7th Grade Playground Popularity Contest as Web 3.0 Biz Model?

On the lighter side of OIM, Mashable Reports:

Gleamd to Launch “Digg for People”: The idea of Gleamd is to spotlight interesting people who are doing interesting things on the Internet, they say: how useful that proves is debatable. You could also potentially use it to see if a group of strangers find you interesting.

This is interesting because the flip side of the coin to managing your online identity is that once OIM is defined and controlled by YOU, then the community gets to decide what that MEANS the "them." (Insert spooky, conspiracy-theory-provoking .mp3 file and a covert flash of the Neuralizer via tiny inverse-something-or-other pulse wave to the MacBook iCam).

Our social identities are all co-created by a ridiculously scatterbrained analogical committee; perhaps that's why we're all so messed up -- whether we recognize it or not. There is no single entity in our current human context who can claim the title of prototype "normal" ... no, not one. Roughly speaking, the analogical committee for Total Identity Definition and Integration (TIDI {tie-dye, of course}) is comprised of, at the very least: our individual genetic predisposition (nature), our formative upbringing (nurture), our immediate surroundings (environment), our ever-evolving -- hopefully -- developmental self-awareness (consciousness), the perceptions and opinions -- accurate or not -- about us as held by others (community), and the popular culture, conventions, and norms -- positive or otherwise -- of our regional demographic group (society). All of the best and worst cliche's linking committees to product design outcomes clearly apply. In the end, we're all PRODUCTS of that unweildy mishmash of contributing and influencing factors. Welcome my son (and daughter) .... to The Machine.

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