I'm in yr fur, mashing you up.

It's behind you.

Digital 2.0 lets you fill your (pretty and reusable) bag of tricks with lots of exciting skills and experiences see slide 20 of | View | Upload your own

Digital 2.0 can take you places that you might not have been without you falling down. It is scary, exciting and constraining at the same time; and sold as a leisure commodity.

What could be more mashed up than a quilt?
...made of fabrics that have been cut and assembled with craft and to form a concept (and keep you warm)
.... each of which (fabric)
..............may have been printed or embroidered or otherwise embellished
..............and is woven from threads
.....................each of which may be dyed and is definitely spun with other threads
So it takes skill, imagination, and the work of others to make a Digital 2.0 creation

From digitally Daliesque to fractally mobbed.

One of my favorite sessions at the last Emerge online conference, Exploring User 2.0, was the hands-on closing session on Digital Storytelling. John Sandars invited us to upload a single image 'that represents your feelings about engaging with web 2.0 technologies' prior to the session, and we talked through 12 submitted pictures.

The session was very lively, thought provoking and funny. People who had submitted pictures and were present talked through what they were trying to get at. Some people adopted orphaned slides and tried to imagine what their creators had been trying to get at, or made up their own versions. There was a fair amount of collective meaning making, and many salutary reminders that meaning is a slippery, uncontrollable beast.

If you'd like to join in, you can go do so now with this special extended SlideShare version. All the slides are up, accompanied by snippets from the sessions text chat. Please do add your own thoughts or impressions to one (or more!) of the pictures.

If one of the pictures is yours, I'll be asking you to send me further details for posting next week (once everyone has had a chance to peruse the images and leave comments). I'll be asking for a sentence of what the picture is of (& how it was made, if that's relevant) and info about what you were trying to represent.

To me, the session really represented the strengths of our serious fun ethos - using an innovative approach to reflective practice to scratch well past the surface of users experiences. Enjoy!

Some comments from the chat room:



PatParslow: Uncertainty

Mitul: the oh really owl

PatParslow: O RLY? is web 2 inspired

Josie Fraser: LOLspeak

PatParslow: indeed. delicious names has flavr u kno

Josie Fraser: what does web 2.0 mean?

PatParslow: But it isn't blue! Web2.0 is Blue!

Josie Fraser: rounded edges!

Josie Fraser: should be blue

Josie Fraser: cyan

Joe Rosa: Casper the ghostly friend

Josie Fraser: an in joke

Stuart Lamour: indeed - on many levels

Josie Fraser: is web 2.0 just an in joke?

Steven Warburton: try and separate the rhetoric from the experience

Stuart Lamour: http://icanhaz.com/jisco01

Steven Warburton: you have your voice?

Steven Warburton: a very expressive tool

Josie Fraser: Also - I think you can have a rich, complex experience with just text & some crappy emoticons

PatParslow: written language is very expressive too - I think there have been quite a few novels which prove that

Dawn Wood: i think web 2.0 has let a lot of people find there voice

Steven Warburton: web2.0 was never a technology?

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Stuart Lamour: bambino !

Mitul: start them young

PatParslow: Next generation computing

Patsy Clarke: Surrounded by technology

Graham: child labour

Stuart Lamour: is the baby using the laptop already ?

Patsy Clarke: But some treeware in the background on teh shelf too

PatParslow: A varied mix of tech

Jill Taylor: Work life balance

Dawn Wood: working from home

Mitul: yes, they are growing up in a world where this stuff is ordinary

Mitul: as in not new

George Roberts: working with babies and aluminium Macs

Dawn Wood: usb baby !

Mitul: flowers in background

Josie Fraser: limited physical oppertunities - using technology to move around and communicate

Jim Hensman: But the baby isn't impressed by the technology

PatParslow: Baby is too small to be impressed by it yet

Josie Fraser: maybe about priorities

John Davies: blurring work/life boundaries that technology affords (might be a good or bad thing)?

Stuart Lamour: working from home must be usefull with a new baby

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Steven Warburton: media rich

Graham Attwell: need a lot of pockets to carry that lot

PatParslow: reflection...

Joe Rosa: mirroring?

Graham Attwell: and youd never get throguh airport security

Patsy Clarke: Neat as in neat and tidy

Josie Fraser: very compartmentalised

PatParslow: Get's half way through then gets out of order - sounds web2.0 to me!

Mitul: yes, ordered and grid like

PatParslow: pretty

PatParslow: or a brain

Josie Fraser: or a dandelion

Mitul: a leaf

Dawn Wood: a snow flake

Steven Warburton: rhizomatic

Josie Fraser: a rorschach image

Jill Taylor: Or the universe?

Mitul: or fall onto spikey things

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Mitul: ahh, bless, shes got her dress all wet

Graham Attwell: its a waterproof dress

PatParslow: no it is a zebra skin float

Patsy Clarke: I like the various types of stairs - choice of optional paths

Mitul: ahh, so its about opportunity then

Graham Attwell: floating or sinking?

PatParslow: ah yes nice, I missed the (sub)(e)merge aspect, nice

Patsy Clarke: Swimming in your shoes is intriguing too

Dawn Wood: explores unknown desires

Steven Warburton: just come to london. There is a shop for everything here

PatParslow: and the connectivity is web2.0 too

Mitul: the slightly weirdo group is 2.0 as well I guess

Patsy Clarke: Yes Ophelia

John Davies: holding the flowers

Stuart Lamour: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/fleischmann/d_a...

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PatParslow: The Queen is a geyser

Patsy Clarke: Well Darwin broke through current beliefs

PatParslow: conservative values being broken by new thinking leading to an explosion (of ideas?)

Josie Fraser: Money!

Josie Fraser: Beards!

Graham Attwell: water

Josie Fraser: Gysers!

Graham Attwell: more water

Dawn Wood: old faithfull

Stuart Lamour: is it a hotspring ?

Steven Warburton: devaluing

Patsy Clarke: crashing waves of....?

John Davies: gueysers with money - back to the gender debate...

Josie Fraser: counterfit?

Patsy Clarke: Perhaps a whale just dove down?

Josie Fraser: mash up

Graham Attwell: web 20.0

Steven Warburton: instability

PatParslow: that's a 2.0 note surely

Josie Fraser: means Frances has got more money than me

Patsy Clarke: Perhaps it is a 2.0 pound note?

Steven Warburton: disguise?

Steven Warburton: identity

PatParslow: Only my earlier one about conservative values being broken by revolutionary ideas leading to an explosion of ideas (in case you missed it!)

Graham Attwell: identity problem?

Josie Fraser: Explosions

Graham Attwell: its evolve

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Steven Warburton: twitter?

PatParslow: flocking

PatParslow: blue interfaces

Patsy Clarke: Flying - collaboration -

Dawn Wood: freedom

Josie Fraser: is Lawrie leaving the country soon?

Patsy Clarke: Focused

Mitul: collaboration, the way they move and turn etc

PatParslow: Flocking, of course, doesn't require much brain power - is this a metaphor for the mob as opposed to following the crowd?

Josie Fraser: birds of a feather - maybe about cliques?

John Davies: all the same species though - not much diversity...

Josie Fraser: bird poop

Stuart Lamour: interrelationships and patterns

Dawn Wood: is linked to herding cats?

PatParslow: Web2.0 - watch out for your icecream and sandwiches

Josie Fraser: Lawrie also likes birds a lot

John Davies: optimal foraging behaviour - moving to the best sites...

Patsy Clarke: And the deep blue sea

PatParslow: I am sure it is the blue interfaces that makes it relate ot Web2.0 personally

Josie Fraser: he knows something about interoprability that we don't

Stuart Lamour: birds position themselves in flight based around 5 items in their field of view

Dawn Wood: may be its just taking your breath away

George Roberts: there is a dinosaur just off the frame left

Josie Fraser: Web 2.0: The scope! The Grandure!

Patsy Clarke: They could almost be going in either direction which is front /back?

PatParslow: There is also similar behaviour occurring beneath those waves that this clique won't see (or will eat the actors, of course)

Graham Attwell: or just staying still

Graham Attwell: how do we know they are moving

PatParslow: they would fall out of the sky otherwise Graham

Mitul: yes below the surface is a diff story altogether

PatParslow: adhocracies - dynamic networks

Josie Fraser: not much diversity in this pic though

Stuart Lamour: bio-diversity ?

Steven Warburton: from this distance no

PatParslow: Hidden by the dominant voce of the flock

Steven Warburton: but closer perhaps yes

Graham Attwell: something about winging it

PatParslow: @Graham or being bird-brained?

Josie Fraser: Perhaps birds represent a higher life form to Lawrie

Graham Attwell: birds with a telephone - theres an idea

Mitul: nah, youd never get them off the line

PatParslow: Adhocracies occur for real reasons - organised CoPs are there because of a percieved purpose surely, hopefully shared

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Josie Fraser: through a glass darkly George

Josie Fraser: opacity

Mitul: or is that bottom of a pint

Dawn Wood: window shopping

Dawn Wood: the reflection of the real world

Josie Fraser: The most global slide I think

Mitul: sure enough, we talk about photoshopping things now

Josie Fraser: the only one with groups of people in it too, interestingly

Comments from the chat room included:



George Roberts: men shopping

Patsy Clarke: A bag for life?

Mitul: http://infomancie.wordpress.com/

Josie Fraser: is it an empty bag?

Graham Attwell: no there is something in it

Patsy Clarke: It has something interestingly shaped in it?

Josie Fraser: some men like flowers

Graham Attwell: I like flowers

PatParslow: Do men normally take any notice of the design on the bag?

Steven Warburton: of course they do!!

Patsy Clarke: Isn't everything gendered in some way?

Josie Fraser: Web 2.0 is gendered cos the world in gendered

Josie Fraser: online spaces aren't exempt from offline politics

Graham Attwell: also questions of aesthetics

Graham Attwell: aesthetics important for web 2.0

George Roberts: The world is 'othered'

PatParslow: I don't think it is more differentiating, just that because any differentiation on gender will split the world 50/50 (I know gender is not that simple, really, before anyone points out the other gender choices!)

George Roberts: us and them: colonisers, hegemonists and the opposite

Stuart Lamour: is facebook just for girls ?

John Davies: I guess something like second life isn't gendered (given avatar) bit steve w. would know more about this

Stuart Lamour: i know more girls that use ebay than boys

George Roberts: All them lady market traders

Comments from the chat room included:



Josie Fraser: About perspective & the emotional experience

Josie Fraser: is there a safety net?

Stuart Lamour: http://www.goape.co.uk/ ?

Josie Fraser: also - there will always be people with vertigo!

George Roberts: Tightrope walk

Patsy Clarke: Men leading?

Dawn Wood: no

Josie Fraser: Men leading - interesting

PatParslow: I like the way there is only the main subject and one other person in the trees one

Comments from the chat room included:



Steven Warburton: collage

Steven Warburton: or bricolage

Stuart Lamour: is there some welsh on it ?

Stuart Lamour: gwryrdd ?

Patsy Clarke: colourful, busy, multlilevels, interwoven

John Davies: the jumble and chaos of Web 2.0

Patsy Clarke: jumbles of sound coming over

Stuart Lamour: snakes and ladders

George Roberts: Very consistent synchrony in the visual identity

Stuart Lamour: a mash-up of feeds

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