Creeva’s World 2.0

What do I mean by out Scoble, Scoble him­self?  I’m not going to make as much money as he does, I’m not going to get as many fol­low­ers as he does, and I’m not going to ever get to play with all the toys he does, and I’ll never have his con­nec­tions.   So how am I going to out do him?

Data dis­tri­b­u­tion.

Last week some­one asked me how I dis­trib­ute my data across the Inter­net, at first I grabbed a piece of paper.  After start­ing the dia­gram I real­ized it was way too inef­fi­cient in space require­ments, so I moved on to a piece of poster board.   After I had a rough dia­gram I was told I must surely be kid­ding.  I assure you when it comes to my blog I never kid, and don’t call me Shirley.

After relay­ing this story to a friend he said he would be inter­ested in how I dis­trib­ute my data.   So I put this chal­lenge on myself, to come up with an accu­rate dia­gram of how I push my data, and include pas­sive inclu­sion in sites like google at the same time.   The goal is to see how much data I truly gen­er­ate with each post.   Instead of just ramp­ing up to include every­thing I’ve joined so far I’m tak­ing it up a notch.   I’m going to see­how truly far I can push the enve­lope on pass­ing this data and mak­ing it grow.   Sort of a tsunami of Inter­net data.

I will only have one account per ser­vice and stick with their own func­tion­al­ity, I won’t do any data pass­ing man­u­ally, nor will I use a sec­ond account (since that’s cheat­ing).   If I man­aged to spam my data to 5000 twit­ter accounts who would sub­scribe to any of them?  No one, so I have to take the point of view I’ve always stated, this is about dis­trib­ut­ing data to my friends no mat­ter what ser­vice they are on.  It’s kind of the oppo­site of data porta­bil­ity, so with that in mind I’m call­ing this the data pusha­bil­ity project.

I’m going to con­tinue until July 1st to see how many ser­vices that I can link, cross­post, and pull in unique data from that either I cre­ate or I the­o­ret­i­cally own (com­ments to my posts I have a stake in and much as my del.icio.us book­marks).  I want all the sites to auto­mat­i­cally han­dle the data and use tools pro­vided to me by web ser­vices.  I’m tar­get­ting social net­works and the like, but my friend asked me what am I going to do when the social net­work craze is over.  I explained that this is more proof of con­cept and Inter­net dis­tri­b­u­tion.  Those are the fac­tors that ring my bell, the friends and pop­u­lar­ity con­test really aren’t my dri­ving fac­tor.  Get­ting my stuff read, that’s what I want.  I don’t care if you friend me or not.

So look for­ward to a dia­gram the first week of July that shows how far data can really be pushed in todays Inter­net era.