creating stakes to fight apathy
Using social media as a way of creating a space for people to have a stake in their culture is hugely important. That’s how you fight apathy and how you a human is alive. The notion of people asking...
View Articlescavenger hunt for inforg 2.0 terms
When I looked up Education 2.0 the bookmarkable stuff I found was a defunct Ning site (and an active one for Art Education) references to the Khan Academy and some interesting articles from Wired in...
View Articlequashing participation
Information professionals should be using social media if they care about the rest of the world. I mean, I’m a fan of cataloguing in a cave, but engaging with your community is important. Even if...
View Articlelibrarian != marketer
There’s an idea in the social media-verse that “conversation is the content.” That kind of quote makes me angry. In the article linked to (which isn’t specifically about libraries but for other...
View Articlesocial media is only a means of supporting creativity
Following up on my last post, I’m not so sure that “web 2.0 itself implies creativity.” I mean, I get the Clay Shirky idea that making something is better than watching Gilligan’s island so making...
View Articlecreating flickering shadows in a cave
I find I have a block when it comes to thinking about the social-ness of creativity. I tend way more towards the “huddle in the dark and make things up and don’t show anyone until it’s ready” model of...
View Articlefilled with flots and jets i am today
One of the things I love about an aggregated informational world is the idea that if you’ve got enough information flowing past you things will wash up on shore. In the Wesch video there’s a bit about...
View Articleimmersed in abstraction
I’ve tried before and I’ll probably try again, but I can’t get immersed in Second Life. It’s the lack of story there. You make yourself look how you want (or find you’re unable to) and then you stand...
View Articlewhat i learned on my summer non-vacation
In our presentation for libr559m, which our group did on (my) Thursday, Dean asked us what we’d learned that we hadn’t known before in creating our project. At the time I mentioned the technical stuff...
View Articlemy artifacts from libr559m
I made stuff in my social media course with Dean Giustini these past six weeks. If I actually tallied up the word count I bet it would be more than I’ve written for school than I’ve done for a long...
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