Comments on: The Online Identity Inversion http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/ art • games • change Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-3481 Jason Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:48:50 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/#comment-3481 haha. Nice one, Michael. I've been thinking about this more lately in the context of life history -- how much work my parents have had to do in order to collect and preserve the life stories of their parents and grandparents. Will our children have it easier because of all our online identity caching? The gut reaction is probably yes but as dotcoms fold and information gets spread all over, I wonder if their process of pulling it all together will actually turn out to be all that different. haha. Nice one, Michael. I’ve been thinking about this more lately in the context of life history — how much work my parents have had to do in order to collect and preserve the life stories of their parents and grandparents. Will our children have it easier because of all our online identity caching? The gut reaction is probably yes but as dotcoms fold and information gets spread all over, I wonder if their process of pulling it all together will actually turn out to be all that different.

]]> By: Michael Lockhart http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-3459 Michael Lockhart Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:32:10 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/#comment-3459 I/we/they/you agree. I'd like to control my identity, but I'm not sure which I would be in control if I did. So I let others reflect back who I am, and reflect back why they are to me. It's all fun and games until someone loses an I. Then it's an I for an I, and after a while, we all get sick and tired of I-dolatry. Michael I/we/they/you agree. I’d like to control my identity, but I’m not sure which I would be in control if I did. So I let others reflect back who I am, and reflect back why they are to me. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an I. Then it’s an I for an I, and after a while, we all get sick and tired of I-dolatry.

Michael

]]> By: Jason http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-3026 Jason Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:52:05 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/#comment-3026 Hey, Tracee. Thanks for the thoughts! It does seem like social software can help intersect artifacts and experience in new and interesting ways. What I'm talking about is helping people collect their artifacts from all over and use them to present their identity more coherently and richly. But it certainly does seem like the next logical step could be to let them leverage these collected artifacts collaboratively. This reminds me of the <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/landmark.htm" rel="nofollow">Milestones in Time project</a>, which aimed to show one person's documents on the local computer in the context of events that happened in their life and the world. I imagine an interesting follow-on project might be to take a similar approach to groups of people working together (and generating artifacts together) over time. Hey, Tracee. Thanks for the thoughts!
It does seem like social software can help intersect artifacts and experience in new and interesting ways. What I’m talking about is helping people collect their artifacts from all over and use them to present their identity more coherently and richly. But it certainly does seem like the next logical step could be to let them leverage these collected artifacts collaboratively.

This reminds me of the Milestones in Time project, which aimed to show one person’s documents on the local computer in the context of events that happened in their life and the world. I imagine an interesting follow-on project might be to take a similar approach to groups of people working together (and generating artifacts together) over time.

]]> By: Tracee http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 Tracee Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:10:33 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/#comment-2993 Not that I'm not excited about the turn identity-aggregation is taking, but I'm hoping the same can be done for authored content and shared experiences - to help set context without the overhead of having to find everything manually. I'm thinking specifically of the collaboration or meeting experience. During a meeting, content is shared... maybe even authored. The content has a life outside of that meeting experience and needs to find it's way (with other content) to other meetings. But it's hard to manage that. I think social software may pave the way for automatically managing artifacts that are tied to particular people and particular experiences. Not that I’m not excited about the turn identity-aggregation is taking, but I’m hoping the same can be done for authored content and shared experiences – to help set context without the overhead of having to find everything manually. I’m thinking specifically of the collaboration or meeting experience. During a meeting, content is shared… maybe even authored. The content has a life outside of that meeting experience and needs to find it’s way (with other content) to other meetings. But it’s hard to manage that. I think social software may pave the way for automatically managing artifacts that are tied to particular people and particular experiences.

]]> By: Joanna Maguire http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2973 Joanna Maguire Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:58:18 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2007/01/the-online-identity-inversion/#comment-2973 A secret Identity on line ? A phantasy person ? Between the lines however we always reveal our true personality just as we do to others off line Joanna A secret Identity on line ? A phantasy person ? Between the lines however we always reveal our true personality just as we do to others off line
Joanna

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