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

Who is Chance? “Being There” (1979)

“Being There” (1979)

I Was There… er, here… 1992

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

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

My Network

Connectivism

Connectivism

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

the internet is really big cc licensed Flickr photo by Foxicat

the internet is really big Me at the Grand Canyon, May 2007

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 Old Data!

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

Seeing Networks cc Licensed flickr photo by dogfaceboy 44,000,000 facebook users! 70,000,000 90% of US college students have Facebook accounts, and half of them login every day. 6th most trafficked web site in world. 7 million active users in Canada, 21% of population.

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

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

Advice Has A Shelf Life

The Dumbest Thing I’ve Heard of…

CogDogBlog Apr 26, 2007

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

Tweet via the web, IM, phone, app

Twittervision

RSS to Twitter

Twitterverse

Library RSS Feed Remote Collaboration Barack has 28,000 Friends Productivity? Can Twitter Save Lives? Church Twittering Server Monitoring ZombieAttack, TwitterLit BookTwo BBC, NPR, CNN, more Then It Gets Interesting

Library RSS Feed

Remote Collaboration

Barack has 28,000 Friends

Productivity?

Can Twitter Save Lives?

Church Twittering

Server Monitoring

ZombieAttack, TwitterLit

BookTwo

BBC, NPR, CNN, more

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

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

Not So Silly Snippets

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

“I Like To Watch”

Video Twitter?

Being Anywhere

Streetview Movies?

Spontaneous Network Connections

Unknown Flowers cc Licensed flickr photo by me!

Amazing Serendipity cc Licensed flickr photo by me!

Commenting Comment Blogging François Lachance (Comment Blogger) Flickr Comment on 3 Year Old Photo A Week in Feb 2006-2008 Flickr Contacts cocomment cc Licensed flickr photo by copperhorse

Comment Blogging

François Lachance (Comment Blogger)

Flickr Comment on 3 Year Old Photo

A Week in Feb 2006-2008

Flickr Contacts

cocomment

Too Much?

SNF

“ 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”

Leave Tracks… cc licensed flickr photo by icatus

Curly’s Law

Nuggets or Fishing? cc licensed flickr photo by jumbledpie cc licensed flickr photo by dbang

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”?

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

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iGeneration: We are Part of It iGeneration Fan YouTube Video by mrobe05