Being There In The Unevenly Distributed Future

Being There in the unevenly distributed future Alan Levine The New Media Consortium

Who is Chance?
“Being There”
(1979)

Standing on the Shoulders… cc licensed Flickr photo by mushon

disclaimer cc licensed Flickr photo by Adam Melancon

Send a Signal
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Start With The #*@% Demo! cc licensed Flickr photo by silentvale photos

Facing the Future… cc licensed Flickr photo by Eisenvater

Or Facing the Future? Flickr photo by Jon Pawley

Expert-iness

Trust and Truth

Standup and Shout cropped cc licensed flickr photo by Guy James I Don’t Have to be a technology expert!

How does it feel? cc Licensed flickr photo by carf

We are the network cc Licensed flickr photo by carf Expertise is in our networks

gapingvoid cartoon by Hugh MacLeod

Connectivism

what if?

Let’s Start with a Dumb Statement cc licensed Flickr photo by me

the internet is really big cc licensed Flickr photo by Foxicat Me at the Grand Canyon, Monday

Google Stopped Counting modified from cc licensed Flickr photo by pacek

Technorati: Blog Growth Technorati State of the Live Web, April 2007 1.4 bps 1.5M ppd 17 pps

Measure By Daffodils March 23, 2007: cc licensed flickr photo by cogdog (me!)

Seeing Networks cc Licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy 18,000,000 facebook users! 44,000,000 90% of US college students have Facebook accounts, and half of them login every day. 11.4 million, or 33% of the Canadian population, has joined Facebook as of June 2007 Facebook’s Australian population grew by 80% in June 2007

“Being” in the network cc Licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy

All of This for Everyone? cc Licensed flickr photo by kk+

A Riff on Cover Bands cc Licensed flickr photo by ognam

What I Learned from Johnny Cash

Advice Has A Shelf Life

The Dumbest Thing I’ve Heard of…

The Twitter Life Cycle CogDogBlog Apr 26, 2007

Twittery Demo
Tweet via the web, IM, phone, app
Twittervision
RSS to Twitter
Twittercamp

Library RSS Feed
Remote Collaboration
John Edwards’ Friends
Productivity?
Can Twitter Save Lives?
Church Twittering
Server Monitoring
ZombieAttack, TwitterLit
BookTwo
BBC, NPR, CNN, more
Then It Gets Interesting

Really Interesting

How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination. -- Clive Thomson, Wired June 2007 cc Licensed flickr photo by smallandround

Lessons Learned

Looking in From the Outside cc Licensed flickr photo by diluvium

Blaming Technology for Content cc Licensed flickr photo by Daniel Light

What you see… • Inane babbling What it affords • web+mobile ???? cc Licensed flickr photo by Cati Kaoe

Attributes 2.0 Implications
Does ‘One’ Thing
Multiple Inputs
One Click Connect
RSS
Open API
Customizable
Focused (?)
Plays Well with Others
Friends / Contacts
Republish / Connect
New Free Tools
Personalize

Silly Cats

Did You Ever Think There is a Community For… cc Licensed flickr photo by me! Vegafitti Flickr Pool

“I Like To Watch”

Being Anywhere

Unknown Flowers cc Licensed flickr photo by me!

Commenting
Comment Blogging
François Lachance (Comment Blogger)
Flickr Comment on 3 Year Old Photo
A Week in Feb 2007
Flickr Contacts
cocomment
cc Licensed flickr photo by copperhorse

And now for something completely different… but not so different

“Being” in Second Life NMC Campus Observer July 4 2006 Space Shuttle Lift Off

Theater Workshop NMC Campus Observer Second Life Theater Workshop

Gathering in SL NMC Campus

Too Much?

On “Keeping Ahead” Gardner Campbell, University of Mary Washington Vidya Ananthanarayanan , Trinity University Philip Long, MIT George Siemens, University of Manitoba

“ Being” Tips cc licensed flickr photo by Chris Seufert

Sense of Play cc licensed flickr photo by silentvale photos

Everyone’s Favorite Subject cc licensed flickr photo by Kevin Yezblick

May Not Know / See / Like Audience cc licensed flickr photo by Jeremy et al

Mistakes OK cc licensed flickr photo by mcmrbt “ If it drops, pick it up”

Document, Leave Tracks cc licensed flickr photo by icatus

Just Bring People Together cc licensed flickr photo by Farhang

Alfredo & Questions
Where do we draw boundary between personal and academic?
What happens if we ignore what’s outside the walls?
Who drives decision making?
How do we engage / inspire without needing “control”?

Facing the Future… cc licensed Flickr photo by Eisenvater

Or Facing the Future? Flickr photo by Jon Pawley

Long Tail From photo of my friend Harry

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else -- Winston Churchill cc licensed Flickr photo by otherthings

Launch Rotten Tomatoes cc Licensed flickr photo by exopetes [email_address] [email_address] http://cogdogblog.com/ http://del.icio.us/cogdog http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog http://sl.nmc.org/ http://www.nmc.org/ http://cogdogroo.wordpress.com/ http://dommy.com/ihaterunning http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/ http://www.bloglines.com/public/cogdog http://twitter.com/cogdog http://cogdogblog.pbwiki.com/ http://cogdog.suprglu.com/ http://www.cocomment.com/comments/cogdog http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogblog http://www.slideshare.net/cogdog

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Being There In The Unevenly Distributed Future

by Alan Levine on Oct 15, 2007

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