I’m frustrated by the seeming lack of commitment of libraries (especially community-anchored public libraries) to their role in facilitating patrons’ ability to speak. Librarians entusiastically rally ’round the flag of “Intellectual Freedom“, but they think of it almost entirely in terms of defending patrons’ right to read stuff written by others. All very well and… Continue reading Libraries facilitating self expression
Here’s another cool tag tag application given to me by a friend who regularly attends the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention. So, as origamists(?) walk around and encounter one another in physical space, they display this structured metadata about themselves re: an origami project they would like to learn or teach. This sort of tag tag seems… Continue reading Origami conference tag tags
Here’s another cool tag tag application given to me by a friend who regularly attends the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention. So, as origamists(?) walk around and encounter one another in physical space, they display this structured metadata about themselves re: an origami project they would like to learn or teach. This sort of tag tag seems… Continue reading Origami conference tag tags
Here’s a very interesting 16 minute video (and transcript) by Clay Shirky, given at the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. It’s a fascinating and inspiring reply to the question, “Where do people find the time [to engage in all this participative media stuff]”? (I’ve been a big fan of Clay Shirky since reading… Continue reading “Where do people find the time for this participative media stuff?”
Here’s another insight I gained from Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. I (Seth) regard myself as an idealist. When I first encountered Wikipedia, I was excited by what I perceived to be an idealistic tool which fully and equally validated every participant and contribution. So I found it difficult… Continue reading Idealism and pragmatism can be friends
Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations has lots of terrific insights. Here’s one about activism. He describes a couple examples of citizen activism facilitated by new social tools. One is about angry airline passengers organizing to create an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights by using newspaper interactivity and an online… Continue reading About social tools and activism
(Note: this is a little long, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while…) At many meetings or conferences, participants wear name tags. At a minimum the tag contains a self-written first name (perhaps preceded by “Hello. My name is…”). Or meetings with registered users may have name tags with pre-printed names, organizational affiliations,… Continue reading About Tag Tags
I just listened to an interesting podcasted interview with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki. He’s currently working with a new start-up called AboutUs with a very intriguing premise. AboutUs takes the text from various domains’ “About Us” pages, along with WhoIs information and probably other stuff, and puts it all into a publicly… Continue reading Ward Cunningham’s About Us venture
Being new to this blogging game, I’m still trying to get a feel for what to write. At the moment, I feel like screaming to the world my frustration with my hosting provider, NEIT Solutions, that hosts my communishare.org site. They’ve been pretty good for years, but a couple weeks ago, they changed servers, and… Continue reading NEIT “Solutions”: Bad!
I just listened to a great podcasted interview with Valdis Krebs. I was introduced to the work of Valdis Krebs by Stan Pokras way back when we were publishing the Other Networks newsletter in the early ’80’s. Valdis is a pioneer in the realm of social network analysis (SNA), a disciplined, statistical practice which long… Continue reading Valdis Krebs and social network silos
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