"Frictionless sharing - exploring the changes to Facebook" - a piece I've written for FUMSI magazine http://bit.ly/z930Wc

Much as I loathe the whole ghastly "frictionless sharing" thing, some useful thoughts/pointers by @currybet http://tinyurl.com/6rvnqx7

@ppetej frictionless sharing is interesting I think for academics - it certainly shaped the way I wrote my last book

Worth a read on facebook's 'frictionless sharing' by @currybet http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/65689

@mweller Your "foraging" of others' bookmarks, blogs etc? Aren't they (up to now) mostly result of (relatively) "conscious"/active sharing?

@ppetej eg. when I was writing ppl would add cc @mweller to tweets on relevant topics, because it doesn't cost them much

@mweller Oh, yes, but that is a very active/conscious share on their part. It's easy to do, but it still requires a decision by the sharer

@ppetej yes, but the cost is _near_ frictionless. And tools like scoop.it, tumblr etc removes much of the friction - makes it a diff beast

@ppetej @mweller Moving to an age of personal PR machines and RTs over churnalism...

@mweller @ppetej is that folk are building "collections" that is valuable, and as you skim the chaff you spot what for you may be the wheat?

@mweller Yes, agreed, but I see a difference between that & recent Fb "frictionless" developments, where "action" is a one-off opt-in....

@mweller ... of which consequences may be unclear

@ppetej ok, so I think we're talking about diff interpretations of frictionless then, I'm using it in non-tool specific way

@psychemedia @ppetej the democracy angle is interesting - before I'd need to know WorldExpert X to get at their reading list, now we all can

@mweller Right. It's the recent Fb "frictionlessness" that worries me, which I think differs from yr use e.g. here http://tinyurl.com/5qjcmn

@ppetej yes, in that case - I agree! As you were.

@psychemedia @mweller And what we think is our "personal PR" may be the result of what an FB algorithm selects for yr timeline :)

@ppetej @mweller Right.. there is:a) the decision to share, b) maybe w/ a cc, c) on a particular network; then there may also be d) an..

@psychemedia @mweller Good stuff. I'm also interested in how we risk projecting (mis)interpret ations of acts of "liking"/"favouriting" etc.

@psychemedia @mweller e.g. Pretty sure Stan Collymore didn't like the Tweets he "favourited" to highlight abuse

@ppetej @mweller Right... the updates are speech acts of a sort but we lose the semantics/tone relating to sense in which they're uttered?

@ppetej @mweller I often assume the sense is: "Seen this?", or "I bring this to your attention"; emoticons also useful in deciphering tone

@psychemedia @mweller Yes, indeed. Or may be just "link to read later"! So need good deal of care before using them as "impact measures"

@ppetej @mweller I so don't know what impact is! I'm currently pondering http://bit.ly/rE18YV then follow apitricks link in this respect

@ppetej @mweller important thing about that example i found the linked resource recently and thought it was a powerful trick; then ..