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[create Ricardo Cambiassi] - social news reading: an attention odissey - the one-man band: I can do everything - the hive-mind: delegate and be happy; reBlog; works for small groups - trust and tribes - att'n.xml: publish what feeds you're reading & what you actually read Anne Bartlett-Bragg - adult learners' experiences with weblogs - 30% south-east asian students, often problems - surface vs. deep learning - phenomenographic study [big in scandinavia?] - a: technology constraints, b: engaging online identity, c: proficient writing, d: discovering others, e: all well - people use weblogs as personal learning environments - all assessments, all communication on weblogs - hosted externally from institute for legal reasons; added bonus: people can keep their weblog for life (if they want to) - not a community, a "network" - criticism: this is not a subject [create Philipp Gühring] - CAcert - web of trust Jeremy Ruston - why wiki? post-doc(ument) future - tiddlywiki does not allow people to collaborate [so is it asocial software?] [at least in the standard version] - personal wiki - semantics of a document - carriage > car - codex pages > document - wysiwyg has crushing disadvantages - writely: 1998 kind of link dialog - no way that flow of concentration survives that kind of interruption - hypertext vision: make world's information more valuable thru links - bbc: practically no hypertext! poor man's navigation on the left, some related articles right - contrast w/ wikipedia: link density (notorious for linking everything, colors and dates &c.) - [is high link density always good?] - alertbox/hype.html - wysiwyg requires ghostly presences (magic, invisible markers) - cheap and quick answer to make software "accessible" [too cheap and quick] - tiddlywiki documents: densely interlinked - next up: documents that blend data and behaviour (see jot) - vibrant tiddly community thanks to view source q & a - people are confident that they'll be able to read tiddlywiki files in 20 years' time - so they're putting in valuable things - hosted: tiddlyspot.com [create Frank Mantek] - worked for msft (mostly on api kram) - joined google last year - now uses macs. can't use shiny pocketpc any more. - what happens when you lose your cell phone? no (easy) way to backup. - open data access is good, you can circumvent sucky software - the cool thing about google maps is not the presentation pseudo-api, it's access to geodata, which was practically inaccessible [at that scale?] before - gdata: calendar, base, blogger - simple query language: filter, full-text search, author, publication date (core set; other apps extend that set) - update data: atom publishing - documented, cc-licensed api: no lock-in - apache-licensed api implementations in java, .net, php [?], upcoming: js Bazaar - activity theory something - headlines from the future [?] - participation at multiple levels: lowest e.g. star ratings - on- and offline participation - communities have boundary stones; innovation at the boundaries and between communities - active moderation [create Wolfgang Zeglovits] - social software development: blogger, antville - antville: hannes, robert, tobi, claudia, mariann - server fund - knallgrau: twoday, fork, twoday media - no more antville development - blogger: pyra; ev, meg, pb - &c. &c. - no money in europe/austria, no silval-like community [...] - stay clear of academics Matt Mullenweg - wordpress and jazz - been to an art high school - wordpress(.com), automattic - lester young: "be original" - wynton marsalis: "listen to the best, emulate" - wordpress had the tremendous benefit of being the 20th blogging tool - warren sneed (matt's teacher): "two hips make an ass" - so: don't try to be too hip - charles mingus: "anyone can make the simple complicated; creativity is making the complicated simple" - keep the core simple, shift everyone's 15 pixels of fame to plug-ins - dizzy gillespie: "it's taken all my life to learn what not to play" - louis armstrong: "if I don't practice for a day, I notice; for 2 days, the critics notice; for 3 days, the public notices" - keep going; every day - duke ellington: "a goal is a dream with a finish line" - know your goals; write them down - dizzy gillespie: "as long as they can dance to it" - people have lives - wordpress should be invisible, just get out of the way - very tempting to latch onto new trends, tack tagging onto everything - you have to have a vision; originality - fail faster - miles davis: "I stopped playing ballads, because I love playing ballads" - get outside the comfort zone - if you're a terrible writer, write every day - coleman hawkins: "if you don't make mistakes, you aren't trying" - art tatum: "there's no such thing as a wrong note" - "breathe!" Suw Charman - take away potential for and therefore fear of humiliation - look at tools creatively - identify your users - then: ad-hoc training sessions (not 3-day 300-page marathons) - if busy people can get thru their day w/o (having to) learn something new, they will! - ad-hoc support network (irc) - trainers shall become evangelists (or vice versa) - viral training & evangelism - get people involved and excited - get mgmt buy-in (long-term perspective - will that be around next year? / ok'd: legitimate use of work time) q & a - q: how many people do you have to train initially? a: not so much about how many but whom - supernodes, highly enthusiastic users. - 20% more usage after introduction of socialtext wysiwyg editor (non-technical users); sso (make everything as pain-free as possible) - corp-wide wiki (vis-à-vis departmental wiki): trying to pull down some phantom walls which needn't be there - people create their own information architecture (personal entryway into the wiki) - collaborate on chunks, not docs (people don't want their drafts to be seen) - some people just don't like writing |
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