Comments on: The Scissoring Distraction http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/08/the-scissoring-distraction.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/08/the-scissoring-distraction.html/comment-page-1#comment-9270 John Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:56:52 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=5660#comment-9270 Not on subject but I ran across this surprisingly positive article about a gentleman's club that I went to growing up in Denver that I thought you might be interested in. Women owned and all, it kind of spoiled me for the few other clubs that I've gown to since the 80s. Anyway, enjoy http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_15571341?source=pop Not on subject but I ran across this surprisingly positive article about a gentleman’s club that I went to growing up in Denver that I thought you might be interested in.

Women owned and all, it kind of spoiled me for the few other clubs that I’ve gown to since the 80s.

Anyway, enjoy
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_15571341?source=pop

]]> By: Alan Ralph http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/08/the-scissoring-distraction.html/comment-page-1#comment-9269 Alan Ralph Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:52:15 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=5660#comment-9269 To paraphrase Leo Laporte: "SCREW YOU, FACEBOOK!" :D Looks like the Places stuff is now live for us UK folks. I've not got any GPS-enabled devices on me, so I'm safe for now, but I'm probably going to turn off all all that location crap. If I want to let people know I'm having a good time, I'll do it the old-fashioned way, by blogging about it, or taking a photo and posting it later on. I've seen the Foursquare stuff in people's tweets, and that stuff leaves me cold, to be honest. I love Facebook as a way to stay in touch with my friends, and to share stuff I find on the Internet, so I'm loath to delete my account. I've already locked down who can see what on my profile, etc. Guess I'll just have to keep my ear to the ground for the latest on how to undo whatever tweak Facebook decided to do next... :P To paraphrase Leo Laporte: “SCREW YOU, FACEBOOK!” :D

Looks like the Places stuff is now live for us UK folks. I’ve not got any GPS-enabled devices on me, so I’m safe for now, but I’m probably going to turn off all all that location crap. If I want to let people know I’m having a good time, I’ll do it the old-fashioned way, by blogging about it, or taking a photo and posting it later on. I’ve seen the Foursquare stuff in people’s tweets, and that stuff leaves me cold, to be honest.

I love Facebook as a way to stay in touch with my friends, and to share stuff I find on the Internet, so I’m loath to delete my account. I’ve already locked down who can see what on my profile, etc. Guess I’ll just have to keep my ear to the ground for the latest on how to undo whatever tweak Facebook decided to do next… :P

]]> By: Bacchus http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/08/the-scissoring-distraction.html/comment-page-1#comment-9266 Bacchus Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:45:02 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=5660#comment-9266 You know I hate all of these "services" with a passion. Whether it's "free" blogging services, photo sharing, or various kinds of social media, I've seen too many cycles of the inevitable "burn" stories that crop up when corporate motivations clash with user interests. I've flirted with Twittr and Tumblr, but even there I know the burn is coming. And yet the social <b>benefits</b> of social media are so obviously compelling, people have a hard time staying away (or canceling their accounts) to avoid corporate abuse, unless they started out as anti-social curmudgeons and refusniks like me who still think email is a perfectly fine tool for staying in touch. The "obvious" answer is a toolset for social networking that takes the power out of corporate hands and distributes it into the hands of the user. Some sort of open source social media toolset, though you'd probably also need peer-to-peer distributed hosting without corporate megabucks serverfarms to run the thing. You know I hate all of these “services” with a passion. Whether it’s “free” blogging services, photo sharing, or various kinds of social media, I’ve seen too many cycles of the inevitable “burn” stories that crop up when corporate motivations clash with user interests. I’ve flirted with Twittr and Tumblr, but even there I know the burn is coming.

And yet the social benefits of social media are so obviously compelling, people have a hard time staying away (or canceling their accounts) to avoid corporate abuse, unless they started out as anti-social curmudgeons and refusniks like me who still think email is a perfectly fine tool for staying in touch.

The “obvious” answer is a toolset for social networking that takes the power out of corporate hands and distributes it into the hands of the user. Some sort of open source social media toolset, though you’d probably also need peer-to-peer distributed hosting without corporate megabucks serverfarms to run the thing.

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