The Fred Graver Blog
YES WE DID!
Jun 21, 2008
3:17pm
Jun 21, 2008
2:32pm
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What I’ve noticed is that Ambient Intimacy is quite polarising. For as many people that love it, there are plenty who intensely dislike it. There are two key issues at play here, I think - the first is the idea that the communication is actually not high value at all, and perhaps even causes cognitive dissonance and stress. This is an idea that Kathy Sierra posited in her post ‘Is Twitter TOO good?’. Many people find the idea of communications that weren’t particularly created for them and don’t necessarily require their attention somewhat distasteful. All of this periphery communication can also mean that we are in a state of Continuous Partial Attention, and not achieving the state of flow that our brains like so much. I think that we need to take some personal responsibility for perhaps switching off the feeds if we know we’re liable to distraction and we need to maintain focus. I also love David Weinberger’s take on this, which is that ‘it helps that the volume of flow is so impossibly high that there’s zero expectation that anyone is keeping up. ‘hey dude, what didn’t you know that? I like twittered it two days ago’ is just not a reasonable complaint’.
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- disambiguity - » Reboot 9.0 - Ambient Intimacy
Jun 21, 2008
2:26pm
Big Music's "360" Plans Blow Up. Next? - Silicon Alley Insider
Live Channel’s “360” is looking more like the circle in a zen painting… curious and possibly illuminating emptiness.
Jun 21, 2008
2:22pm
disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy
For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out why / why / why / why people twitter or like twitter. This explains a lot.
Still think we’re missing on the “signal v. noise” ratio of life… (you’ll have to read the blog to understand).
Jun 21, 2008
12:59pm
listening to Wilco on “Songza.” What an amazing site! http://songza.com/z/xdxoay
Jun 15, 2008
9:23pm
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Lucid Dream, by Carey Ott. Carey is a young Chicago singer / songwriter. I discovered him on my “Wilco Radio” channel on Pandora. He reminds me of the first McCartney album (“Cherries”). And I love that album!
Jun 15, 2008
3:59pm
Remix America | Welcome to Remix America
The site went live last week… hope you all enjoy it. Would love your comments!
Jun 15, 2008
1:28pm
I’M GONNA VOTE OBAMA!!! The most joyous celebration of the Obama revolution I’ve seen. Met the director, Kenzo Hakuta, in NY on Friday. Getting ready to do some Remix America stuff with him!
Jun 1, 2008
9:43pm
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Bruce Springsteen, It’s Hard to Be A Saint In The City
Radically different arrangement
May 20, 2008
2:03pm
GRAVER'S INTERNET LAW #1
IF you build a site to do X…
The first call or email you get will inevitably say “I can’t get it to do X.”
May 17, 2008
10:09pm
and, I guess, Jakob Lodwick…
I’m sure there’s other spinoffs… this is too funny
May 17, 2008
10:01pm
Bill O’Reilly Flips Out â DANCE REMIX (via )
We’re getting ready to launch “Friends and Family” Remix America site… Searching around the web and seeing tons of things… this makes me laugh every time!
Sue Simmons is such a piker!
May 17, 2008
7:06pm
May 17, 2008
7:00pm
May 17, 2008
6:55pm
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“I LOVE THE SOUND OF BREAKING GLASS” from “Jesus Of Cool” by Nick Lowe, who wrote the rule book for the 80s… too bad the 80s didn’t follow the rules!
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