Celebrate Me!
I’ve been brewing a theory for a while that soon everyday people will become celebrities based on everyday habits and personal preferences. What we eat, drink, wear, read, watch, listen to, link to, blog about and so on will create an overall public Personality to be shared and monitored by all. TasteMakers will be celebrated and revered while BadTasters will be ridiculed and shunned based on these pattern-clouds of habits and ratings. Already, tools are emerging to promote and perpetuate this.
Right now for example, LastFM.com will automatically create an online radio stream of their tracks based on the AudioScrobbler profile of my personal music collection. And, the music is largely from the actual artists I listen to though may not actually have in my iTunes collection. Everyone and anyone can listen to a mix based loosely on my listening habits and taste patterns in music. Likewise, my recent bookmarks, favorite feed page and currently reading list all have feeds for someone (if not me) to aggregate into a big picture.
Sometimes, I joke I want someday to have a cult following; with fervent fans who will collect anything and everything I’m into. No matter how obscure, self-indulgent or aimless, someone will lap it up. I envision myself having immeasurable indie street cred, merely by just being myself. Not famous; infamous. Perhaps with all these emerging tools, that’s not so impossible (no matter how unlikely).
I’ve been brewing a theory for a while that soon everyday people will become celebrities based on everyday habits and personal preferences. What we eat, drink, wear, read, watch, listen to, link to, blog about and so on will create an overall public Personality to be shared and monitored by all. TasteMakers will be celebrated and revered while BadTasters will be ridiculed and shunned based on these pattern-clouds of habits and ratings. Already, tools are emerging to promote and perpetuate this.
Right now for example, LastFM.com will automatically create an online radio stream of their tracks based on the AudioScrobbler profile of my personal music collection. And, the music is largely from the actual artists I listen to though may not actually have in my iTunes collection. Everyone and anyone can listen to a mix based loosely on my listening habits and taste patterns in music. Likewise, my recent bookmarks, favorite feed page and currently reading list all have feeds for someone (if not me) to aggregate into a big picture.
Sometimes, I joke I want someday to have a cult following; with fervent fans who will collect anything and everything I’m into. No matter how obscure, self-indulgent or aimless, someone will lap it up. I envision myself having immeasurable indie street cred, merely by just being myself. Not famous; infamous. Perhaps with all these emerging tools, that’s not so impossible (no matter how unlikely).