Flutterby™! : Living in public

Not sure how I feel about Jason Calacanis: We Live in Public (and the end of empathy) (hat tip). On the one hand he's got some interesting notes on the interface between public and private, especially as it relates to weblogs and social networking sites, on the other hand, his notes on the breakdown of empathy seem to me to be mostly about people trying to build one-sided relationships with a broad public by being exhibitionist.

I think I've been pretty "out there" on Flutterby, but I think my relationships with the people who participate here are stronger because of it. I think I've been careful to not be an attention whore, props to TC for showing us what that meant when we had the ill-fated second hit on "French Military Victories", and I think the generally "private is public" stance here has served me well.

So, to view his message differently: Maybe the scorn he describes is a result of the subjects assuming that those relationships are one-sided.