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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Penguicon">
        <outline text="http://penguicon.org"/>
        <outline text="No news show this weekend"/>
        <outline text="Have been asked to help record, should have plenty of audio"/>
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    <outline text="Listener feedback" Offset="01:54">
      <outline text="Jed from Bellingham">
        <outline text="Domain specific languages"/>
        <outline text="Python for RedHat sysconfig scripts and applets"/>
        <outline text="Make, ant and Groovy"/>
        <outline text="PHP low barrier to entry"/>
        <outline text="PHP eval vs. reflection in Java"/>
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    <outline text="Word of the Week: dangling pointer" Offset="08:35">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dangling-pointer.html"/>
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    <outline text="Monologue: Social Spaces 2" Offset="09:20">
      <outline text="First talked about social spaces 8/22 last year">
        <outline text="Focused on connections"/>
        <outline text="How social networks, tools enrich connections"/>
        <outline text="Also how they help with making new connections"/>
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      <outline text="Been talking a lot with wife, others about social networks">
        <outline text="Is a relationship conducted solely through online spaces real?"/>
        <outline text="She gave up fora, Twitter for several weeks"/>
        <outline text="On advice, idea that purely online relationships are a form of fantasy"/>
        <outline text="An interesting idea with some merit"/>
        <outline text="How much do we consider the value, validity of online relationships?"/>
        <outline text="Is it the promise of real meeting?"/>
        <outline text="Or is it the allure of fantasy?"/>
        <outline text="Has lead her to simple rule, if she has not met you in real life, doesn't accept friend/follow requests"/>
        <outline text="Not personal, just a rule she has thought about to manage connections"/>
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      <outline text="Made me think about the question, how do I decide to make a new connection?">
        <outline text="Have to admit that the most compelling connections are those with a real element"/>
        <outline text="This doesn't exclude ones that start online"/>
        <outline text="Just suggests there has to be a more meaningful element"/>
        <outline text="For me, this show is enough for simple acquaintance"/>
        <outline text="On the whole, what that is may change from relationship to relationship"/>
        <outline text="In many cases, this is the opportunity to meet face to face"/>
        <outline text="This is bearing in mind the risks I spoke about last time"/>
        <outline text="The relationship will change for the meeting"/>
        <outline text="Also, as a content creator, tools for enriching connection to audience"/>
        <outline text="Seeing some fellow creators struggle with this"/>
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      <outline text="Working with an audience is different than maintaining personal relationships">
        <outline text="With a single account, most of the tools are too coarse grained"/>
        <outline text="Personal interactions may encourage simple fans to too much familiarity"/>
        <outline text="Scalzi, Lafferty posted about approaching authors"/>
        <outline text="http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=581"/>
        <outline text="http://murverse.com/2008/04/10/etiquette/"/>
        <outline text="Audience oriented messages can get a little spammy for personal friends"/>
        <outline text="Another example that not all relationships are equal"/>
        <outline text="Not all tools handle them equally well"/>
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      <outline text="Different than Cory's model of the death of social sites">
        <outline text="To be fair, he is discussing walled gardens"/>
        <outline text="http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/webdev/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573&amp;_requestid=739137"/>
        <outline text="Exclusive by nature, friend requests need to be approved">
          <outline text="This is what makes it a walled garden"/>
          <outline text="That and you cannot take content out of it"/>
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        <outline text="Leads to the problem he describes">
          <outline text="Approving out of obligation"/>
          <outline text="Being forced to bring relationships in that don't match how you use the tool"/>
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        <outline text="One solution is to abandon sites, start over"/>
        <outline text="Less of a problem with inclusive models, like Twitter">
          <outline text="No real need to reciprocate"/>
          <outline text="Relationships can be one sided, like people following Scoble, Wheaton"/>
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        <outline text="Inclusive networks have their own problems">
          <outline text="More intimate than reading a full blog"/>
          <outline text="One way relationship can be strained"/>
          <outline text="Cognitive dissonance, so close to IM, more immediate media but its isn't"/>
          <outline text="Can encourage stalker like behavior, even creepy behavior shy of that"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Some tools include blocking">
          <outline text="This is not a good answer for managing information flows, relationship"/>
          <outline text="Problematic as blocked persons usually know it"/>
          <outline text="Hard to communicate clearly why you blocked someone"/>
          <outline text="They will not see your explanation, by definition"/>
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      <outline text="Modeling different relationships richly">
        <outline text="Opportunities for social sites to avoid many forms of relation-geddon"/>
        <outline text="Counter pressures, social sites motivated to be more and more inclusive"/>
        <outline text="The bigger the network, the more ad impressions"/>
        <outline text="Some examples do exist">
          <outline text="Identity 2.0 includes notions of showing different views of your identity"/>
          <outline text="Doesn't help with content"/>
          <outline text="Flickr allows restricting content to different groups within contacts"/>
          <outline text="Can't define new groups"/>
          <outline text="LJ has filters"/>
          <outline text="This is closest to what I am thinking"/>
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        <outline text="Only alternative today on Facebook, Twitter is to create multiple accounts, build, maintain different networks"/>
        <outline text="Solution needs to be simple">
          <outline text="Twitter has grown so much because it imposes few rules"/>
          <outline text="True of other successful technologies, like blogs, podcasts, email and IM"/>
          <outline text="Users have defined how to use"/>
          <outline text="Tags or groups would be enough"/>
          <outline text="Default message goes to all"/>
          <outline text="Allow sender to pick a subset per message if desired"/>
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      <outline text="Key to this is getting more people to think about acceptance criteria">
        <outline text="Why do you friend the people you do?"/>
        <outline text="Are tools forcing you to interact with different kinds of contacts the same way?"/>
        <outline text="The biggest challenge is probably inertia"/>
        <outline text="Enough people are satisfied with how it works"/>
        <outline text="More self awareness may swing the balance"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="25:02">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
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      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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