Buzz in, Buzz off, Buzz out...

Right, well my Buzz Stream (yes that is what I am calling it and I may have to claim ownership of that phrase if no one else is using it yet. I kinda like it so there) seems to be made up of entries from just two people and one of them is me. Either I have no friends left except for the magnicifant McCrudden, or Google's Buzz isnt as popular as it was in the first 24 hours.

There has been a lot of hoo-hah/hullabaloo/kerfuffle/commotion/turmoil (choose appropriately) about Google's Buzz. A lot of complaints about invasion of privacy etc. One minor starlett (some ex Buffy star that I cant rememebr the name of) suddenly found herself receiving thousands of comments on her personal gmail account. Boohoo I hear you say and I'm inclined to agree. After all, dont be in the public eye if you dont, well, want to be in the public eye, especially if your only claim to fame was a teenage vampire show 15 years ago. But, it does raise an interesting point for the rest of us. I for one didnt want to be automatically followed by some of my previous work colleagues as I'm quite likely to call one of them something they might take offense to in one of my blog posts, though to be fair, they are mostly a bunch of wankers and I know it shouldn't bother me. It's the principle of the thing I guess. 

If I was more like  I wouldn't even have a blog. She is so private she has several personas that have been created to fulfil the purpose of anonimity. A whole, completely seperate personality for things that require forms to be filled out, but that dont really require it to be you. You know the times, like when you need to log in to a particular website and they want you to register first and so on. A standing phrase in her family is "never give more inforamtion then you absolutely have to". Well I guess I can understand that too and maybe I am too open about whom knows anything about me. I am sure I will find my identity cloned and my bank accounts emptied in the not too distant future as a result, but I quite like this community of shared experience. It's a way to keep in touch for sure and you will always get the inevitable celeb stalking peeps and probably some will even find ways of adapting it to the sex industry in some way,  but despite all that I still think any new technology or ways of using technolog  is just plain cool. Maybe more in a Bill Gates kinda way and not in a Fonz kinda way, but just look at the developments we have already seen in our lifetime. Highly portable music systems, portable video, the internet, flat screen TV's 3D TV's, truely global instant communication and so much more. Simply amazing, I cant wait to see whats next. Yes, there will always be some that impress more than others (Google Wave for instance.*) but that is the nature of progress. Bring it on.


*Yes I know Google Wave was principaly a dev kit to be used to power other products/programs and not supposed to be a glossy finished product in itself. And yes I also know that Google Buzz in all likelyhood has a Wave underbelly.