... i wrote this in an e-mail (!), because someone (Arnaud, that is) has asked: the power of communication. brings me to the question why so many people i know seem to live through a writing blog block these days. some time for re-orientation maybe, at the borderline between the old blogosphere and the new 2.0-mediasphere. traditional blogging is an exclusive we-are-an-elitist-minority kind of thing (?). there was of course some conference blogging being done.
"i'm still not digital native enough, it seems, to think on the spot about things. it was a 2.0 workshop by the way, whre i got connected. they didn't have general wireless internet access (only locally and quite expensive). a telling fact in itself.
it was quite interesting in some ways: it was very much concentrating on Higher Education (mostly universities and affiliated institutes) and giving a good overview of the state of "e-learning" in a quite developed country like the UK. the state is: Learning Management Systems and Virtual Learning Environments are definitely dead in the mainstream's consciousness.
blogs/wikis/podcasts become a mainstream phenomenon, but people do not really know how to use them. still seing them primarily as personal/social means of expression/communication, not as an environment for building (micro-)knoweldge.
there was a strong avant-gardistic minority of 2.0-microcontent-people though which partly have influential postions in ele-R&D. so this is obviously the direction things will take. but the Digital Divide between people familiar with microcontent-based practices/technologies and others ist very wide and maybe opening even further.
what we need is: building by bricolage a routine, a workflow from the 2.0 building stones, a pathcwork of applications -- from collecting, filtering to "publishing"/storing to aggregating and finally feeding it back, both into the personal InfoCloud and into the mediasphere, to get another cycle (or foodchain) going ...
Posted by martin at September 19, 2006 9:25 AM