Morning Thurs 8th April
Yammer is to be the new challenge, although it sounds no more complicated for the end-user than Twitter. At least it doesn’t have the same poor public image that Twitter does … does it have a public image at all? More appropriate for corporate use so perhaps less popular coverage ... Carolyn Clarke's "quiet discovery" (UK EDF Energy) http://www.intranetfuture.com/2009/09/making-most-of-yammer.html
Kevin Kelly ‘Penny Thoughts on the Technium’
"I‘m interested in how people personally decide to refuse a technology … The only way we can sort our identity is by not using technology".
There are so many things I am not using, although that is more by default than design and many people do not have the luxury of refusal yet. One of the class members speaks of fb banned in Syria, Google has pulled out of China …
I am now regularly using and contributing to (in order of frequency):
- blog for reflection and study most days
- fb for class and personal use – checking most days and starting to supersede twitter as the format encourages discussion and follow-up
- delicious for everyday bookmarking - content now requires management to be useful (likewise Bookmarks on my laptop)
- flickr for class and personal use, including partially successful set-up of private family group to retain strict control of shared children’s photos
- sl for class use merging into personal use at rather dilettante entry level – tempting to gain familiarity and some expertise with the environment but not very time effective
- twitter for class and very minimal personal use – certainly useful for quick consciousness raising but frustratingly like a poor game of ping pong; fast shots fired at random, little interaction – my use has decreased more or less in line with reported user statistics but I enjoyed customising my home page with a photographic background from iPhoto.
I am using but not often contributing to:
- wikis
- official work related blogs
- youtube
I haven’t yet embarked on the promised exploration of:
- Ning
- Jing
- Pageflakes
- StumbleUpon
To develop and retain high-level info literacy in this rapid turnover technology environment seems nearly insurmountable. Definitely garnering the wisdom of the masses is necessary and acceptable behaviour. As with any other literacy, expert communities will flourish and the masses will trail along.
Studying 2.0 is an exercise in awareness, of trying to gauge the impact of technology on a social environment. Actions in real life often have both positive and negative outcomes, but nowhere do the two seem more intertwined than in discussion of 2.0 tools. The outcomes cannot even be branded positive and negative, they are simply the reverse side of the technological impact. Discussion of 2.0 requires constant lateral and inverse thinking, much like the black and white psychological test image of the old/young woman’s face in profile or other reverse images.
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