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Saved by 2 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-11-18
- Eyalnow on 2007-11-18 - Tags cyber-culture , privacy , radical-transparency
- Mcassimatis on 2007-02-07 - Tags z0702 , a-before , item
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Radical Transparency
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In today's ultranetworked online world, you can accomplish more by being insanely open about everything you're doing.
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Specifically, the three ideas I'm researching are:
- Secrecy Is Dead: The pre-Internet world trafficked in secrets. Information was valuable because it was rare; keeping it secret increased its value.
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- Tap The Hivemind: Throw everything you've got online, and invite the world to look at it. They'll have more and better ideas that you could have on your own, more and better information than you could gather on your own, wiser and sager perspective than you could gather in 1,000 years of living -- and they'll share it with you. You'll blow past the secret-keepers as if you were driving a car that exists in a world with different and superior physics. Like we said, information used to be rare ... but now it's so ridiculously plentiful that you will never make sense of it on your own. You need help, and you need to help others.
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- Reputation Is Everything: Google isn't a search engine. Google is a reputation-managment system.
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Because, okay, let's say you don't want to blog, or to Flickr, or to participate in online discussion threads. That means the next time someone Googles you they'll find ... everything that everyone else has said about you, rather than the stuff you've said yourself. (Again -- just ask Sony about this one.) The only way to improve and buff your reputation is to dive in and participate. Be open. Be generous. Throw stuff out there -- your thoughts, your ideas, your personality. Trust comes from transparency.
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