I finally got around to reading Clay's A Group Is Its Own Worse Enemy piece. And I'm still not done. But I can already tell he's done a very good job of explaining what's revolutionary about all this stuff (blog, wikis, instant messaging) that many of us take for granted.
It is now possible for every grouping, from a Girl Scout troop on up, to have an online component, and for it to be lightweight and easy to manage. And that's a different kind of thing than the old pattern of "online community." I have this image of two hula hoops, the old two-hula hoop world, where my real life is over here, and my online life is over there, and there wasn't much overlap between them. If the hula hoops are swung together, and everyone who's offline is also online, at least from my point of view, that's a different kind of pattern.
"I never really thought about it that way." I find myself saying that over and over as I read.
Check it out.
Posted by jzawodn at July 21, 2003 03:16 PM
I read that a couple of weeks back. I have to say that it reminds me of a recent experience. :-(
Awesome stuff though!
Cheers,
BDKR
Well, um J... Reminds me of a book called the Closing of the American Mind. Couldnt really follow it.
Well, um J... Reminds me of a book called the Closing of the American Mind. Couldnt really follow it.
This was even better as a talk (given at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference in April of this year). If you ever have a chance to hear Clay speak on _anything_ ... do it!
