jeremy snyder’s meta|remix

i was interviewed recently on 93.8 live to talk about co-space, and metaversum’s involvement with it. you can find the audio file here.

neo weewu has a post about a fun morning chat i had with 3 other guys here in singapore. you should check it out!

i was at the library here in singapore, and this book just jumped out at me somehow, while i was browsing books nearby on the shelf.
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i just searched for myself on facebook, just typed in “jeremy snyder” and hit enter. somehow i don’t appear at all, but going through 6 pages of search results, i see mostly duplicates. weird.

i’ve heard a lot of the hype around friendfeed, both on the positive side (quick, easy, great for keeping informed) and negative (overload, overkill, too much information). my very quick initial feedback.

• getting started was easy
• sign-up was simple and quick
• getting my first 5 services installed was also painless
• it couldn’t find my webmail contacts, except for gmail
• only 4 of my gmail contacts use it

so bottom line: without the necessary “critical mass” of my friends using it, i’ll leave it alone.

so i’ve been living in singapore now for about 3 months, since august. i really like it, and i’m a big fan of the public transit system here. it’s clean, runs on time, has air conditioning, and doesn’t allow durian.

No durian on MRT!

but there’s one thing that drives me crazy. the buses are so jerky and make such violent sudden movements that it knocks people over, or into each other, on a regular basis. add to that the fact that most people use buses for getting to/from running their errands, like shopping, and you have a bunch of bag-laden people slam dancing in traffic.

seriously, why can’t the bus drivers just accelerate and decelerate more smoothly? if they do that, i won’t even complain about the fear of crashing when they stop the buses 1 millimeter from each other.

a few months ago, danah boyd published her latest thoughts about facebook’s violation of user privacy, and in a previous post, she had talked about owning your own identity.

i’m starting to think that we’re soon going to live in a world where you have to pick either total privacy or total openness. and every one of us is going to have to decide which side we fall in. i tend towards the openness side, especially in business life. for instance, i’ve previously talked about how i’m not a real fan of stealth mode for startups.

but here’s the rub - who has time to be so open? i had this conversation with a guy last night. he mentioned that he uses twitter. i do, too. but, i never visit their web site. i send my tweets via ping.fm, and i love that i can update my own blog using it. so it’s funny - i want to be open and “out there” and tell anyone interested what’s going on. and i don’t even mind if random stalkers show up to find out about me. but who has the time?

at least the status side of it is. i’ll be testing the blogging tools soon.