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Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age is Revolutionizing Life, Business, and Society
by Jeff Jarvis
by Jeff Jarvis
I listened to this one instead of reading it. Jeff Jarvis is a good narrator of his own material.
The content is very interesting, though only a few parts are brand new if you are a regular listener to the This Week in Google podcast. What it does do is set out all the concepts and thoughts very clearly in a slightly more scholarly way, and not as a conversation as on the TWiG show.
As for the topic of Publicness complimenting Privacy, this is something I've been aware of since I first got online in 1996. I've always been very public, to the point where some of my friends say "You are the most open person I know... you share everything!"
I don't share everything, of course, but I have many stories just like those in Public Parts. Over and over again, I find great benefits in sharing what I am doing and where I am going.
I'm a professional juggler today because I tried to be as public as possible. I put my stuff out online, for free, and became an internationally known juggler. Not because I was a "good" juggler, but because I was a public juggler.
On the flip side, I'm very private about many things. Since about 2000, every time I've signed up for a web service or created an account, I've done it under my own name. And I've always presumed that ANYTHING I share online will be visible to anyone in the future. I don't expect everyone to see everything, but I expect anyone to be able to see anything.
And so if something is private, it doesn't leave my head. Or if it's on my laptop, it doesn't make it to anywhere online. Which is a good policy, I think.
Also, I live in Berlin, so I directly "benefit" from Germany's privacy regulations of Google Street View. Right?
The content is very interesting, though only a few parts are brand new if you are a regular listener to the This Week in Google podcast. What it does do is set out all the concepts and thoughts very clearly in a slightly more scholarly way, and not as a conversation as on the TWiG show.
As for the topic of Publicness complimenting Privacy, this is something I've been aware of since I first got online in 1996. I've always been very public, to the point where some of my friends say "You are the most open person I know... you share everything!"
I don't share everything, of course, but I have many stories just like those in Public Parts. Over and over again, I find great benefits in sharing what I am doing and where I am going.
I'm a professional juggler today because I tried to be as public as possible. I put my stuff out online, for free, and became an internationally known juggler. Not because I was a "good" juggler, but because I was a public juggler.
On the flip side, I'm very private about many things. Since about 2000, every time I've signed up for a web service or created an account, I've done it under my own name. And I've always presumed that ANYTHING I share online will be visible to anyone in the future. I don't expect everyone to see everything, but I expect anyone to be able to see anything.
And so if something is private, it doesn't leave my head. Or if it's on my laptop, it doesn't make it to anywhere online. Which is a good policy, I think.
Also, I live in Berlin, so I directly "benefit" from Germany's privacy regulations of Google Street View. Right?
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