Charlie Rose is back with another good word.
I love the idea of “living more transparently can have powerful and positive effects.”
Any thoughts?
Charlie Rose is back with another good word.
I love the idea of “living more transparently can have powerful and positive effects.”
Any thoughts?
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I think it one of the issues with the web is that it is unlike Real life in many ways. In real life you can predict what will happen with more skill. So you build a store and you can predict sales based on traffic patterns and the type of store, etc. But you put yourself out on the web, the same content and design and strategy may bring you a gazillion visitors or almost none. It you get a few influential visitors then suddenly you can be famous but the same stuff may have more visitors, but if none of them are influential then you are limited those visitors. The Digg effect or Boing Boing effect may or may not bring any lasting traffic and it may bring your site to its knees but it does show the power of an online group (community?).
What attracts people on the web seems to be giving something for nothing. If you give something (sometimes that is just and authentic portrait of yourself) then people are attracted to that. If what you are doing is actually selling something and not giving it away then people are less interested. Many churches and Christians are still trying to sell something instead of giving it away and people reject that. I have friends that only want to use social networking for their own ends, they don't want to give to others and I tend to invest less in them precisely because they are unwilling to invest in others.
The problems of just giving stuff away instead of adequately compensating the creator is a whole other issue.
I absolutely agree with the idea of “living more transparently can have powerful and positive effects.” This is what the Christian life is supposed to be like. When we don't live more transparently we are sentencing ourselves to have to deal with all of our "junk" alone. Sadly, I lived this way for a LONG time. Sadly, I know of too many people who are living this way. What is comes down to is that someone has to take the prayerful risk to get the ball rolling . . .
what a smart and insightful guy