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Wiki Wiki!
- Poi
Dog Pondering, Circle around the sun
What attracts people most it would appear, is other people.
- William H. Whyte
Where is the Library of Congress, when it's on your laptop?
- Howard Rheingold
Make it delicious
- Conversation
Attention is scarce -- more valuable than cash and rarer than
gold. When you get some, embrace it and find out how to get
more.
- Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, Trust
Economies
Take a deep breath.
- Skype
Tags work
very well. I knew I could not design an ontology that would
work for all of you because you all have different views.
- Steve Coast, State
Of The Map 2007
As far as NPR.org — sure, I want the traffic to increase,
but to me the ultimate goal is not just bringing people to this
walled garden that is NPR.org.
- Vivian Schiller, Why
NPR is the Future of Mainstream Media
The cookies on my daughter's computer know more about her interests
than her teachers do.
– Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists,
quoted by Marc Prensky, To
educate, we must listen (PDF)
Instead of entrepreneurs saying "I'm going to start this
new little web service, and I'm going to go raise $5 million
in venture capital, and I'm going to have this big business
plan," people had to to ask themselves, "What's a
cheap way to do this? What's a cheap way to accomplish my goal?"
And, very often, the cheap way was to get the users involved.
And once we started down that path, the possibilities just opened
up.
Clay Shirky, Worldchanging
Interview
If you use email, you have a spam filter. You block out the
sales pitches, fake information, and random noise that constantly
flow toward your inbox. In the coming week, I urge you to expand
your concept of what constitutes spam by shielding yourself
against all the other junk food for thought that besieges you.
Be ruthlessly discerning about the toxins that spew from the
radio, TV, Web, newspapers, and magazines. Minimize your contact
with narcissists who think 'conversation' consists of you soaking
up their compulsive self-revelations.
- Rob Brezsny, Free
Will Astrology
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century
environment that still characterizes the educational establishment
where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented,
classified patterns subjects and schedules.
- Marshall McLuhan, cited in A
vision of students today - YouTube
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of
organizing information than our current categorization schemes
allow, based on two units -- the link, which can point to anything,
and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The
strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to
categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster,
but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount
of value from big messy data sets.
- Clay Shirky, Ontology
is Overrated
One reason Google was adopted so quickly when it came along
is that Google understood there is no shelf, and that there
is no file system. Google can decide what goes with what after
hearing from the user, rather than trying to predict in advance
what it is you need to know.
- Clay Shirky, Ontology
is Overrated
We are moving away from binary categorization -- books either
are or are not entertainment -- and into this probabilistic
world, where N% of users think books are entertainment. It may
well be that within Yahoo, there was a big debate about whether
or not books are entertainment. But they either had no way of
reflecting that debate or they decided not to expose it to the
users. What instead happened was it became an all-or-nothing
categorization, "This is entertainment, this is not entertainment."
We're moving away from that sort of absolute declaration, and
to observing how people handle it in practice.
- Clay Shirky, Ontology
is Overrated
If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the
world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view,
applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege
one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead
is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can
roll up to something which is of value in aggregate, but you
do it without an ontological goal. You do it without a goal
of explicitly getting to or even closely matching some theoretically
perfect view of the world.
- Clay Shirky, Ontology
is Overrated
In a high technology age, you actually want easy entertainment.
- Roger Beaumont, jumpin
If it fits, embrace social networks. Let a thousand flowers
bloom.
- Steve Bridger, Thinking
about social networks
If you use email, you have a spam filter. You block out the
sales pitches, fake information, and random noise that constantly
flow toward your inbox. In the coming week, I urge you to expand
your concept of what constitutes spam by shielding yourself
against all the other junk food for thought that besieges you.
Be ruthlessly discerning about the toxins that spew from the
radio, TV, Web, newspapers, and magazines. Minimize your contact
with narcissists who think 'conversation' consists of you soaking
up their compulsive self-revelations.
- Rob Brezsny, Free
Will Astrology
Skype me.
- Conversation
What's a blog?
- Conversation
We're ahead of the curve. Soon postmodern complexity will be
the norm.
- Conversation
I'm not a joiner.
- Conversation with a new Flickr member on joining her first
group.
Travelers go to developing nations 'armed' with phones.
- Gilad, Indigi-Net:
travel globally, act locally
She does not know how to work in real time.
- Conversation
Businesses are now discovering that their marketing and public
relations purposes may now be better served by slick World Wide
Web pages on the Internet and Superbowl advertising spots than
by investing in monumental architecture on expensive urban sites.
- William J. Mitchell, Placing
Words
Newspaper critics are being bypassed by web sites where people
are allowed to become critics themselves. And nearly all these
sites are a two-way conversation. Especially in areas like Travel,
the younger generation wants to read information by people like
themselves. So a newspaper has a choice. They can say we are
the experts, or they can say 'this is interesting' ask their
readers to comment.
- Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, quoted in Mike
Butcher's A
pincer movement on the papers
Web users don't behave.
- Jeanne
L. Allert, Internet consultant
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