) of [...]

]]> By: contentious.com - links for 2007-12-27 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-557 contentious.com - links for 2007-12-27 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:24:32 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-557 [...] The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography » ribbonfarm » experiments in refactored perception “The set “I know x” used to be larger than, and contain “x knows me.” Today, thanks to tools like blogs, they can be non-overlapping. I am sure many people know me who I don’t know (something impossible even 10 years ago for ordinary people.)” (tags: geography sociology theory society social+media social+dynamics) [...] [...] The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography » ribbonfarm » experiments in refactored perception “The set “I know x” used to be larger than, and contain “x knows me.” Today, thanks to tools like blogs, they can be non-overlapping. I am sure many people know me who I don’t know (something impossible even 10 years ago for ordinary people.)” (tags: geography sociology theory society social+media social+dynamics) [...]

]]> By: gawd http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-364 gawd Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:42:02 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-364 My Gawd! you write in such technically profound language, my brain is actually flying hither and thither loosing it's boundaries.. you are simply brilliant...:) My Gawd! you write in such technically profound language, my brain is actually flying hither and thither loosing it’s boundaries..

you are simply brilliant…:)

]]> By: smriti.com » The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-342 smriti.com » The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:31:11 +0000 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/08/22/the-twitter-zone-and-virtual-geography/#comment-342 [...] has just written about a new way to map all our social interactions. The innermost ring is the twitter zone, which he describes as: The twitter zone is the zone of [...] [...] has just written about a new way to map all our social interactions. The innermost ring is the twitter zone, which he describes as: The twitter zone is the zone of [...]

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