What actually consitutes the consciousness and the range of skills required of a technate person in 2003 will be different than what it was in 2002. Simply put, as technology changes and as new ways of making meaning emerge, the consciousness of what is going on and the skills required to participate in communication will become in some cases simplified and in other cases more complex.
Here are some of the trends that the truly technate person will need to keep abreast of this year (this is only a partial list, more items will be added as they emerge):
HOW TO BE HEARD
To be fully technate (thoughts of in terms of the print era 'how to be literate') in 2003 one needs to know how to use weblogs, how to build social networks online, and how search robots and search engines work so that the technate person can make most use of the technology to be listed and heard, and how to build a text in weblogs that enters a community of discussion and thought.
HOW TO WORK
Apart from needing to know how to use Radio Userland or another blogging tool, you will also need to know how to host your site of blogging at a location that gets you a good positioning as far as Google is concerned. There are some good hosting locations that are also very blog friendly, such as Pure Energy that the highly technate person should consider. Also, it has a good Googleputation (reputation with Google). Then, how to build text using "rapid text construction" techniques so that the technate person can keep up with the amount of text generation required. This also requires the use of personal databasing tools, such as PersonalBrain so that the technate person can keep track of all the links, data and documents under construction.
WHAT TO DO
The highly technate person is going to spend at least some time each day searching for and reading new weblog entries and new weblogs each day. To accomplish this, search techniques will need to be adopted that enable location of new material as quickly as possible. An awareness of automated listings of weblogs and directories and how to use these to find new weblogs. As well, an understanding of all things Google goes well.
This is a partial listing of what it means to be technate in 2003. There are also the many matters to do with the basics of using a computer, being connected to the Internet, maintaining backups, and so on. More coming soon . . .
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