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November 16, 2004
Everything is miscellaneous
David Weinberger explains that "Everything is miscellaneous" in a lecture on "Blogs" and Knowledge as part of the Library of Congress and C-SPAN series on the Digital Future. [1]
Weinberger is a Fellow at the Harvard Unviversity Beckman Center for Internet & Society, former senior internet adviser to the Howard Dean campaign, and author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" (2000). He is also author of "Small pieces, loosely joined: a unified theory of the web" (2002). Both books can be downloaded from his website.
[1] The Digital Future, (http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp)
[2] JoHo, David Weinberger, (http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/)
Notes from the session, questions and answers.
Digital Futures: Blogs and Knowledge
the fate of trees of knowledge (categorization)
self selecting communities of interest
weblogs are conversations
people use this stuff in ways we never expected.
accessing the "the authentic" object
seitenvender
cultural settings of blogs (japanese)
- keitai bunka
- j ito
- minmin's Obento - http://www.fotolog.net/minmin
internet sociology
- at the beckman center
usenet isn't dead
- there are 70,000 of them
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learning blogs
- an environment where people learn together
- class blogs
- new agent changes authority
- authority of text challenges authority of voice
- building knowledge together
- sharing the authority
knowledge systems
- email
- web logs
a theory of everything explains nothing
"i am an internet sociologist. i was an embedded researcher in the howard dean campaign"
dean campaign
- bogging was third voice
- this was their blog
- our voices could emerge
- the kerry web log was not used in the same way
re : categorizations : are they really different
- the entry barriers have been lowered
- this affects the shape and politics of knowledge
can blogs be used as evidence in courts
chinese program
- a woman has been given a contract
- teaching 1/3 of the chinese to speak english in the next 12 years
- do we own our own language ?
- english is not a proprietary thing
- english is a reasonably decent language
just came back from a conference on online social networks
- do people give their own language
- doesn't the form control the voice
- knowledge as a social reality (not a purely social reality)
Posted by sjc at November 16, 2004 4:19 PM
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