window shopping

ABB hits me with a Johari Window reference in the comments. It has something to do with presentation management, ambient exposure and mindfulness. I don't quite know what yet.

There's a pragmatic viewpoint of this in terms of personal data:

• Hidden = C:/ drive
• Open = Blog
• Blind = CRM / Gov data (held about you of which you are unaware)
• Unknown = Unknown data

There's another viewpoint that asks us to examine our relationships with others - that may or may not be mediated by social software. Do these tools make us more or less aware of what we put where and when?

There's a third viewpoint that queries who the "self" and "others" are here. Are there not multiple potential groups of "others". And is "I" always the same?

Anyway time for some cogitating...