This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
So... community
I think we lack it I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it but those examples are modeled after the "real" world in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning I think I need community I think the internet can help if we/it do it right I get online to commune with people with people I know with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?) What do you think of community? What is community?
My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself.
But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!
Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!
kjc6688 wrote: > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started. > > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts. > > So... community > > I think we lack it > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning > I think I need community > I think the internet can help > if we/it do it right > I get online to commune with people > with people I know > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also > > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?) > What do you think of community? > What is community?
abo46n2 wrote: > My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself. > > But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it! > > Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo! > > > > kjc6688 wrote: > > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started. > > > > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts. > > > > So... community > > > > I think we lack it > > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented > > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it > > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world > > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented > > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized > > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning > > I think I need community > > I think the internet can help > > if we/it do it right > > I get online to commune with people > > with people I know > > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also > > > > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?) > > What do you think of community? > > What is community?
Indeed... I arrived in Manhattan today. Unpacking is a disaster! Looking forward to gettin to the Quorum soon. I'll stop by tomorrow? I hear you're giving a blogging presentation to the TechBytes group. I've been invited to give a presentation on Diigo and social bookmarking... we should brainstorm. Oh, right... this is suppose to be a topic about community... uhh... community rules! Yea!
kjc6688 wrote: > The man, the legend, is back! > > > > abo46n2 wrote: > > My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself. > > > > But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it! > > > > Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo! > > > > > > > > kjc6688 wrote: > > > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started. > > > > > > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts. > > > > > > So... community > > > > > > I think we lack it > > > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented > > > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it > > > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world > > > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented > > > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized > > > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning > > > I think I need community > > > I think the internet can help > > > if we/it do it right > > > I get online to commune with people > > > with people I know > > > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also > > > > > > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?) > > > What do you think of community? > > > What is community?
Yeah, we definitely should brainstorm then. I haven't even begun to think about what I would want to say/present. Are there any other cool people doing tech bytes soon?
The idea would be to Create community. Not community online. The online part is just a potential enhancement. One that does not currently exist here, and perhaps in very few places. The online part can be a lubricant keeping the community machine running. My idea of community online and in the real world has one strong delimiting factor, physical location. To extend real life conversations in an online environment holds real potential in my mind. It extends the possibilities to a new medium, and thus a transformation of message, not too dissimilar from the difference between talking to someone on the phone and writing them a letter. Different medium, different message, both with benefits and both with drawbacks.
The whole idea is to make online much less about information and much more about connection. About using the information to get more connected. Inherent to getting more connected is the constant dialectic and fluidity of the question of identity and search for identity. There is no greater or more primary concern to us than identity. The possibilities of the online environment allow for an intense experience of the quest for identity.
The key to all my thoughts are not now, in the future. Not what is going on now, but possibilities for what could be going on. Not what we can think of, but what we have not yet thought of. I currently don´t find any sense of community online, but I imagine the potential. All my attempts are to try to inspire myself and others to create it. All my attempts are failures in that regard. The internet, like identity, like the world, are what we create it to be. Why not take this opportunity that no one has every had before in the annals of history to try to take it in some amazing direction? The tools are here, and simultaneously are coming; are you up for the challenge? We didn´t choose where we live or what we have available to us. Afro Reggae is not talking about internet movements and enhancing online interfaces. But put them in our shoes, and maybe they would be.
started by Kevin Champion on 11 Jul 07
However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
So... community
I think we lack it
I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
I think I need community
I think the internet can help
if we/it do it right
I get online to commune with people
with people I know
with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
What do you think of community?
What is community?
But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!
Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!
kjc6688 wrote:
> This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
>
> However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
>
> So... community
>
> I think we lack it
> I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
> I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
> but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
> in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
> everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
> I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
> I think I need community
> I think the internet can help
> if we/it do it right
> I get online to commune with people
> with people I know
> with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
>
> Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
> What do you think of community?
> What is community?
abo46n2 wrote:
> My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself.
>
> But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!
>
> Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!
>
>
>
> kjc6688 wrote:
> > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
> >
> > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
> >
> > So... community
> >
> > I think we lack it
> > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
> > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
> > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
> > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
> > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
> > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
> > I think I need community
> > I think the internet can help
> > if we/it do it right
> > I get online to commune with people
> > with people I know
> > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
> >
> > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
> > What do you think of community?
> > What is community?
kjc6688 wrote:
> The man, the legend, is back!
>
>
>
> abo46n2 wrote:
> > My reasons aren't much different then the ones you listed for yourself.
> >
> > But I must add that I think the web has tremendous potential for creating community... and it gives me goosebumps thinking about it!
> >
> > Oh, and I love getting online because, if you're clever enough, you have access to almost limitless information... woohoo!
> >
> >
> >
> > kjc6688 wrote:
> > > This is really a test to check out the forum and get it started.
> > >
> > > However, I have spent the last two years of my life thinking about community, so I might as well offer up some thoughts.
> > >
> > > So... community
> > >
> > > I think we lack it
> > > I think what we do have of it is incredibly fragmented
> > > I think the web offers very intriguing examples of it
> > > but those examples are modeled after the "real" world
> > > in the "real" world I think it is incredibly fragmented
> > > everywhere I find it, everywhere it is specialized
> > > I want less specialization, less fragmentation, more meaning
> > > I think I need community
> > > I think the internet can help
> > > if we/it do it right
> > > I get online to commune with people
> > > with people I know
> > > with people I can meet and talk to face to face also
> > >
> > > Why do you get online? (not so different from why do youtube?)
> > > What do you think of community?
> > > What is community?
The whole idea is to make online much less about information and much more about connection. About using the information to get more connected. Inherent to getting more connected is the constant dialectic and fluidity of the question of identity and search for identity. There is no greater or more primary concern to us than identity. The possibilities of the online environment allow for an intense experience of the quest for identity.
The key to all my thoughts are not now, in the future. Not what is going on now, but possibilities for what could be going on. Not what we can think of, but what we have not yet thought of. I currently don´t find any sense of community online, but I imagine the potential. All my attempts are to try to inspire myself and others to create it. All my attempts are failures in that regard. The internet, like identity, like the world, are what we create it to be. Why not take this opportunity that no one has every had before in the annals of history to try to take it in some amazing direction? The tools are here, and simultaneously are coming; are you up for the challenge? We didn´t choose where we live or what we have available to us. Afro Reggae is not talking about internet movements and enhancing online interfaces. But put them in our shoes, and maybe they would be.