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idc_texts: Some Exploratory Notes on Produsers and Produsage - 0 views

  • These changes are facilitated (although, importantly, not solely driven) by the emergence of new, participatory technologies of information access, knowledge exchange, and content production, many of whom are associated with Internet and new media technologies.
  • J.C. Herz has described the same process as ‘harnessing the hive’ (2005) – that is, the harnessing of promising and useful ideas, generated by expert consumers, by commercial producers (and sometimes under ethically dubious models which appear to exploit and thus hijack the hive as a cheap generator of ideas, rather than merely harnessing it in a benign fashion).
  • These produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are instead involved in produsage – the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement.
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  • In such models, the production of ideas takes place in a collaborative, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge, or what I have come to produsers (also see Bruns 2005a).
  • Sites of produsage flourish if they can attract a large number of engaged and experienced participants who adhere to the ideals of the site. This requires a balance between openness and structure – if sites are seen as being controlled by a closed in-group of participants, they are unlikely to attract new produsers into the fold, as these are likely to feel alienated; on the other hand, if anyone can participate without any sense of oversight by individuals or the established community as a whole, then cohesion is likely to be lost.
  • At such stages, projects often rely on a small number of highly engaged contributors, and it is crucial for them to both convey a sense of purpose and drive for the project as well as create an environment which invites participation from new contributors.
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    referenced in Scope Conf SAF2008
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How tech wars end (Scripting News) - 0 views

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    Humankind lose its pirate mentality and warlike pride. Hmmm... nice to think about.
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globeandmail.com: Creating a global brain - 0 views

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    Great article from the Globe and Mail ( whoa!!) About the semantic web and some applications that are coming soon. Set up the BlueOrganizer addon for Firefox that has semantic web qualities, Hightlight a word and it will initiate a smart serach that you can organize with the app.
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What's Up with the Secret Cybersecurity Plans, Senators Ask DHS | Threat Level from Wir... - 0 views

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    When ever a government initiative is prefaced by a refference to nine eleven it makes me clench a bit.
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Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Is IT becoming Extinct - 0 views

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    Tried to leave a comment but it said I had unspecified parameters. Maybe I was just to long-winded. Anyway I wrote up my comment as a blog entry at http://ict07598.wordpress.com/in-house-dc-electrical-generating-plants/
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Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice - 0 views

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    High priced conference some good links on the page one being Is IT Becoming Extinct? Miguel Guhlin
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - 0 views

  • Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.
  • Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.
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    So all that time I spent just watching Get Smart didn't help my Cognitive account. Does it count if I can still recite all the best lines? So your Mr.Big... So your Mr. Smart.
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YouTube University gets failing grade from prof, students - 0 views

  • while the students were faced with having their classroom ideas judged not simply by their peers, but by a far wider audience.
  • diluted her role as an expert, reducing her to just another figure with limited video skills. That also limited her ability to act as an authority figure, one that plays an essential role in keeping the discussion from degenerating into chaos.
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    fantastic experiment not sure if the title of the article is justified in the text. Biggest complaint seems to be loss of control and authority. hmmm "Students having their classroom ideas judged not simply by their peers but by a far wider audience" and that is a bad thing because...?
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Government Investment Enhances Manitoba's Virtual Reality Technology Services - 0 views

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    How about that!
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Elevate 2008 - Reaching New Heights in Educational Videoconferencing - 0 views

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    An expensive three day F2F conference on videoconferencing. With registration, gas and jet fuel, accommodation and expenses, easily the cost of a classroom video conferencing unit for some remote school. To say nothing of the environmental impact and loss of productivity. Times XXX conference delegates....hmmmm let see. Holy crap you could have set up a couple of schools!
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George Siemens - whoisTV on blip.tv - 0 views

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    Some excellent videos of leading thinkers about Web. 20 and social networking and their impact on education and business.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Truth About IT Consultants | PBS - 0 views

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    When you get gov't (Dept of Ed) involved in IT for DE it ends up an enormous clusterfest. Takes years to even consider a proposal. Most of the folks making the executive decisions are a few years out from retirement and are hoping they can ride it out until magic 80. Don't have the background or authority to make effective choices only have authority to "consider" which means block.
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The Future of the Internet-And How to Stop It - 0 views

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    recommended on Stephens Web
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Robinson - 0 views

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    Many of the observations about the increasing costs of rural education apply in rural Canada as well. Rural schools with highschool enrollments of under 100 students can't be sustained using current models. However, the use of technology would make it possible to deliver world connecting education with a fraction of the cost. Which means that small rural schools could be sustained. We won't be having the standard industrial model of one teacher per class per grade. And maybe that's a good thing, it was kind of an arbitrary arrangement anyway, more for the sake of administration than learning.
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digital digs: Building Scholarly Networks - 0 views

  • We might like to think that information-sharing is intrinsic to academic work, especially academic work that is publicly funded. However we also place many restrictions on publishing, like peer review, and I imagine there are still academics who try to keep their work secret until it is ready for any number of semi-paranoid reasons. I'm not going to say we shouldn't do these things, but we need to recognize that the discipline works by controlling the production and distribution of disciplinary knowledge.
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    See Skirky Coasean floor- the cost of dissemintation of academic research has dropped to near zero. When institutions insist on exhorbitant journal access fees they doom themselves to irrelevance. Attention economy needs eyeballs and the eyeballs glaze over at the idea of paying $180.00 for a PDF report on online education in Canada, a publicly funded research project.(295 for the hard copy)
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Education Matters: Insights on education, learning and training in Canada - 0 views

  • Manitoba 28 35 37
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    Uniformly the education industrial complex is not keeping up with the adoption of ICT in the gen pop. Still stuck in the bums-in-seats mentality. This is in part because education is a major economic engine in a community. All the people who run the plant are voters and taxpayers. The old structures persist, not because they are the best model of educational excellence but because they are the source of the best jobs in town. Deans wife works in student services, the presidents cousins husband works in maintainence etc.
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Cognitive Edge - 0 views

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    followed the link through to the University of Chicago project on Wisdom. http://wisdomresearch.org/ I hope the Lord has mercy on my soul. I certainly won't insist on justice:>)
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Daily Kos: State of the Nation - 0 views

  • Bloggers are not competition to the traditional media -- though they do, hopefully, act as an occasional check on its excesses.  However, even if the Internet were entirely dedicated to the downfall of existing media, it would be only one popgun in a chorus of cannons.  A large part of the traditional media is dedicated to nothing less than making war on the rest.
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    Article on the Cult of the Professional response to Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur. I recently watched a web clip of a panel discussion that Keen did at Berkeley? (find link)
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    Cult of the Semi-pro?
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