Library clips :: Blogs : the many ways ‘many’ come together :: June :: 2007

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A nice collection of ideas about different kinds of Many applied to blogs. Some lovely evocative metaphors such as ‘cloud’ and ‘carnival’, with some good examples of each of the many Manies.
Created:Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:32:37 GMT

Original: https://community.brighton.ac.uk/pg/blog/jd29/read/80564/library-clips-blogs-the-many-ways-many-come-together-june-2007
By: Jon Dron
Posted: June 21, 2007, 11:32 am

Compendium Institute

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Interesting tool from Simon Buckingham Shum and gang that combines concept-mapping, argument visualisation and other cool features in a user-friendly, Java-based tool. It is a little clunky when used collaboratively, but is a very helpful weapon in the e-learning armoury, making things possible that would have been difficult or impossible before net-connected computers.
Created:Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:54:58 GMT

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Posted: June 12, 2007, 4:54 am

lighthive

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A rather lovely art installation that maps activity throughout a building using webcams and other sensors, representing it in a large, skeletal 3 dimensional LED structure which changes as the building’s use changes. It is described as a ‘continuous spatial log, concretising the movements as much as the monuments of form within the building.’
I love this idea – augmenting social navigation in meat-space, heightening a sense of community and social presence, and also looking incredibly cool.
For those on smaller budgets and with limited space, it might be inspirational rather than imitable: we might try something similar with a smaller number of sensors, a smaller space and maybe a simpler 2D visualisation on a display panel or two. I guess the security-minded might be a little concerned about what it might tell malicious people, which is a potential weakness of social software in general. On the other hand, there are visualisations that could be both helpful and less revealing than the lighthive, albeit losing the potential of social navigation. At the University of Brighton, for instance, which is spread over multiple campuses and multiple towns, a sense of activity throughout the university might help to bind it all together and reduce the current sense of fragmentation.
Created:Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:25:39 GMT

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Posted: June 8, 2007, 10:25 pm

Deborah Schultz: NextWeb – Stop Yelling & Start Weaving

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A nice metaphor for the social web – ‘weaving’, where the medium is the relationship, as well as reference to Chris Locke’s notion of social networking as relationship bricolage.
I like both metaphors as they capture different things that are important about social software. Weaving is about connection and (to an extent) diversity, but also about constructing a matrix that incorporates not just people but software. I actually prefer ‘bricolage’ as it is about assembly of disparate and disconnected things, capturing the fact that they are reassembled into a new and recognisable order rather better than ‘mashup’.
Created:Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:19:29 GMT

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Posted: June 7, 2007, 3:19 am

Finding a Date — on the Spot – WSJ.com

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Meetmoi is an online dating service that works via SMS – offers ‘speed-dating’ by text message for 10 minutes to those who meet in a virtual lobby, determined by post code.A neat, bottom-up idea. A sort of geocaching where people are the geocache. The idea may be transferable – isolation is a notorious problem for distance learners: if it were possible to find others nearby in near-real-time it might help a lot.In fact, though geographical collocation would be nice, even the ability to find other ‘lonely learners’ would be beneficial.
Created:Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:57:35 GMT

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Posted: June 6, 2007, 8:57 pm

At 3M, A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity

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That old chestnut of lack of diversity raises its ugly head again.It appears that 3M may have been losing its legendary creative edge as a result of a (successful) drive to improve efficiency through the Siz Sigma process. The new chairman, Buckley says, “Perhaps one of the mistakes that we made as a company—it’s one of the dangers of Six Sigma—is that when you value sameness more than you value creativity, I think you potentially undermine the heart and soul of a company like 3M.” His answer is to reduce the control in creative areas, getting rid of a one size fits all approach.As ever, parcellation is the key to successful innovation. We need islands in which innovation can take hold and grow, unthreatened by the grey masses.
Universities should listen.
Created:Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:51:42 GMT

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Posted: June 6, 2007, 12:51 pm

Porn 2.0 is stiff competition for pro pornographers

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It seems that things are not going well for those who used to make money out of porn thanks to user-generated content and the likes of the worryingly named ‘Pornotube’. Interesting because the porn industry has long been the bit of seaweed stuck to the wall that tells us what the weather will be like soon for the rest of the Internet community, including those of us in education.
Created:Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:11:48 GMT

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Posted: June 6, 2007, 8:11 am