Creeva’s World 2.0

Ok — the title in an of it’s self is a bit sen­sa­tion­al­is­tic, but the truth of the mat­ter isn’t so far off.

I’ve been using grand­cen­tral for a while now and I can tell you I love the ser­vice. I love being able to man­age my life from my email in-box also. Now all my blog back­ups, indi­vid­ual RSS feeds, my faxes, and my phone calls all come to my in-box. The down­side of this is that I do not have a method of deny­ing that I received a com­mu­ni­ca­tion (though I have a dig­i­tal paper trail if I did not).
I have instructed almost all of my fam­ily to con­tact my grand­cen­tral num­ber if they wish to reach me. So if my father was going to call me he would dial my Grand­cen­tral num­ber. From here grand­cen­tral rings my home phone, my cell phone, my work phone, and my google talk IM address. So it’s kind of hard to dodge that call from some­one I don’t like, but unless you are on my con­tact list — you go straight to voice­mail. I unfor­tu­nately hate SMS so I don’t receive noti­fi­ca­tions (and get a cheaper phone bill to boot). If I did use SMS I would use twit­ter with it and it would take up way too much per­sonal time.

My faxes route through eFax and then get deliv­ered into my email inbox. This allows me to have a free fax num­ber that deposits faxes into my email box with­out giv­ing out too much pri­vate info since the num­ber can be changed on a whim.

We have our online infor­ma­tion flood­ing the inter­net path­ways with RSS feeds that is caus­ing rabid de-aggregation of data — which data own­ers like myself are try­ing to get the data aggre­gated again in a work­able for­mat. All this leads to gigs upon gigs of per­sonal data (when you con­sider the band­width of email, video, pic­tures, RSS feeds times teh num­ber of sub­scribers, VOIP) which is in the end pretty mun­dane stuff but yet each thing we do leads to a large cas­cade of the con­tin­u­ance of bandwidth.

I don’t know it’s just a rant that I’m hav­ing — more to follow.