{"id":909,"date":"2007-10-05T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=909"},"modified":"2007-10-05T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T20:31:29","slug":"intimations_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Intimations of intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can intimacy be a many-to-many experience? Can it be disembodied? Can it be encoded into software? Can it be airborne?<\/p>\n<p>Suw Charman offers a fuzz-bomb of a <a href=\"http:\/\/strange.corante.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/04\/fowa07b_leisa_reichelt.php\">post<\/a> on &#8220;ambient intimacy,&#8221; channeling (apparently) a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disambiguity.com\/ambient-intimacy-at-the-future-of-web-apps\/\">presentation<\/a> on the idea by Lisa Reichelt at the Future of Web Apps conference in London:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twitter or Jaiku, use to pick each others&#8217; fleas en masse. Gives phatic expressiveness to a virtual space &#8230; David Weinberger &#8220;continual partial friendship&#8221; &#8230; your app has to be undemanding, but at the same time it does need to be intrusive enough that they are able to pay attention to it, it can&#8217;t just ben an app that is installed and forgotten about. Needs to be more like the old-fashioned village green, so you walk through the village green on way to do something else, but on the way will bum pinto people. So needs to support hte people that you see, that your&#8217;e waaving to, but without getitng in the way of what you need to get done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a meme in utero, struggling to be born.<\/p>\n<p>Across the universe, Tim Bray is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2007\/10\/04\/Intimate-Internet\">feeling it<\/a>, &#8220;the ambient Internet human buzz&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It feels pleasant to step into my local on the way to the office (double latte in my own cup). Yeah, it\u2019s warm when cold outside, shady when sunny, smells of coffee and baking. But that\u2019s background; what matters is the faces I recognize and others I don\u2019t, and always, always, the buzz of conversation. That\u2019s what the Net\u2019s starting to feel like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s background&#8221;: the old Cartesian dream. As if intimacy were a trick of the mind, which perhaps it is. We shout into cyberspace and, like any echoing void, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookofjoe.com\/2005\/10\/02\/index.html\">returns<\/a> our &#8220;own love back in copy speech.&#8221; A sense, anyway, of intimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can intimacy be a many-to-many experience? Can it be disembodied? Can it be encoded into software? Can it be airborne? 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