filt*r this!

hello all.

well, its back to uni again and believe it or not, we’re in week 6! HOLY MOLEY! =S

Anyways, I found it ironic that  this week’s reading focuses on the economies/ecologies of attention and information and yet i am having great difficulty paying attention to what i am supposed to be doing.

Speaking of attention and filtering, i was reading the mx paper today, and on the front page there was an article by Henry Budd about “Google users given the ability to tailor what shows up when they search their name.” So pretty much, you can create your own google profile  to share with others and vary (filter =P) what you want others to see.  These profiles would contain basic information and pictures as well as links to other sites of their’s such as Flickr and Twitter.

And for all the John Smith’s out there, the more information people enter into their profile, the better the chance your profile will be displayed.

I found this article really interesting to read because if you think back to Holme’s reading i think? the one with the table that compared media 1.0 and media 2.0, how they say that the internet offers individuality, a sense of self identity that evades state control -> you are your own author, theres no heirarchy of who gets control of what information on the web and yet here with google profiles, in a way Google gets to control what others want to search for when they type in your name simply by filtering out what you put in.

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