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Public Files and Increased File Sizes.

Last month they launched the new feature of sharing files to the public. You can now share your personal files with your friends, fans, and the Pownce community at large. In addition, they have increased the base file size limit for all Powncers from 10MB to 100MB. If you are a pro member, like me, you get 250MB.

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Avatar Expression

I am still chewing over some comments on metrics and while I think it over I decided to take a quick look at avatars and expression. A question was asked in a forum along the lines of whether Second Life is a good medium or not for education?

I believe that yes for raw creativity, accessability, presence and simulation it is a great medium, but as learning relies heavily on communication it is hampered because much of human communication is non-verbal, we are hitting a hurdle and most do not realize it.

Someone asked if “non-verbal” communication would dissappear?

No. We will find work arounds for now. We have been for years.

IM and Micro Chunking

For example with Instant Messaging (IM) language has become compressed and we use emoticons to express emotion. Micro-chunked formats like Jaiku, Twitter, or Pownce also incite compression because in many instances Web to SMS services limit characters to 140 or so.This also exerts a force on how we express thought and use language. We adapt our messages and form “work arounds”. It is so common as to permeate popular cell phone commercials.

I have even played Uni-code characters in Twitter and thought how that might be used like a pseudo-cuneiform script. Cuneiform is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Created by the Sumerians from ca. 3000 BC it started as as a system of pictographs. The pictorial representations faded and became simplified and more abstract.

Cultural Illiteracy

The same holds true in the work place and in different cultures. In other cultures there are numerous non-verbal cues as an American I never pick up on, because I do not know the language. Either we misunderstand or we adapt and find workarounds.

Online Board or Strategy Games

Even online card games or chess game strategies force us to relearn or change tactics. Even in logic games like chess opponents can “read” critical non-verbal feedback. A furrowed brow over moving a rook, or a smirk as a knight forks a king with check and limbs a queen. If chess is subject to this, it is no surprise that poker or blackjack or card games which use “tells” or non-verbal cues are really affected. I don’t know if anyone has monitored say “cursor” or “mouse behavior” or even eye tracking, but I think we send these signals because we are conditioned too.

The Misleading Avatar

Avatars, and there are many forms, can be extremely misleading. Even in expressive worlds like Second Life where customization is paramount. The Avatar may look healthy and fine, but the person or personality driving it might actually feel sick or have a disablity or send signals we cannot read because they do not translate.

I came to realize this when I realized how difficult it was for an avatar to express grief or another to provide solace to that Avatar and this has happened twice.

As a society we have not really “scripted” for that yet…we have scripted for lots of other stuff though…hugs, kisses, and other “behavior”, but a wide range of emotions or expressions are missing. Perhaps they are still too “synthetic” so we have to rely on overt behaviors and interpret them.

Somehow I think we will get there, or get closer, as 3D worlds become more integral to our lives because non-verbal communication is critical to everything we do. We cannot afford to “work-around” too much.

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Pay attention- this is an important concept- “Social Proprioception”

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We kick off this story with Robert Scoble wanting to play Scrabulous inside of Facebook. Cool- I am up for it and figure since I am on vacation- gaming would be good. Let us note his blog entries…

Off we Go: (in FACEBOOK) Wayne is playing Scrabulous with Robert. 11:16pm

GAME ACTION

Wayne Porter opens up with TARP for 12
Robert Scoble responds with plural ROOFS for 10.
Wayne Porter responds with ORDAIN for 9
Robert Scoble responds with TELL for 4

Now making the match 21-14.

Wayne Porter gets aggressive and plays TILLED for 14 and Robert….well

THE GAME GETS BETTER

Read these “micro-chunks” and “cross terrain” diversions…This is what happens when a Media Navigator/Security Researcher and a Mega-Blogger & Media Evangelist armed with video (and neither have ever met) try to play a new game…inside of a social platform. Bicameralism in popular culture? Think Neal Stephenson and first several books (The Big U, Zodiac, Snow Crash) tackle the bicameral mind theory…Snow Crash again…

WAYNE PORTER- TWEETS

These are my responses as I interact with Robert while his attention is split in a number of ways…and I attempt to get it using the Skype connector. The timeline is hard to follow because frankly- I am worn out.

Get the whole stream here via RSS or select from here.

LOL Scoble is twittering during our first Facebook Scrabulous game. Media junkie! about 2 hours ago from web

Just changed his Skype topic to http://twitter.com/wporter/… about 2 hours ago from web 4 minutes ago from Facebook in reply to Scobleizer.

Skype topic with Robert is now http://www.pownce.com/Corwi… (which throws this out of whack again) about 1 hour ago from web

@Scobleizer LOL- took a Skweet (hybrid Skype-Tweet) to catch you- I implore your wife to get you a “hyper-media intervention specialist”. about 2 hours ago from web in reply to Scobleizer

With Others Previous What am I thinking? I need to invent something that streams RSS into a P2PTV client that functions with an I.V. line and G-Tube. (This … … about 1 hour ago from Facebook)

@Scobleizer SMS from here on out…I know our game is on hold, but I have this written up and it needs to cross some more terrain.

4:03am FOR GOOD MEASURE

Wayne sent a free gift to Robert Scoble. Inside of Facebook- a JPG of a Turtle with the note-

“Thank God it isn’t Chess” and the E-mail option off. He will never see that…micro-chunkers hate e-mail.

So we are a few moves into the game…and

ROBERT NOT ONLY TWITTERING- BUT PRODUCING: SAMPLE

Robert created a new kyte show. 4:06am

Robert wrote a new WordPress blog post. 3:59am

Robert Scoble wrote Amazon rolls out Flexible Payment Service at Scobleizer.

Robert wrote a new WordPress blog post. 3:19am

Robert Scoble wrote What the hell is up with our kids today? at Scobleizer.

Robert updated Twitter. 3:18am

Inspirational 14-year-old geek: http://tinyurl.com/2g875x — what is happening to our youth today?

Robert posted a video. 2:45am

At the same time twittering during all of this production and it took a Tweet into a Skype Chat Title to “get attention”

ROBERT’S TWITTER TIMELINE

(note in reverse order- last is first)

i just put up my face talking about Amazon http://tinyurl.com/ywuzg5 25 minutes ago from twitterrific

I love Kyte.tv 26 minutes ago from twitterrific

@balaji_dutt: I hate direct messages. Everything I do I like doing in public. That way nothing is ever hidden from you. 30 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to balaji_dutt

@JeffBarr: OK, let’s do something when I am up in Seattle for Gnomedex. I’ll be there the two days after Gnomedex and my schedule is open. 38 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to jeffbarr

@ChrisSaad: everyone knows my number. I’m just trying to keep the line open. 40 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to ChrisSaad

@JeffBarr: only if you can find them in the next few minutes. I want you. 41 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to jeffbarr

(That’s for Jeff Barr only please). 42 minutes ago from twitterrific

Wanna call me at 425-205-1921 right now? 43 minutes ago from twitterrific

Jeff, can we do a voice interview? 43 minutes ago from twitterrific

@JeffBarr is going to own TechMeme because this is brilliant to tease us and keep us waiting for his post. 44 minutes ago from twitterrific in reply to jeffbarr

@ccmehil: hold that thought until next week. I’d love to find a way to get him a MacBook. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ccmehil

@ratherfancy: when i was 14 I was playing with computers, but not seriously. I think I was watching too much Star Wars. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ratherfancy

I forgot about Susan Wojcicki. her garage is where Google started. http://tinyurl.com/n2mpl about 1 hour ago from twitterrific

@ChrisVanPatten: yeah, it’s just fun when you meet someone who is so put together at 14. I’d love to meet you too. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific

@ravbaker: this kid is just amazing. I don’t know where kids like this come from. about 1 hour ago from twitterrific in reply to ravbaker

Inspirational 14-year-old geek: http://tinyurl.com/2g875x — what is happening to our youth today? about 1 hour ago from twitterrific

@wporter: it’s even worse than that. Im watching the Simpsons, reading feeds, AND playing you at Scrabulous! about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to wporter

@jabancroft: yeah, if Jeff Barr tells us his Amazon secrets it’ll only be between the three of us! Heheheh. about 2 hours ago from twitterrific in reply to jabancroft

@JeffBarr has us all hot and bothered over some rumbling from Amazon. OK, Jeff, spill the beans! about 3 hours ago from

Robert- behind on the game or the schedule? (Wayne notes next time challenge Robert to Tic-Tac-Toe…less attention needed)

SKYPE DIRECT CONNECT

Now recall I am changing Skype topics (WE HAD IT OPEN WHOLE TIME) from time to time…our attention to the game in an ephemeral fashion, while both working on things. I am on east coast- he is on west. His first response to lack of movement is when I post a Twitter URL into the Topic of Skype.

For the sake of learning something, or maybe a chuckle…I’ll post a snip or so, I think he will understand. Not like it would stop me anyway- that whole Monkey Phone Call thing and all…water under the bridge. Note times.

[12:25:47 AM] Wayne Porter says: you alive on scrabble or is this a multi-day game?

[12:45:47 AM] Robert Scoble says: I just got back.

[12:45:53 AM] Robert Scoble says: So, will join in shortly.

[12:46:07 AM] Wayne Porter says: k- i’ll debate harrelson on social labeling in interim

[1:32:23 AM] Wayne Porter says: are you multi-tasking?

[1:42:49 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Spell Feldman for $10 donation to app makers”

[2:20:05 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “http://twitter.com/wporter/statuses/183941132”

[2:29:49 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Tragic http://twitter.com/wporter/statuses/183951402”

[2:41:26 AM] Wayne Porter has changed the chat topic to “Can’t help himself http://www.pownce.com/CorwinCorp/notes/415772/forward/”

[3:10:20 AM] Robert Scoble says: heh, yeah. I’m way behind, though.

[3:10:50 AM] Wayne Porter says: i was almost sending you an SMS

WAYNE WAS BUSY TOO

A smattering…again in reverse order- latest first where my attention was.

Wayne sent a free gift to Robert Scoble. 4:03am ( A Turtle with message saying “Thank God This Isn’t a Chess Game.)

Wayne updated Twitter. 11:59pm
@samharrelson olds on Sokal was weak, let’s say check and I offer up Noam Chomsky…

Wayne updated Twitter. 11:48pm
@chrispirillo Never did- until the iPhone…now I do.

Wayne updated Twitter. 11:43

@Scobleizer Java Locked on IE- I am good to go with Firefox…will trace Java app next time…your move. Sam jump in…u can put PHD to use

During this span I was talking to my son, debating Sam on post-modernism at CostPerNews.com, syncing up podcasts with the new iPhone (yes- it is changing how I take in media), making my Facebook post-modern joke about Crowley to riposte at Sam over his slap at my Sokal inspired attack on post-modernism, twittering and reading up on educational labeling and implications for marketing. (Sam I think you are a genius, but you are wrong- I’ll gather more research.)

Labeling Theory Tested: Pygmalion in the Classroom
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the Classroom. New York: Rinehart and Winston.

“they then selected 20 percent of the students at random - without any regard to their intelligence test results - and told the teachers that these students could be expected to “bloom” or “spurt” in their academics that year. At the end of the year, they came back and re-tested all the students.”

….

Labeling matters, and the younger the person getting the label is, the more it matters

I know it is from 1968- is that still contemporary?

To close… I am about to fire off an SMS- hell yes I am, but there is movement in Facebook- crafty Scoble…at around 5:33 am I check in game…

Robert has moved in with a play of RETELL for 6 bringing him to 20….

I’m holding all kinds of weird letters, but have had time to think while I was writing this post, fortunately I had a BLANK tile, and the good fortune of having a grand-father-in-law who invented automated biochemistry. I recalled “OXYACID” from a happy hour talk being any acid that contains oxygen (we were discussing zinc air fuel cells and/or something about renin-angio tension cycle and hypertension I think).

I recalled common ones include sulfuric acid- H2+SO4 or phosphoric acid H3PO4 + H2O or Nitric Acid H+N+O3. Yes a bit archaic, but so was the chemist. Good for 27 points.

Porter: 62
Scoble: 20

At 5:54 Eastern I write in-game “I can’t believe I or you are still at this and I am documenting it…we have lost it.”

. At least I have, and really not lost it- I have found “it”. Fast, efficient, compressed communication.

Because while Robert Tweets, as do birds outside my window- and they are twittering like many people are- this game isn’t over yet…57 Tiles left. I still have to go in Second Life- so Robert- I hope you are not awake. If you move- Twitter me- I’ll have on my SLTweets HUD which is terrain agnostic- no matter how alien SL is- the message can travel.

In the end I am going to just blame Evan Williams founder of Obvious…although I am sorry to hear about Sarah’s tooth Ev. (See personal nature of Twitter)

Thanks for all this fun as Sam documents Robert’s video on Twitter HQ.

This stuff isn’t hard to understand because the concept is simple, although it maybe a bit hard on the people out exploring, stretching and flying around the fast growth and implications of the movement. It might also be hard to swallow for those who have a vested interest in the top-down structure.

This “micromedia” is here to stay…not all companies will survive but the die is cast and that alphabetical caste system is not as important.

Your move Robert…take your time. The media is your choice of course, and where and when you choose to focus your attention is yours as is mine. The brief feeling of overload goes away once people have earned the attention- and anyone can earn today.

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Deconstructing only on what I know. Stream that acts recursively to site or dated.

- Ponder Path of Widgets on February 2, 2007 via Steve.

- Go Gonzo and exposed to Twitter via Sam. Post at RN January 21, 2007

- Note Twit to Sam March, 16, 2007

- Twitter Tracking with Fleep date unknown.

- Fleep makes a tweet (short post) about a teacher’s conference on March 14, 2007

- I follow her stream, blog on March 18, 2007.

- Meanwhile, Fleep reads my old post on March 14, 2007

- Her Read based on my blog on Steve’s embeded widget dated March 26, 2007,

- Retrograde Note: Know Steve via Brian Clark’s (circa 1999) and series of posts- summed up August, 28, 2006.

- Fleep tweets about the video. March 18, 2007

- The entire loop prompts me to document the action in a blog entry March 18, 2007

- Injected back into Twitter March 18, 2007

- This inspired by Sam on Twitter adoption story via WSJ March 16, 2007

- Sam’s blog based on Wall Street Journal story March 16, 2007

- Circle completes and I “meet” Fleep July 27th, 2007

- Recap with addendum. August 2, 2007

- August 2, 2007 injected into facebook…perhaps via twitter.

There has to be more. I cannot see it all- maybe Steve can shed light on widget views of the video? It still sits at University of Cincinnati and on blogs. What effect continues to pulse from this “frozen knowledge”

Commonly called “social media”- it is really only media that we socialize around.

Note the players in the pattern- blog, video, widgets, twitter, conversation, inspiration, virtual meeting…and elements unknown.

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Paperghost serves up photos (nostalgia) behind our RSA 2007 trek…this post was short enough it should have been a “tweet”. I am beginning to think most communications could be tweets. Instead it got Pownced. Now I am fool enough to accept Sam Harrelson’s test of Grand Central and Spock…Facebook I resist- for now. I look for Google to sweep that up…

ADDENDUM- Why would Google sweep it up? Vinny Lingham’s take is pretty telling.

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Sam has been Powncing ahead as usual and hat tip to him for the invite. Right off the bat I can say I Kevin Rose’s Pownce (and I still like twitter) feels like a better thought out Twitter. Not surprising since Twitter was way ahead and I think Ev and team were experimental…and blazed a path. I fought Twitter for quite awhile…not any more. Micro-chunk, thin-sliced, easy to read, make it simple, fast-delivery is good. I still haven’t seen what I want though in a type of application like this for certain goals so I am going to have my biz buddy Don (of SLTweets.com), you know the guy that tools around with me in virtual worlds, create this- I hope…He may slap me, I may pawn him. Hard to say.

It took me 5 minutes to sign up for Pownce and go Pro. I do have an invite left after tapping colleagues (I think)…just reply with ‘Hey Wayne- Pownce me” or feel free to go off on why you think micro-chunking information is where it is at or not. I liked the no ads option. I do not mind to pay a fair price for software- I far prefer it to ads. If I have it- I will hook you up.

Social networking- gosh. Between E-mail, skypes, My Page (last), IM, Twits, RSS, phone calls, video conferences…is it any wonder we feel a bit awash in communications? That is why I liked twitter- I could get it when I needed it and that is why I have been relatively silent for awhile. I was more productive creating off grid, however it is very useful for idea absorption and synthesis. Let’s not forget- good blogging, at any pace is hard work. Micro-chunked messages that are aggregated over time makes a blog a good canon for “twitter’ or ‘Pownce” or any sort of this.

From site:

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You can access all of your Pownce notes just on our website or you can download a small program for your computer.

The software is available right now for Windows and Mac users and will available for Linux soon too. It takes advantage of a new technology from Adobe called AIR, which is super useful.

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