In FB land things need to change. Already they have had several major and public stuff ups – not that stuff ups are bad as they provide invaluable learning experience.

It’s just that my Blink feeling is that these actions are becoming more and more desperate. At worst, I think these could be the death knell for FB (probably just a slide into irrelevance) or what may be smarter is the exit of Mr Zuckerberg who is so far out of his league that the public business image of FB is now emabarrasing for all invloved.

I gave up FB a year ago, but got suckered back in as more people discovered it and friend count climbed. Then I suffered from ‘friend overload’ – just too much garbage information; I do not care that you’re picking your nose, or having a coffee.

I then started doing a very unFB thing and culled friends. Very carthatic and streamlined my information flow. However, as the reverse isn’t happening (ie my friends aren’t culling their friends) they are still getting far too much info for the average human and therefore reply to posts aren’t happening for me. There is little or no dialogue being created and so no community being built. I know no more about my friends than before FB existed. Now this is obviously a user centric experience but I believe that my friends aren’t the only ones who are in info overload.

Will the new features to FB save it? I think the ‘gunius’ (aka thief) kid Z’berg needs to go and be replaced by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Facebook Plans Changes to Friend Updates – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

I just finished a bottle of a new brand of bottled water called ‘deluge’. Horrible. Supposed to be ‘natural australian spring water’ (I know proper nouns are supposed to be capitalised but some too funky designer thought Nooooo, let’s make a statement – lucky they left the ‘y’ out!).
Tasted like, better be careful here, reflux. That’s right. If you’ve eaten a curry a bit too fast and it’s come back on you, with a beer, then that’s what this stuff tastes like. Stay away. Die of thirst. It’s that bad.

Recycling worker crushed into paper block | smh.com.au.

Gladwell's recent book 'Blink' is fascinating from many angles. From the job hunter's point of view he writes about how a prospective employer would be better off spending 10 minutes in a candidate's bedroom than meeting with them face-to-face for an hour at a time, once a week for a year. 52 hours v 10 minutes. However both are pretty much unlikely to occur.
The theory goes that we each have so much accumulated knowledge and general expertise in human nature that the signals that can be picked up from a prospective candidates bedroom are more telling than 52 hours of interviews. How I arrange my books, what books I read, what music is on my iPod, are the clothes all over the place or are they stacked neatly in colour order, what art work/posters adorn my walls.
Do you want a prospective employer wandering around your bedroom? I don't. So I think the answer is to turn our blogs into our bedrooms. Look at the stuff we put in our 'digital bedrooms' – you can see the ads I've created that I think are the best, my best work. You can see what book's I've read and want to read – how telling is that – plenty of Godin, no Proust. I've blogged about the movies I like and why and didn't like and why. You can see my passion, photography and what I think are my best pix. Catagorised. Filed. Sorted. Displayed. You can see my twitter updates and glean how open I am as a communicator. You may even be able to pick up on my sense of humour. Or lack thereof.
You can get to my LinkedIn profile and check out who I know professionally and where I've worked. And for whom.
As I look around my bedroom I can see every part of me; the good, the bad, the ugly.
So welcome to my bedroom. I'd be fascinated to know what you thought of me from what you see here.

Facebook get rich quick scam busted – web – Technology – smh.com.au.

TropFest 2009 Red Carpet – a set on Flickr.

Telstra executive sparks Microsoft security scare – BizTech – Technology.

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Whisper campaigns exposed: pay per lie on YouTube – BizTech – Technology.