User As Content: Knight News Competition Entry

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User As Content: Revenue Share-Enabling Software for Social Media Contributors

Create an Extensible Persistent Augmented Social Cognition Mindspace

It appears to me that the extraordinary attendees of Singularity Summit 3 have the opportunity to create something on a scale that has not yet ever existed. For lack of a better term we can refer to it as an Extensible Persistent Augmented Social Cognition Mindspace (ASCM). I saw someone tweet the idea of keyboard-mediated Digital Mental Telepathy. However you prefer to conceptualize it, the opportunity that appears to us here is to provide a specific space for SAM (Singularity Audience Mind) to keep thinking in a manner and fashion that we all experienced during the summit itself. For now, that space is #samthinks.
1640PDT 26Oct08 UPDATE: Apparently in between uplifting new civilizations in SPORE on a lazy post-summit Sunday afternoon, and while the markets were all closed and nobody could protest, @silverton and @elbizri has a little fun drafting a quick story of evolution from the lexically aesthetic, but 10 character-heavy #samthinks to the 60% information payload improvement of #samz
It's worth noting that I fully recognize the quality of immediacy by which a physical conference creates a field that significantly focuses the behavior of the participants within the ASCM. We might experiment with other timed, scheduled, planned, and impromptu online means and methods to emulate that immediacy, moving forward.

Or, we might be able to pose some challenging question in the context of, "I wonder what Sam thinks?" and learn that answer relatively quickly, if partially, as only portions of SAM might be alert, firing, and available for handling an individual interrupt request at any given time.

Or it could simply not prove worthwhile at all. Remember, a FAIL case is nothing but that, a signal to end one process and spawn another. FAIL is particularly GOOD when you can quantify it and flag it without wasting cycles, right?

Feel free to share the tinyURL for this idea http://tinyurl.com/samthinks with others whom you believe might be interested.

UPDATE: The "perfection appeal" of having a custom tinyurl that matched the rest of the program gave way to the argument for maximum carrying capacity for individual messages. While that URL will still work, here's the samz version http://tiny.cc/samz

UPDATE: @mcmurrak points out that I also missed registering @samz ;-(

UPDATE: Multi-topic or -domain version of the experiment possible with TweetGrid.


Onward.

Create Greasemonkey for Chrome

Yeah, you *thought* you had another original idea, right? But too late again, Kazuho Oku has done it with Greasemetal. Not to say you can't do better; but you're just not FIRST. Again.

Invent a Camera that Reads Bedtime Stories

Okay, so Ray's Read-Aloud Camera is a bit dated and no, you probably wouldn't use it primarily to read bedtime stories; but you could if you wanted to. This is mostly to check out the Brightcove syndication thingie.

Establish FM Radio in Nepal

The Real Innovators beat you to it a lifetime ago in Internet years.

Scattered Frequencies: Radio Networking in Nepal (2002)

Click the play button to begin.

Gen U

I'm dubbing the current tween generation as Generation U (Gen U) and assert that it is named here on too.late, FIRST, until someone can show me otherwise. Also, it could be the LAST use of the moniker, if nobody cares or agrees. It's not like there's a huge risk/reward disincentive to play around with such terminology, right? :-)

Gen U makes sense as a generational identifier because this cohort is growing up in a completely video-centric YOUniverse that doesn't even care if there is something called "the internet."

The Internet is Irrelevant. WE matter, and WE can just vidphone in a thousand different ways. You're a retard if you consider pervasive P2P video novel or innovative in any way. It's just "the way things have always been."

Content is still King; however, everyday video Communication as Content, User As Content, is now co-equal Queen.

Exponentially expanding TMI is a fundamental Challenge for Gen U; finding the Right Amount of What Matters is one Gen U quotidian ambition. *Defining* What Matters and setting the dominoes of viral distribution in motion are a big part of what separates the Popular Kids; aka, bell cows, opinion leaders, etc., from the herd.

Young Geniuses and Old Masters agree: it does not matter if it's threaded video conversation, vlogging, vcasting, or whatever. In the end, it's all about Attention Management and Efficient Context Navigation.

Set a new Tokbox World Record

Perhaps NOT too late to claim your own personal FIRST!

Feel free to try out this embed example at http://tinyurl.com/my-tokbox ... even if I'm not there at the time, invite 2 or 3 others to try it out. Our world record so far is 22 simultaneous users. Yes, Twenty-Two. It was crazy, but also crazy fun.

Why not see if you can break the record with YOUR friends? If you do, be sure to grab a screen capture (or better, a Jing Video or something) to show your accomplishment!

Here's how to conduct this unofficial user-generated experiment:

0. HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY. See #2 below.

1. Give everyone the url above http://tinyurl.com/my-tokbox and a time to login to that page.

2. Let everyone know that HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY. Echo cancellation may come later, but for now, anyone without headphones will ruin the experiment.

3. Let everyone know that as the room grows and conversation begins to become hard to follow, do like you would do in ANY crowded room - segment into smaller groups. To do this, click the (x) on the top left of several window panes to HIDE those windows. Don't worry, the person is still "there" and you could include them in your "discussion circle" later if you want to experiment.

4. This might result in some people having 15 "hidden" window panes and 5 active people in a conversation. Others may be able to track 15 people and only hide 5.

5. There will be overlap, don't worry about it. It's an experiment. If someone seems to not be responding to you, they may have "hidden" your window. DON'T FEEL DISSED! Enjoy the conversation with those who do respond and who constitute your current discussion group.

6. IF the thing doesn't crash, experiment suggesting to people, "hey, i'm going to hide you for a minute and try opening up another window pane."

7. IF you get 'interrupted' by someone bringing in one or more "too many" windows, don't sweat it! Just say, "Hi, I'm getting overloaded, going to block you for just a sec, okay?"

8. Above all, DON'T TAKE OFFENSE, and don't feel LEFT OUT. Have fun and experiment!

9. HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY, okay? It's a teeny tiny hassle to have a crazy fun time for those interesting in the leading edge of P2P video conversation. :-)