{"id":80,"date":"2007-10-06T22:01:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/06\/what-a-listening-application-is-not\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T14:37:17","slug":"what-a-listening-application-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/what-a-listening-application-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Listening Application is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I posted an entry on an idea I called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/listening-applications\/\" title=\"Listening Applications\">Listening Application<\/a>.&#8221; This idea has generated a number of conversations with peers of mine, many of which inevitably result in listing<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog\/robot_phone.jpg\" alt=\"Robot holding a Phone\" title=\"Robot holding a Phone\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"175\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"175\" \/> applications that seem like they might be &#8220;listening&#8221;, only to eventually rule them out.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, here is a list of applications that are deemed to not be listening:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Facebook, MySpace or other Social Networking Sites<\/li>\n<li>Instant Messenger<\/li>\n<li>Email<\/li>\n<li>Blogs<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am not surprised that these applications are offered as candidates. When describing a theoretical application that is &#8220;gratifying, [and] deepens connections with its users while empowering them&#8221;, it is easy to think about the current social revolution that has enveloped the web by allowing users to easily produce and publish content. The ways in which the technologies listed above have deepened and multiplied connections between internet users are countless.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->These connections, however, are with <em>users<\/em>, and they are noteworthy only to the extent that their users are. Facebook and YouTube are user sourcing, leaving the individuals to produce the primary commodity: each other. If there is any user listening going on with MySpace, it is being performed by other users.<\/p>\n<p>Where does this leave us on the hunt for a listening application? I have some ideas that may meet the criterion, and most have the smell of AI. But I am hoping that some of you have ideas as well. Cookies will be made available (digital and otherwise) for people willing to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I posted an entry on an idea I called the &#8220;Listening Application.&#8221; This idea has generated a number of conversations with peers of mine, many of which inevitably result in listing applications that seem like they might be &#8220;listening&#8221;, only to eventually rule them out. For the record, here is a list of applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}