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| Monday, May 30, 2005 |
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Web 2.0.0.1beta 
| | The show is on. Dave just said the tread that connects many conversations is "revenge of the sources," I think it was. That is, the sources that are all of us. They used to be few (speakers at conferences, analysts, insiders...), and now they are everybody with something to contribute. |
| | Just realized that all three of us ... Dave, David and Doc ... were all named David by our parents. Coincidence? Hm... The David Gang? |
| | Dave just compared RSS to Sushi belt restaurants. I'm thinking sushi boats... |
| | Greg Elin has set up an IRC channel... irc.freenode.net #radioopensource . Maybe somebody will share the text when it's over. |
| | Dina's calling in from India... |
| | Always strange, at the end of a show like that, where there are several guests and a host: there's no continuity. We're all suddenly cut off from each other. I want to keep talking to Chris, Dave and David, even though we're off the air. You get that at a conference, or even on a conference call. With radio shows, it's just: over. |
| | Well, maybe that can be fixed a bit next time. Have the producer keep the guest on the phone with Chris when it's over. Or something like that. |
| | My regret is that I wasn't watching the clock. I should have seen there was almost no time left, and given David more time to talk, to answer Chris's last question about Cluetrain. I feel like I cut him off, somehow. |
| | Maybe when we all have our own podcasts... (I'm tellin' ya, it's a matter of time...) |
Look up
| | A geomagnetic storm is happening, right now. Best location for Auroras: far down in the southern hemispheres. We're almost too close to the summer solstice in the far north... but not quite. From the looks of this map, the best shot right now would be in central Russia. Then start looking in Europe, then Canada and the Northern U.S. The key is to be far enough north to see the aurora's curtains of light (up to a thousand miles high), yet far enough south to be in complete darkness. In the areas I just mentioned, there are only a few hours of complete darkness at night this time of year. In the same southern lattitudes there are reciprocally few hours of light (as you can see from recent New Zeeland reports on the Auroral Activity Observation Network). Also check out the Real Time Auroral Oval, which only covers the Northern Hemisphere; and the Australian Space Weather site. |
So belly up
| | I have lots of thoughts about all of Terry's pieces, but no time to dilate on them, or to risk The Curse again. (Except over in IT Garage, where I just added my own thoughts to a long quote from Terry.) So I'll just point to as many as I can and leave the rest to you. If the best blogs are food for thought, Terry's essays are feasts. |
All the news that's fit to annotate
| | I must be getting jaded. These days, when I see a major newspaper or magazine piece on blogging, or The Future of News, or Living in a Connected World, I usually just scan it and move on. |
| | So, leave it up to fellow bloggers to read deeper and wax wiser on the topics. |
| | That happened twice last week, with the Wall Street Journal — one of three daily newspspers that show up in my driveway each morning. (The other two are the Santa Barbara News-Press and the Los Angeles Times.) |
| | Where journalism intersects with public agendas, its sources of raw information and opinion will increasingly be visible. That's a feature, not a bug! Not everyone can gather, dig, sift, sort, analyze, and synthesize. Most people rely on journalists to do these things because most people have other jobs to do. In a more transparent world, journalists will be able to probe more deeply and synthesize more powerfully -- and we will be able to trust and verify their methods. |
| | If you buy this argument, note that the burden of reform is not borne solely by Big Media. Yes, these institutions will need to engage with the blogosophere, but so will everyone who seeks to advance a public agenda. A while ago, Dave Winer nailed this. In a knowledge-based economy, narrating your work becomes part of everyone's job. That narration produces artifacts we call blogs. They'll transform Big Media, but only because they'll transform society. |
| | This article sheds very little light on the subject of blogs. No mention of the significance of reader interaction via comments and email to the blog authors. No mention of the community building or activist aspects of blogs. |
| | What is said about the problems of defining, tracking, qualifying, and counting blogs is not new, nor is it very enlightening. |
| | It seems to me that the whole point of this article is to downplay the significance of blogs AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. |
| | Bloggers do a much better job promoting, questioning, and even harshing blogs than the lazy, lame MSM. |
| | I think the problem we're all wrestling with here isn't just the correct reporting of facts. It's dealing with responsibilities in growing what we know, which is much broader and deeper than facts alone. As Michael Polanyi pointed out, most of what we know isn't explicit. It's tacit. "We know more than we can tell," Michael Polanyi says. A lot more. And if the subject is one that grows and changes constantly, thinking out loud becomes at least as responsible as simple reporting. |
| | I wrote about this almost four years ago. Rather than repeat myself (and my many sources), I'll just point back there, and especially to this drawing by John Seely Brown (from this talk, which is, amazingly, still up): |
| | Note the region in the lower right, where tacit and groups meet around genres and work practices. Then read what JSB says in that last link: |
| | ...on the Web there is seldom such a thing as just a consumer or just a producer. Basically, each of us is part consumer and part producer. We read and we write, we absorb and we critique, we listen and we tell stories, we help and we seek help. This is life on the Web. The boundaries between consuming and producing are fluid — the secret to many of the business models of Web-based commerce. |
| | From this perspective the Web does three things. First, the Web helps to establish a culture that honors the fluid boundaries between the production and consumption of knowledge, recognizing that knowledge can get produced wherever serious problems are being attacked and followed to their root. Second, with the Web, it is easier for experts — in the academy or in the firm — to casually interact with others and thus to act as mentors or advisors for students (or knowledge consumers) of any age — that is, folks that want to learn. Third, the Web provides infinite reach, rendering accessible resources far beyond the region; yet, the power of this reach is greatly enhanced when the results of this reach act as cross pollination, providing new grist, new points of view for communities of practice of the region. |
| | That was from 1999, when blogging was new and barely a blip on the mass media radar. |
| | What we know isn't a substance — "information" — we "deliver" like a daily newspaper. It isn't even a substance we "produce" and "consume." It's bigger and deeper than that. Blogs are ideal for making and changing minds. Also for rolling ideas like snowballs that grow with each new link, and each new contribution by other minds. That's way different than pumping "content" through a "medium." |
| | What are our responsibilities here? I think we're only beginning to visit that question. |
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