NetDynam 2.0

From last night. This will go viral — big time.



Below the fold, both parts of Palin’s actual address. thx Frank
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on “Persistence and Change in Social Media”

“You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.” Heraclitus.

Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society

TOPIC OUTLINE

We seek papers for a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society on the twin topics of persistence and change in social media. From ICQ to IM, Six-degrees to Friendster to MySpace to Facebook to Twitter, change seems to be a recurrent theme in social media. Not only are users willing to try out new tools, but they also continue using existing media. In light of the seemingly endless novelty in social media, how can researchers build a theory of social media practice, rather than local theories on a per-site basis? Which insights from one site can we apply to another? Which ones are due to period and cohort effects and which ones relate to the structure of social media generally?

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On June 20, 1969, I was a week or two past my graduation from jr. high (9th grade,) in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Although I am positive I sat with my family in front of the TV, and vaguely remember the first step was broadcast live–in Cleveland–late in the evening.



I wasn’t at the time a hippie, yet this was the second mind blowing event of my life.

Okay. Because ND consists of a group of a certain age, I’m curious about where each of you were, and what the impact was.

Source: several emails from the Netdynam archives. Online generator WittyComics

More via Stephen’s latest show.

Mentioned before, there are cartoon generators on the web. I use cartoons in an experiential process, (with the apt program title Teaching Cartoons,) so I took to these web tools like a kitty to tuna. I’ve posted an old one, actually one of two on my little used stripgenerator blog.

One of my favorite cartoon tools is Build Your Own Meat. The droll cartoonist Max Cannon has reconfigured many of the set of characters he uses for his Red Meat and used them for the simple 3 panel exchange that is the format for BYOM. Unfortunately, automated spammers have taken over the archive. It used to be a laugh riot because it would showcase the last fifty DIY Red Meat.

Visit Max’s web site. He has a pointed message about the newspaper publishing trends and comics.

Cartoon versions of Mullah Nasruddin stories–collected by Idries Shah–are a favorite goal of my efforts.



Here’s one I banged out using appropriated text from an archival exchange (from this year) between two netdynam email list members.



Teaching cartoons @squareONE

This post starts a series aimed to point to a conception of Web 3.0 drawn from the deployment of the so-called semantic web for the purpose of having so-called machines read and interpret the data.

Amongst the inner circle here, it goes without saying that this has already been raised as a concept and direction, and it has been supposed this require text/lexical analytical tools.

For my own part, I assume lots of people and teams are working to build robust analytic tools. Also, it is most interesting to me personally to consider what are the ramifications of Web 3.0 for users who don’t give a whit about what is happening inside these machines; nor care much about the purposes implicit in the human direction prior to (and thus ‘behind,’) machine activities; nor are aware of the long history of efforts to realize effective and efficient data-mining/analysis tools for all sorts of commercial, security, law enforcement, research, purposes.


via Readwriteweb The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information

via Twine: The Web of Identities: Making Machine-Accessible People Data

footnote found here: Cybernetick Inkwell

So what, then, are all the technologies like mashups, XML, Java and the rest, if not 2.0? I actually see them as web 3.0 technologies–not for the casual user or faint of heart. 1.0 was the early web, with its need for knowledge of code and servers; 2.0 is easy entry, democratization, and increased participation; 3.0 is about more complex connections being made.

via Social Computing Journal: Web 3.0: The Web Goes Industrial

Web 2.0 is social: many hands make light work. In stark contrast, Web 3.0 is industrial: the automation of tasks displaces human work. But trite definitions won’t prepare us for change. Whatever you call it, our information economy is in the midst of an Industrial Revolution. And if you don’t place the Web within the frame of industrial manufacturing, you won’t see the real disruptive change coming.

This story reads much like the first Industrial Revolution. Artisans and skilled tradesman used to create everything by hand. Then, through the emergence of a handful of technical innovations, came the age of mass production. It was a profound turning point in human history, affecting every aspect of daily life.

Today, most content is still created by hand, the best of it by highly skilled artisans drawing on centuries of scholarship and experience. Recently, we’ve seen significant innovations in social approaches to content creation. But Web 3.0 industrialization takes content manufacturing to an entirely different level. Instead of users manually creating content, machines automate the heavy lifting. Consumers simply push the buttons and get stuff done. Think spinning wheels versus textile mills.

I note in this excerpt the facile leap from content manufacturing to consumers simply push buttons.

The middle man is not expressed. Hmmm. Is Web 3.0 partly about the industrialization of mediation?

Some argue that Web 3.0 will be a leveling force, and proceed to speak of more democratization. Others make wolf-in-sheep-clothing counter arguments. I would tend to wonder how leveling works in the context of the march of capital, and its aims. (But, then, I’ve read too much Ivan Illich.)

thoughts?