Swan's Song in G+

                 There's been trouble in river town. What I've been writing about G+ was true. It just took a year and a half instead of 6 mos. I came to love my G+ with all it's bugs and quirks. It's going to still be here, but it not making revenue. Facebook has locked in most of the people, becoming a faceplant for most of our social media dollar even with new competitors popping up everywhere.

                  This article was stolen from Wired, "But don’t write the obituary yet. It would be a mistake to call this a retreat, or an admission of failure. This is actually Google doing what Google does best: relentlessly optimizing its products based on data and feedback. There’s a small but very dedicated core of Google+ users, for whom Streams will now simply be a cleaner, more focused product. (At least, until Google kills it off, as is its ruthless tendency with power-user products like Reader. Actually, let’s not talk about that, I’m still not ready.) The truth is that when Google launched Google+, it actually launched three things. What it didn’t realize was that the two that weren’t “the social network,” Hangouts and Photos, were actually the future of social networking."

                    It's nice to know that the accounts we now use will be re applicable through a series of predictable conversions. No need to be sentimental. (all those photos of the kids up at the lodge.) I've always known that my work and love is constrained by the rarity of G+ on the web. I fortunately had been offered a "Private URL." <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE/>

                    The expectation was by using Google Analytics, I was testing for the diffusion rate of my blog and G+ accounts. Carrying obscure content over the web became a kind of game for me with set limitations per the segmenting of the public sphere. (Statistical Math joke.) Discreet lines of inquiry have projected into a speculative realm. By virtue of reaching unknown audiences we have been able to observe the behaviors of us as readers. More news later.