{"id":302393,"date":"2010-02-10T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-757527301401076272"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:13:42","slug":"the-buzz-profile-problem-i-am-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302393","title":{"rendered":"The Buzz profile problem: I am Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is <\/em>Legion<\/em><\/a>; for we are many many (<\/em>Mark 5-9<\/em><\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I am father, brother, in-law, son, and spouse. I am coach. I am volunteer. I am citizen and activist. I am a physician. I am an (adjunct) professor. I am an oddity in a large, conservative, publicly traded corporation. In the corporation I am a team member, known to some customers, occasionally publicly facing, known in various ways and various places. I have other roles and have had many more over time.<\/p>\n

I am Legion. So are most middle-aged persons.<\/p>\n

Only one person knows all the roles and all of the stories that are not excruciatingly boring (hi Emily).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the problem with Google Buzz<\/a>, and why my Google Profile<\/a> doesn\u2019t include<\/a> my pseudonymous (John Gordon<\/a>) blog postings or my Google Shared items<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buzz is tightly linked to my Google Profile, and my Profile is trivially discoverable. I don\u2019t want corporate HR or a customer or business partner to instantly know that I\u2019m a commie pinko Obamafanboy with a dysfunctional Steve Jobs relationship.<\/p>\n

I have LinkedIn<\/a> as my bland corporate face<\/a>, and, despite Facebook\u2019s<\/a> innate<\/a> evilness<\/a>, a FB profile for friends and family. Inside the corporation I\u2019ve a blog that serves as a limited persona.<\/p>\n

We all have many roles<\/a>, identities<\/a>, avatars, personae<\/a>, limited liability personae<\/a>, characters, facets<\/a> and so on. The problem with Buzz today is that it\u2019s tied to the Google Profile, and that profile is the closest thing to my unified<\/em> public face. It crosses boundaries. So it can only hold the limited information channels that are available to all.<\/p>\n

Google gets some things right, and a ton of things wrong. They take a statistical, loosely-coupled, evolutionary approach to technology development (the exact inverse of Jobs the Intelligent Designer). I\u2019m looking forward to where Buzz goes, but I\u2019ll be cautious for a time. They can start by giving us more control over what aspects of the overall Buzz connection stream appear on our public profiles.<\/p>\n

Update 2\/11\/10<\/b>: More on the mess-up<\/a>. Google really didn’t think this through very well. They may end up feeding the families of a number of lawyers. I’m sure they weren’t dumb enough to roll this out in the EU, but if they did the fines may be significant.<\/p>\n

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My name is Legion; for we are many many (Mark 5-9). I am father, brother, in-law, son, and spouse. I am coach. I am volunteer. I am citizen and activist. I am a physician. I am an (adjunct) professor. I am an oddity in a large, conservative, publicly traded corporation. In the corporation I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}