Seb's Open Research

Friday, February 20, 2004

Helping ties outlive projects Tom Smith on how identity can be longer-lived than the course that gives birth to it: "Using a "standard" tool like IM, means that as the students left the course and went to work all over the world, the network (or "crews" as they were known) continued to be maintained. Out there in new media world, in London, New York, San Francisco there is a "secret" network still talking." Something to think about, for instance, when you set up weblogs for a group of people in a certain context. How long will that context last? Are you sure you want to tie the blogs to that context? What do you think? []  links to this post    11:52:59 PM   Online community blogging: a few quick links Web community guru / social architect Amy Jo Kim has recently entered the blogosphere. (She's a behavioral neuroscientist by training, did you know that?) [Update, 22/2: she has accepted our invitation to guestblog at Many-to-Many!] And in related news, the excellent GuerillaKM site on communities of practice has starting getting updates again! No RSS yet, though. And be sure not to miss Lee LeFever's Common Craft. (Nancy, Jenny, where are you?) What do you think? []  links to this post    11:30:14 PM

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Competing for attention Justin Hall on conference backchannels. This is what classrooms will look like a few years from now. Imagine a conference where half the audience was heckling and questioning the speaker near constantly. And not just unfounded heckling, but well-researched contrarian jibes and zinger queries. Imagine holding your attention on the speaker while their presentation was being expertly critiqued by the people around you. Now imagine that all that was happening silently, you could hear the feedback but the speaker and most of the audience couldn't. Imagine that backchannel conversation was open to anyone with an internet connection. Then imagine trying to concentrate on anything. What do you think? []  links to this post    5:37:35 PM   Rebranded Firebird's stunning new logo Flexbeta: 13 reasons to use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. A great product with a great packaging. What do you think? []  links to this post    11:58:01 AM

Monday, February 16, 2004

Filing wisdom Ron Davis "When you file something ask yourself "Where would I look for this if I was trying to find it?" " Obvious, but often disregarded. Generalization: When you're filing for a group of people, ask yourself, "Where would I look for this if I were one of these people?" What do you think? []  links to this post    2:36:49 PM   The unbearable unwrappableness of social software Marc Canter: The business sector is floundering around - trying to "wrap their arms" around something - that is un-wrappable. Since social software is not a single market or even single trend - the VCs wanna know "where's the beef?" "What's the business model?" "Who do we invest in?" But the thing about it is - social software is more than a trend or fad. It's a raising of the bar - bringing humans into the equation of software. Directly. From now on - all software MUST recognize the fact that humans use it. That those humans have relationships with other humans and that those relationships are probably more important than that human giving money to the software vendor. What do you think? []  links to this post    11:07:22 AM

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