Convergence of some sort
Posted on | June 29, 2005 | 4 Comments
So, I was reading the comments to my last post, one of them from a woman at Hallmark. I figured she was a longer-term peterme.com reader.
Well, it turns out I’m in Hallmark’s offices, and when I open up iChat, I see this woman on the local network. So I say, “Hi! I saw you had written on my site!”
In chatting, I found out that she hadn’t been to my site before today. What had happened is that my computer had popped up on the local network, and had appeared in people’s iChat and iTunes. She Googled my name, and saw my site, read that I was in Kansas City, and posted a comment. I then read that, and later discovered her on the network.
I don’t know quite what to make of all this, except that it seems like a glimpse of what’s to be as things get increasingly digital and public.
Comments
4 Responses to “Convergence of some sort”
Hello
Archives
- March 2013 (1)
- January 2013 (1)
- October 2012 (4)
- September 2012 (1)
- June 2012 (1)
- May 2012 (3)
- April 2012 (2)
- March 2012 (3)
- February 2012 (3)
- January 2012 (9)
- December 2011 (7)
- September 2011 (1)
- June 2011 (4)
- May 2011 (8)
- April 2011 (5)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (2)
- January 2011 (3)
- December 2010 (4)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (1)
- July 2010 (1)
- June 2010 (2)
- May 2010 (7)
- April 2010 (4)
- March 2010 (4)
- February 2010 (16)
- January 2010 (35)
- December 2009 (4)
- October 2009 (1)
- September 2009 (4)
- August 2009 (4)
- July 2009 (7)
- June 2009 (7)
- May 2009 (3)
- April 2009 (2)
- March 2009 (5)
- February 2009 (6)
- January 2009 (7)
- December 2008 (5)
- November 2008 (7)
- October 2008 (5)
- September 2008 (8)
- August 2008 (5)
- July 2008 (15)
- June 2008 (8)
- May 2008 (7)
- April 2008 (4)
- March 2008 (14)
- February 2008 (6)
- January 2008 (8)
- December 2007 (14)
- November 2007 (3)
- October 2007 (9)
- September 2007 (6)
- August 2007 (8)
- July 2007 (11)
- June 2007 (8)
- May 2007 (8)
- April 2007 (9)
- March 2007 (12)
- February 2007 (10)
- January 2007 (9)
- December 2006 (8)
- November 2006 (17)
- October 2006 (9)
- September 2006 (12)
- August 2006 (8)
- July 2006 (12)
- June 2006 (12)
- May 2006 (8)
- April 2006 (18)
- March 2006 (12)
- February 2006 (14)
- January 2006 (9)
- December 2005 (19)
- November 2005 (10)
- October 2005 (10)
- September 2005 (18)
- August 2005 (21)
- July 2005 (12)
- June 2005 (9)
- May 2005 (16)
- April 2005 (11)
- March 2005 (12)
- February 2005 (7)
- January 2005 (8)
- December 2004 (15)
- November 2004 (12)
- October 2004 (13)
- September 2004 (3)
- August 2004 (13)
- July 2004 (9)
- June 2004 (11)
- May 2004 (6)
- April 2004 (9)
- March 2004 (8)
- February 2004 (7)
- January 2004 (9)
- December 2003 (7)
- November 2003 (6)
- October 2003 (19)
- September 2003 (12)
- August 2003 (16)
- July 2003 (10)
- June 2003 (6)
- May 2003 (7)
- April 2003 (7)
- March 2003 (4)
June 30th, 2005 @ 8:47 am
It can get spooky. Last night I uploaded a photo of Papa Cristo on Flickr, then sent it to its page. Going there, I saw the new photo already had a comment. Assuming I had made an error, I clicked on the comment, but saw it was from a viewer who had obviously clicked on my site and posted her comment 25 seconds before. That’s before I sent it there!
July 1st, 2005 @ 5:37 pm
On the flip side, I’ve been in meeting after meeting with wireless laptops, all running XP, and people are passing around USB drive keychains to share files. Ridiculous.
July 6th, 2005 @ 10:11 am
Your situation illustrates well two issues close to my heart as of late: personal communication and information sharing. I have been thinking about how the gap in synchronous and asynchronous communication can affect these two aspects of the personal IA. Two big challenges are presence/availability and privacy management (not the buzz word, but the personal ability to indicate disposition to communicate). We’ll be dealing with this more and more, specially as cross-device communication becomes less clunky.
I’ve “chatted” with people through email when they were on computers where they couldn’t use IM, had comments posted to my blog as I was editing the entry I just posted and, more often than not, had my sessions go nuts when editing wikis because of simultaneous access. Asynchronous and synchronous communication have always been treated separately for reasons I can’t quite understand, but thinking of these events (and your example) there seems to be a large gap and overlooked opportunity as it relates to issues of information overload (and the personal IA/InfoCloud concerns).
You became aware of the person’s post and location because YOU made the connections between all the different things that happened. Could you have made the same connection if the volume of communication/information was much greater (excess/noise)? Or if there was less information? You filled the gap between the asynchronous (blog comment) and the synchronous (online availability in a network). You leveraged presence/availability (on iChat and physically in the office) and privacy management (you were both identifiable on peterme.com and on iChat/local network) to create meaningful information/connection = “X person interested in what I have to say is in the same room as me, I should talk to them” . You created the relationships that were not visible. To me, that’s the goldmine for UX design.
November 12th, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
ehvm5b62xqg2fvkz