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that i recently decided to end my ethnography podcast not that major a decision and rather easy to make basically i had stopped doing it but i had yet to officially end it i had to make it clear in my mind that it s not part of the things i m doing these days not that it was a big thing in my life but i had set reminders every month that i had to record a podcast episode it worked for ten episode in ten months but once i had missed one episode the reminder was nagging me more than anything else in this sense moving on is realistic pragmatic found something similar in getting things done by david allen it s also similar to something larry lessig called email bankruptcy as a step toward enhanced productivity in fact even financial bankruptcy can relate to this in some contexts in canada at least bankruptcy is most adequately described as a solution to a problem not the problem itself i ve known some people who were able to completely rebuild their finances after declaring bankruptcy sometimes even getting a better credit rating than someone who hadn t gone bankrupt i know how strongly some people may react to this concept of bankruptcy based on principle resentment fears hopes it s an extreme example of what i mean by moving on it goes well with the notion quite common in north american cultural contexts that you always deserve a second chance but that you should do things yourself of course similar things happen with divorces which similarly can often be considered as solutions to a problem rather than the problem itself no matter how difficult or how bad divorce might be it s a way to start over in some sense it s less extreme an example as the bankruptcy one but it may still generate negative vibes or stir negative emotions because what i m thinking about has more to do with turning over a new leaf and taking the leap of faith which will make you go where you feel more comfortable i m especially thinking about all sorts of cases of people who decided to make radical changes in their professional or personal lives often leaving a lot behind whether they were forced to implement such changes or decided to jump because they simply wanted to all of the cases i remember have had positive outcomes it reminds me of a good friend of mine with whom i went through music school in college when he finished college he decided to follow the music path and registered for the conservatory but pretty quickly he realized that it wasn t for him even though he had been intensely in music for several years with days of entering the conservatory he saw that music wasn t to remain the central focus of his career through a conversation with a high school friend who later became his wife and the mother of his children he found out that it wasn t too late for him to register for university courses he had been thinking about phys ed and thought it might be a nice opportunity to try that path he s been a phys ed teacher for a number of years we had lunch together last year and he seems very happy with his career choice he also sounds like a very dedicated and effective phys ed teacher in my last podcast episode i mentioned a few things about my views of this change of course including what has become something of an expression for me done with fish comes from the movie adaptation the quote is found here preceded by a bit of profanity basically john laroche who was passionately dedicated to fish decided to completely avoid anything having to do with fish i can relate to this at some rather deep level i m also thinking about the negative consequences of sticking with something which isn t working shifting too late or too quickly implementing changes in inappropriate ways plenty of examples there most of the ones which come to my mind have to do with business settings one which would require quite a bit of explaining is my perception of google s strategy with wave put briefly with the hope of revisiting this issue i think google made bad decisions with wave including killing it both too late and too early no i don t see this as a contradiction but i don t have time to explain it they also i feel botched a few transitions in this and more importantly i d say that they failed to adapt the product to what was needed and the trigger for several of my reflections on this moving on idea have to do with this kind of adaptation fun that the movie of that name should be involved eh twitter could be an inspiration in this case not only did they like flickr start through a switch away from another project but twitter was able to transform users habits into the basis for some key features hashtags and replies are well known examples but you could even say that most of the things they ve been announcing have been related to the way people use their tools so in a way it s about the balance between vision and responsiveness vision is often discussed and it sounds to some people as a key thing in any task based group from a team to a corporation but the way a team can switch from one project to the next based on feedback from users or other stakeholders seems underrated although there is some talk about the startup mentality in many contexts including google and apple words which fit this semantic field include agile flexible pivot lean and nimble the latter word seemed to increase in currency after being used by barack obama in a speech anyhoo gotta go but just before i go i am moving on with some things including my podfade but also a shift away from homebrewing but the key things in my life are very stable especially my sentimental life 45 559231 73 687999 author enkerli posted on august 6 2010 august 6 2010 categories comment fishing personal life placeholders quickies ramblings responsiveness tags adaptation adaptive apple bankruptcy career changes clean slate david allen divorce done with fish email bankruptcy flexibility flexible google google wave gtd homebrewing larry lessig leaps of faith life shifts moving on nimble nimbleness podcasting podfade radical solutions responsiveness starting over startups 4 comments on moving on values of content some ways to understand content wannabe guru there s no such thing as free content literature major content s a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing arts major content is in the eye of the beholder entertainer there s no content like show content like no content i know journalist content is my job and i deserve to be paid for what i make the exact same way that a baker is paid for selling bread what other people called content isn t really content since it hasn t been vetted by professionals like my editor so my role is to create content so that my editor can distribute it through exclusive channels other people s content becomes my content when i secure the rights to it through the use of a clearance service comments by people i interview only become content after they sign a release everything else is noise economist there are four ways to get paid for content a subscription b advertising c private or public sponsorship d sale on media since advertising and sponsorship are two aspects of the same model and since consumers epend money on either subscription or media sales there are two basic models functionalist sociology content serves different goals both manifest and latent conflict theorist sociology providing free content is a way for the ruling class to make the audience into a commodity interactionist sociology content provides meaning to social selves moralist content yourself buddhist content breeds contentment christian content begat content geek content wants to be free judge our mission is to balance the rights of content creators with those of content consumers cop there are three forms of content content that is appropriate for everyone content which is only appropriate to certain people and content which isn t appropriate for anyone teenage boy where can i find naked pictures of that cute girl in my class teenage girl how can i get in touch with that dreamy guy in that video 45 559231 73 687999 author enkerli posted on july 28 2010 july 28 2010 categories comment fishing humor humour placeholders quickies ramblings spoofs leave a comment on values of content what not to tweet sarcastic do s and don ts list about improper twitter behaviour here s a list i tweeted earlier twenty things you should never ever tweet for fear of retaliation from the tweet police lists too difficult to follow do s and don ts who died and made you bandleader personal thoughts nobody cares what anyone else thinks anyway anything in a foreign language it confuses everyone personal opinions you may offend someone jokes same reason as 5 links too dangerous since some could be malicious anything in the second degree the bareness of context prevents careful reading anything insightful who do you think you are personal replies can t you get a room 20 what oatmeal said you shouldn t tweet if it s funny it must be true in case it wasn t clear yes i mean this as sarcasm one of my pet peeves is to hear people tell others what to do or not to do without appropriate context it s often perceived to be funny or useful but to be honest it just rubs me the wrong way sure they re allowed to do it i won t prevent them i don t even think they should stop that s really not for me to decide it s just that being honest with myself i realize how negative of an effect it has on me it actually reaches waaaaay down into something i don t care to visit very often the oatmeal can be quite funny reading a few of these comics recently i literally loled and this one probably pleased a lot of people because it described some of their own pet peeves besides it s an old comic probably coming from a time when tweets were really considered to be answers to the original twitter prompt what are you doing i e before the change to the somewhat more open what s happening but i ve heard enough expressions of what people should or shouldn t do with a specific social media system that i felt the need to vent so that was the equivalent of a rant and this post is closer to an actual rant i mean there s a huge difference between saying these are the kinds of uses for which i think twitter is the appropriate tool and the flat out dismissal of what others have done while twitter is old news as social media go it s still unfolding and much of its strength comes from the fact that we don t actually have a rigid notion of what it should be not that there aren t uses of twitter i dislike in fact for much of 2009 i felt it was becoming too commercial for my taste i felt there was too much promotion of commercial entities and products and that it was relatively difficult to avoid such promotional tweets if one were to follow the reciprocation principle i really should make sure i follow those who follow me even if a large proportion of them are just trying to increase their follower counts but none of this means that twitter isn t for commercial promotion structurally twitter almost seems to be made for such uses conceptually it comes from the same broadcast view of communication shared by many marketers advertisers pr experts and movie producers as social media tools go twitter is among the most appropriate ones to use to broadly distribute focused messages without having to build social relationships so no matter how annoyed i may get at these tweets and at commercial twitterers it d be inaccurate to say that twitter isn t for that besides twitter inc has adopted commercial promotion as a major part of its business model no matter what one feels about this say that it s not very creative or that it will help distinguish between commercial tweets and the rest of twitter traffic it seems to imply that twitter is indeed about commercial promotion as much as it is about shar ing and discover ing what s happening now the same couldn t be said about other forms of tweeting that others may dislike it d be much harder to make a case for say conference liveblogging as being an essential part of what twitter is about in fact some well known and quite vocal people have made pronouncements about how inappropriate in their minds such a practice was to me much of it sounds like attempts at rationalizing a matter of individual preference some may dislike it but twitter does make a very interesting platform for liveblogging conferences sure we ve heard about the negative consequences of the twitter backchannel at some high profile events and there are some technical dimensions of twitter which make liveblogging potentially more annoying to some users than if it were on another platform but claiming that twitter isn t for liveblogging reveals a rather rigid perspective of what social media can be again one of the major strengths in twitter is its flexibility from mentions and hashtags to retweets and metadata the platform has been developing over time based on usage patterns for one thing it s now much more conversational than it was in 2007 and some twitter advocates are quite proud of that so one might think that twitter is for conversation but at least in my experience twitter isn t that effective a tool for two way communication let alone for conversations involving more than two people so if we re to use conversation to evaluate twitter as its development may suggest we should do it seems not to be that successful in this blog version of my list i added a header with a mention of the tweet police i mean it in the way that people talk about the fashion police wish immediately makes me think about fashion victims the beauty myth the objectification of the human body the social pressure to conform to some almost arbitrary canons the power struggles between those who decide what s fashionable and those who need to dress fashionably to be accepted in some social contexts etc basically it leads to rather unpleasant thoughts in a way my mention of the tweet police is a strategy to...