Different Kinds of Trust Online
Many of my friends recently gathered in Florence and I have been following their conversations via their blog and flickr. This one snippet triggered my thoughts about a different kind of trust I see in networks of bloggers and blog readers: Summary of the Conversation about changes of conversation — Friday night � Prato Dialogue: "Patricia: topic of blogs is nebulous for me. Have had many of these conversations with John and Bev, but I’m still doubtful. I find it difficult in this conversation. Language is one barrier. (Perhaps we continue in German tomorrow?) In this blog discussion I see a question of trust. I need to know with whom I’m taking. That’ the opposite of the blogger’s attitude. Whoever is reading it is problematic. It’s too anonymous. Trust is missing. Can’t solve it right now. Want to get to the restaurant."
I went on to comment (and as of the moment, my comment is in the moderation queue):Hey friends,
I just have to share this. I’m sitting in Shawn Callahan’s house, he is on a plane from Sydney to Melbourne after leaving you. I just showed the flickr picture to his family (and we laughed and were a bit jealous). So look at that bit of straddling.
I am also preparing for the workshops and presentations I’ll be doing here in Australia and have been jotting down snippets from your session notes that amplify the ideas and topics I’m planning. So in a way, I’m porting your conversational artefacts to yet another setting.
The trust issue, Patricia, is very salient. I was talking a few weeks ago with John and Etienne about a different kind of trust I see in network systems, like blog networks, and I think there is a very strong informational trust. Not that I have to get to know you to trust you ,but I have to get to know what you write about and how you write about it to trust you. But it is a different sort of trust. Not so much about personal identity, but domain related identity. Does that make any sense?
I shall be crediting all of you in my work here over the next 3.5 weeks!
Tags: cpsquare,, pratodialog,, australianoctober
posted by Nancy White at 11:35 PM
2 Comments:
I am agree - trust is most difficult to share and get :(
When I started blogging, I had the trust that it is fun to do (mainly from talks with you and Beth), and when I started writing I didn't have the feeling I was writing to the world, I was writing to a small group of people whom I knew would read my blog.
With the millions of blogs, I never had the feeling too many people would read my blog. For me the reading and writing were also connected after I started writing. That made the relationship more equal (in my feeling).
Have fun in Australia!
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