MemeStreams | The Difference

Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

Sarah Silverman:

You're very free if you don't love money.

Martin Wolf:

If you want to accumulate enduring wealth, do not lend to grasshoppers.

Bruce Nussbaum:

It is not impossible to monetize that which is free. Apple did that with 99 cent songs on iTunes. But it is difficult.

Ian Bogost:

Mark Zuckerberg has taken up the reigns of involuntary public life's dark chariot from Josh Harris, but the fascism and exhibitionism remain the same. The scale has changed too: instead of a hundred residents, Zuckerberg rules over 400 million. Harris's tiny tragedy has become everyone's. The only difference is, most of us don't even notice.
Like the manure catcher on a draft horse, online services collect and disseminate the exhaust of our lives without us even noticing. Any idiot can live in public.

Steven Johnson:

There used to be a large crevasse separating the intimate space of private life and what's exposed by the klieg lights of fame. But in the Facebook age, that crevasse has broadened out into a valley between the realms of privacy and celebrity, and we are starting to camp out there and get the lay of the land. The fascinating and troublesome thing about the valley is that the rules of engagement there are not clearly defined, and it's likely that they will stay undefined.
It is going to take some time to learn how to live there.

Robert Scoble:

We want to present ourselves to other people the way we would like to have other people perceive us as.
Translation: I'd rather be seen as someone who eats salad at Pasta Moon than someone who eats a Big Mac at McDonalds.
This is the problem with likes and other explicit sharing systems. We lie and we lie our asses off.