Comments on: Social reefs http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/08/social-reefs/ Insight into your digital afterlife Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Romano http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/08/social-reefs/comment-page-1/#comment-305 John Romano Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:04:24 +0000 http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/?p=494#comment-305 The thought came about from a question of Evan's. Do artifacts of interaction have more value in context. We can pluck a conversation out of Facebook ot Twitter and store it for posterity in a text archive associated with a person, but does conversation have more value in context of where it originally came from. Maybe the conversation is best left in it's original format (say Facebook) where links and references can be followed. The thought came about from a question of Evan’s. Do artifacts of interaction have more value in context.

We can pluck a conversation out of Facebook ot Twitter and store it for posterity in a text archive associated with a person, but does conversation have more value in context of where it originally came from.

Maybe the conversation is best left in it’s original format (say Facebook) where links and references can be followed.

]]> By: Evan Carroll http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/08/social-reefs/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Evan Carroll Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:38:09 +0000 http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/?p=494#comment-290 Paul, I'm not quite sure about building the future upon a past network of digital connections, but I do think digital connections will be of value to digital archaeologists. Today we use letters exchanged in the past to understand friendship and connections. Those connections help us piece the past back together. I believe that digital connections will serve this same purpose, perhaps even more so. Paul, I’m not quite sure about building the future upon a past network of digital connections, but I do think digital connections will be of value to digital archaeologists. Today we use letters exchanged in the past to understand friendship and connections. Those connections help us piece the past back together. I believe that digital connections will serve this same purpose, perhaps even more so.

]]> By: Paul http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/08/social-reefs/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Paul Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:34 +0000 http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/?p=494#comment-285 It's hard to imagine the digital connection alone being enough to form something which is built upon in the future. The digital connection can lead to real physical or virtual relationships (aka my dozens of online friends who I laugh, play, and weep with, but have never met in the flesh). I can see blogs, digital photos, digital documents, and maybe digitized physical (paper) documents making up the archives and stuff of digital archeologists. But FB links? I dunno. It’s hard to imagine the digital connection alone being enough to form something which is built upon in the future. The digital connection can lead to real physical or virtual relationships (aka my dozens of online friends who I laugh, play, and weep with, but have never met in the flesh).

I can see blogs, digital photos, digital documents, and maybe digitized physical (paper) documents making up the archives and stuff of digital archeologists. But FB links? I dunno.

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