tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28654998019151021102024-03-13T00:24:46.341-07:00The Thought VaultThe Thought Vaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162618254110312237noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865499801915102110.post-3086033785137703512016-04-14T23:32:00.001-07:002016-04-14T23:33:21.015-07:001994<span style="background-color: white; color: #516064; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px;">“</span><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #516064; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is fashionable to suggest that cyberspace is some island of the blessed where people are free to indulge and express their individuality. This is not right.</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #516064; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px;"> I have seen many people spill out their emotions – their guts – online and I did so myself until I started to see that I had</span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification" rel="wikipedia" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Commodification">commodified</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #516064; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px;"> myself. Commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money value. In the 19th century, commodities were made in factories by workers who were mostly exploited. But I created my interior thoughts as commodities for the corporations that owned the board I was posting to, like </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe" rel="wikipedia" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="CompuServe">CompuServe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #516064; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px;"> or </span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL" rel="wikipedia" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #ff8a00; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="AOL">AOL</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #516064; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.004px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.006px;">. And that commodity was then sold on to other consumer entities as entertainment. Cyberspace is a black hole, it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.” – Carmen Hermosillo a.k.a. ‘humdog’ (1994)</span>The Thought Vaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162618254110312237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865499801915102110.post-30983698361792855122010-09-13T23:11:00.000-07:002010-09-13T23:13:58.853-07:00The Thought Vault Prototype Icon...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1n7iwV3FdVcD0rQj3uvxII0cMnt9TAJI7THdd3Sx2grd27Odh5mr2ZBx6rwfRTS1sV4OpCktGpOn_kRhbg9D2X-R9DuHITLYqpbWapQJWwIDPAne9cDrsfJ4JuYyPKXrN0Q4xFZ3FFpv/s1600/thought.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1n7iwV3FdVcD0rQj3uvxII0cMnt9TAJI7THdd3Sx2grd27Odh5mr2ZBx6rwfRTS1sV4OpCktGpOn_kRhbg9D2X-R9DuHITLYqpbWapQJWwIDPAne9cDrsfJ4JuYyPKXrN0Q4xFZ3FFpv/s320/thought.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516648194691214802" border="0" /></a>The Thought Vaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12162618254110312237noreply@blogger.com0