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Over at Black Belt Jones, Matt is attempting to use social networking technology to attain a specific goal: he wants to sit down and talk to Brian Eno within the next two months.
This experiment reminds me of the chapter in Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone where he critiques the Web because it primarily provides its users with information, and fails to fulfill desires for anything other than more information. For Bey, information is useful only inasmuch as it enables the fulfillment of real-world desires (especially forbidden / illegal ones), and he views most of the information available through the Web as irrelevant to attaining these desires. Dating sites like Nerve, or social networking sites like Friendster, which hadn't emerged at the time of Bey's writing, present themselves as tools for the fulfillment of specific real-world desires (friendship, sex, lunch with Brian Eno), and, as such, they seem to be offering the right carrot, but the real question is how effective they are at delivering on this promise. So I'll be intrigued to see whether Matt Jones gets his wish.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
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