Some believe that the proliferation of blogs, wikis, tagging and other so-called social technologies is inspiring a networking revolution on the Internet. Post your thoughts on this issue in comments below.
In just a few years no one, big or small, will have absolute control over entertainment. We're getting back to our roots, when audience applause mattered more than marketing budgets.
It's inspiring to hear all this talk about taking back the Web, but we've heard this all before, no? Remember that Yahoo bought Flickr, Fox bought MySpace, and many others are rumored to be in play. Power to the people? Enjoy it while it lasts.
It's all well and good saying that the people are taking back the media, but where will the money come from to produce the records/movies/...
Big business will always own mainstream media as they have the money to support it, while the niche players will still be niche, but with the internet as a market tool as well as traditional methods.
"The same is true for most everything" should of course read "The same is true for almost everything", but I seem unable to edit the article and correct it.
I've used Wikipedia and MS Encarta about the same amount and I can say Wikipedia seems to be more historically neutral than Encarta. Whereas Encarta has some egregious rewrites of history to suit the editors, thus far I haven't had any historical objections to anything in Wiki. The more I use Wikipedia, the more I like it.
Wikis lack the professional, scholarly journalistic content of mainstream TV news shows like Today that show Al Roker being blown over by the winds of an approaching hurricane. Because of this defcit, they will fail, according to Jeff Zucker.
Seriously, I like many folks have abandoned TV news except for PBS. What can you expect from news departments that report up to the entertainment group. How much time do you want to waste watching Katie Couric with that sh*t eating grin dribbling her nonsense? How many stories do you want to hear about high petrol prices only being told from the perspective of auto drivers? Like, there is no impact of high petrol prices on truckers? On FedEx/UPS? I'm seeing shipping prices for mail order small items that sometimes exceed the cost of the item itself? With this kind of tunnel-vision reporting, you may as well get your news from the paperboy down the street.
The group of museums exploring how tagging can enable use of museum collections -- and foster links between people and institutions -- can be found at <a href="http://www.steve.museum/">www.steve.museum</a>.
I love the idea of the community tagging content to make it more relevant when you are searching. I think eventually, there has to be some taxonomy that defines this (such as the dewey decimal system) to allow for folks to remember the more and more obscure tags that will have to be created to keep things unique (and prevent folks from stepping on each others toes)
Great to see the social aspects of the INternet beating the technological aspects though !!!
Tagging and Folksonomy - much more than social browsing
Tagging and social browsing are becoming very popular now. This concept is much powerful than it appears to be. Recently, I read about this tool called FolkMind that will enhance the Search experience by making use of these tags added by the community. Read more about it at: * <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.folk-mind.org" target="_newWindow">http://www.folk-mind.org</a> * <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/11/13/is_folkmind_better_than_google.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/11/13/is_folkmind_better_than_google.html</a>
I recently contacted Valentine One the Radar Detector maker. I inquired as to the possibility of creating a detector that would integrate a 360-degree display converged with a real-time GPS. If producible, the combined capabilities would display (with pinpoint accuracy) the location of Police monitoring traffic with RADAR. I'd pay $1,000 for that detector!
Although it's a bit new, I found this mapping-travel-site, to be more innovative. Not only does it allow you to post pics and write a blog of teh pllaces you've been, but it can help you plan your future trips too! Take a look,
According to my statistic at least 40 mashups are created every day using <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.mapbuilder.net" target="_newWindow">http://www.mapbuilder.net</a> service. People tag more than 200 locations per day.
"And it normalizes for them that they can ignore conventions."
The preceding quote is attributed to one expert quoted in the article. That expert is commenting unfavorably on the trends presented in the article. Ironically, if the above quote is correct, could the trends be worth their weight in gold?
Tags don't seem very new. In the early 70's, systems engineers doing 'requirements analysis' for 'one-of-a-kind' systems would break the ice by using a "wags, tags, bags" process in which the first step was to gather up all the 'partly-baked' WAGS that could be conceived about the system. The next was to TAG those WAGS so as to remove duplicates, shadows, and near neighbors. The last was to BAG the tags into categories each of whose content would span some dimension of the system-to-be. Method wasn't fit for finding directions in the daylight, but could be suprisingly useful for helping a group to grope its way out of the dark. Perhaps web tags have a similar fitness characteristic.
These new collaborative approaches are going to change the way that organizations produce innovation. Google is already showing that it can work. I have written an essay entitled "Turning Knowledge Workers into Innovation Creators" that details how the principles of spontaneous organization, or what I refer to as an emergent organization, can be used to produce an environment that fosters innovation creators.
If you are interested, you can find out more at www.innovationcreators.com.
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I agree with a lot of what the article is arguing about technology with the generation in the 80's and 90's, however, it is watered down with many assumptions about what ALL of the kids from this generation are like. Aside from a few choice college students, the majority of the "supporting cast" were kids that were about 10-15 years old, placing the 1990's. I was born in 1982 and naturally I have many friends born around the same time, but from what I have seen in college for the past five years doesn't completely apply to everyone within the selected "Millennials" time frame.
I do use instant messenger, just recently got a cell phone, and love to play video games, but don't competely rely on these technological advances for my survival, as the article seems to get at. At one point on the first page, a statement claims that "no member of this generation, is can be assumed, would ever wait on a street corner for a late friend." Maybe I'm the only one who may think this, but when one bases an argument on assumed information and a few loose facts and opinions, there cannot be a strong argument for oneself. It almost seems like Stefanie Olsen is doing just that in this article. I can just as easily counter this article with similar assumptions about how these so-called new "Millennials" live their lives.
I do agree with the fact that there are a lot of people from my generation that fit these assumptions quite well, however, many of these people also rely on the "old fashioned" model that some English teachers seem to be trying to hold on to. I will be an English teacher within the next year after I graduate, but there are many students and children from the "Millennial" generation who still read newspapers, go to the library, and in a sense, still read books. Olsen throws in a few quotes from college students who "can't remember the last time" they read a newspaper or the only reason for using "the library is for group meetings." Where is the voice of the multitude of students who do use the library's facilities or from the students that painstakingly write the school newspaper? I guess it's just assumed that they must have no comment on the subject or that they just don't exisit within the world of this newly coined "Millennials" generation.
Many people in this country seem to see things solely in black and white, right and wrong, or moral and immoral, but how come we can never just find that middle ground? My friend's father once told me something; gave me some life advice once. He said that there can be two people who meet face to face at a fence and turn back to back. One person seeing the whole world that they believe in on their side of the fence while the other person does the same. Now imagine those two people climb that fence and sit side by side, still staring to the world that they deem the "right" world through their own eyes. There will come times when there are these arguments over right and wrong, black and white, and so on. The one solution is to lean back a little bit, look the other person in the eyes, and meet eye to eye on something. You both still get to view the world how each sees it since you are still facing it, but now you can come to that middle ground that many people seem to want to avoid. I saw Olsen's article as her just viewing the world how she sees it and she didn't want to lean back at all to see the millions of children from the "Millennial" generation staring her back in the eyes to say "hey, not everyone born in the 80's and 90's are cloned robots. Everyone is different and not everyone is completely overtaken by AIM, MySpace, and all of these other technological advances as you so vaguely put it."
I found that there is another online service site to be more innovative. It not only allows you to read and post blogs, reviews and comments on any webpage, it also can put tags on the content of webpage.If you'd like, you could have online discussion, chatting and blogging with others who are viewing the same page.
Mashups are leveraging the fact that information and presentation are being separated in ways that allow for novel forms of reuse like a new web 2.0 project like bashr.com that mashes together Wikipedia, flickr and Delicious on millions of topics.
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Big business will always own mainstream media as they have the money to support it, while the niche players will still be niche, but with the internet as a market tool as well as traditional methods.
same is true for almost everything", but I seem unable to edit the
article and correct it.
Some examples: Darmaps, for real-time
"Darmaps" should be "Dartmaps".
Seriously, I like many folks have abandoned TV news except for PBS. What can you expect from news departments that report up to the entertainment group. How much time do you want to waste watching Katie Couric with that sh*t eating grin dribbling her nonsense? How many stories do you want to hear about high petrol prices only being told from the perspective of auto drivers? Like, there is no impact of high petrol prices on truckers? On FedEx/UPS? I'm seeing shipping prices for mail order small items that sometimes exceed the cost of the item itself? With this kind of tunnel-vision reporting, you may as well get your news from the paperboy down the street.
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jt
Great to see the social aspects of the INternet beating the technological aspects though !!!
pronounced the same is a VERY DEROGATORY word
for home-sexuals
No big deal.
* <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.folk-mind.org" target="_newWindow">http://www.folk-mind.org</a>
* <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/11/13/is_folkmind_better_than_google.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/11/13/is_folkmind_better_than_google.html</a>
more innovative. Not only does it allow you to post pics and write
a blog of teh pllaces you've been, but it can help you plan your
future trips too! Take a look,
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.blogabond.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.blogabond.com/</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.markovic.com/ebay/google-map-search/" target="_newWindow">http://www.markovic.com/ebay/google-map-search/</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://coolgooglemaps.blogspot.com/" target="_newWindow">http://coolgooglemaps.blogspot.com/</a>
The preceding quote is attributed to one expert quoted in the article. That expert is commenting unfavorably on the trends presented in the article. Ironically, if the above quote is correct, could the trends be worth their weight in gold?
If you are interested, you can find out more at www.innovationcreators.com.
Weather Bonk
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.weatherbonk.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.weatherbonk.com</a>
Live webcams, weather observations, radar overlays, and forecasts
Ski Bonk
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.skibonk.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.skibonk.com</a>
Current skiing conditions with webcams and weather information. Includes feature to predict snowfall at various resorts using NWS Digital Forecast.
I do use instant messenger, just recently got a cell phone, and love to play video games, but don't competely rely on these technological advances for my survival, as the article seems to get at. At one point on the first page, a statement claims that "no member of this generation, is can be assumed, would ever wait on a street corner for a late friend." Maybe I'm the only one who may think this, but when one bases an argument on assumed information and a few loose facts and opinions, there cannot be a strong argument for oneself. It almost seems like Stefanie Olsen is doing just that in this article. I can just as easily counter this article with similar assumptions about how these so-called new "Millennials" live their lives.
I do agree with the fact that there are a lot of people from my generation that fit these assumptions quite well, however, many of these people also rely on the "old fashioned" model that some English teachers seem to be trying to hold on to. I will be an English teacher within the next year after I graduate, but there are many students and children from the "Millennial" generation who still read newspapers, go to the library, and in a sense, still read books. Olsen throws in a few quotes from college students who "can't remember the last time" they read a newspaper or the only reason for using "the library is for group meetings." Where is the voice of the multitude of students who do use the library's facilities or from the students that painstakingly write the school newspaper? I guess it's just assumed that they must have no comment on the subject or that they just don't exisit within the world of this newly coined "Millennials" generation.
Many people in this country seem to see things solely in black and white, right and wrong, or moral and immoral, but how come we can never just find that middle ground? My friend's father once told me something; gave me some life advice once. He said that there can be two people who meet face to face at a fence and turn back to back. One person seeing the whole world that they believe in on their side of the fence while the other person does the same. Now imagine those two people climb that fence and sit side by side, still staring to the world that they deem the "right" world through their own eyes. There will come times when there are these arguments over right and wrong, black and white, and so on. The one solution is to lean back a little bit, look the other person in the eyes, and meet eye to eye on something. You both still get to view the world how each sees it since you are still facing it, but now you can come to that middle ground that many people seem to want to avoid. I saw Olsen's article as her just viewing the world how she sees it and she didn't want to lean back at all to see the millions of children from the "Millennial" generation staring her back in the eyes to say "hey, not everyone born in the 80's and 90's are cloned robots. Everyone is different and not everyone is completely overtaken by AIM, MySpace, and all of these other technological advances as you so vaguely put it."
Take a look,
www.netmite.com
Sincerely,
Krzysztof Mucha
www.Usaado.com