May 31, 2006

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    This was the sophisticated ciphering system I devised for keeping track of how far I ran yesterday.  Each time I completed a lap, I added a stone to the road.  Each lap was .3 miles.  I found this to be very self-entertaining.  Gives you an idea of how easily I am entertained.



    I talked with John, Chief Visionary and CEO of Xanga, for a lengthy time today (each stone equals aprrox. 3 minutes) about the new Rating System and other things ... like Photobucket and Myspace and censorship and vibrators...and even some of you!  While he shared with me insight into some of the future details of ratings (like the assessment and function of cross-ratings, the display of ratings, under what conditions Xanga might intercede, etc.), what was most interesting - what became most clear to me from our discussion - is that John is a public service hero attempting to save Xanga at any cost from the type of descent into censorship that we now see on Photobucket and Myspace and Friendster, etc.    The other social networks make it easy on themselves: they scrutinize everyone, censor the questionable, and push on.  They are succumbing to a huge special interest on the internet demanding broad censorship "to protect our kids".   John, on the other hand with the Xanga Rating System, is bucking that censorship system.  He is attempting to stratify rated content with a matched-up content viewer - believing that by leveraging discretion with a Xanga demographic (Age), Xanga can eliminate the need to resort to broad censorship. 


    I hugely hail his effort. 


    And if, down the road, Xanga devised DFC - Discretionary Featured Content - featuring only those who are proud to be discretionary and whose content reflects it, then maybe I'd find (D)Featured Content an interesting feature again.  Hell, might even be like old times     ...naw.

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