Expanding Access
As an avid public-radio fan, (I embrace what others consider my “nerdness”) I’ve recently been exploring the world of podcasts
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Author: Rob Bruno
Slashdot Survey Example
Much of the reading for Preece this week involved evaluating communities. Surveys are a fine example of a means of
Read MoreTriangulating Web Evaluations…
Usability is often evaluated in terms of ease of use – an important area of study highlighted by people like
Read MoreA site to watch
I’m not sure if this website has been mentioned before, but I thought I would bring it to the class’
Read MoreA Simple Helpful Site…
Powazek (2002) stated three key issues in his book Design for Community that should be initially considered when building a
Read MoreCommunity Straddlers
The readings for this week are concerned with online community membership. Some focuses are why people join communities and how
Read MoreParadox of Darwinian Equality
In reading the pieces on Wikipedia I was struck by a paradox that I call Darwinian Equality. It seems that
Read MoreI’m a blogger afterall
Web logs, or rather blogs, are all over the internet as a means of doing something that was once thought
Read MoreThemes of the 60s Counterculture
In class, Soren began to comment on 3 to 4 themes from the 60s counterculture that influenced (some might say
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Codifying Accidental Knowledge (or Cultural/Local Information) One of my major problems as a graduate student was figuring out what I
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The Purdue website has a very poor search engine. Our class project could have a better search engine on it
Read MoreWienberger and Rheingold–similar?
One of the questions associated with the assigned readings was in reference to Weinberger and similarities associated with Rheingold or
Read MoreThe Changing Nature of Expertise & Authority – Is it Anarchy?
Authority and expertise has changed. Weinberger’s chapter on “The Hyperlinked Organization†in The Cluetrain Manifesto (2004) and his chapter on
Read MoreThe Promise Remains Alive…
It seems, we need (or at least greatly benefit) from the tension between community and individual as manifested on the
Read MoreWiki-communitas
Communitas is an online journal that is a part of the wikimedia foundation. This journal involves community development for wiki
Read MoreDale Carnegie, Consumers, and Communitas
Is the Internet, as we’ve seen it described in our readings, and perhaps also as we’ve experienced it, a liminal
Read MoreCommunities of Ones
So the crux – or at the very least a major discussion area in our offline discussions – has been
Read MoreTelevised Education without the Television
A thought on our discourse on television. Many people felt that TV was not an interactive medium – rather it
Read MoreCost-Benefit Analysis…
If I understood Gabe correctly, he disagreed with the idea that community necessarily had to involve some level of compulsion
Read MoreIf a physical tree falls in the forest does that make the virtual tree more real?
In his postlogue/added chapter to his book, Rheingold asks whether the use of the “phrase virtual community is a perversion
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be human?
When it comes to the “dilemma of modernityâ€, namely, the tension between individual expression and community spirit (Matei, 2001) all
Read MoreStewart Brand & Wikipedia
Thinking about the concept of group-mind in class today, made me think about Wikipedia – which is founded in part
Read MoreTangible Intangibilities
Perhaps it is my return to a small town format – or perhaps my background in non-profits and volunteers –
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