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POPSThe trouble with radio... The trouble with radio, the instantness of it - too many politicians make themselves twits. Instantness... I assume he means immediacy? The good thing about Twitter, as opposed to, say, a live interview on the radio, is that you can think about a tweet before you make it, without anyone really noticing. This is true of all the non-voice, non-video means of communication available on the net (unless I am missing something which forces you to write before you are ready?). Indeed, the fact it allows for considered communication is what places it far and away above the old media (including f2f) in my view. And it was nice of David Cameron to illustrate that point so, ahem, eloquently.
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POPSWill search become redundant?
First answer: Wrong (imho) - you need search when you want to be able to stay up to date, rather than relying on outdated resources or single sources of information with vested interests. If you did know where to find eveything? Well, that would be called being omnipotent, and, as a God you probably wouldn't waste time on the internet. Social networks - yes, but which one will you look on? Or will you go through them one by one? Why do market comparison sites work again? Ah yes, convenience. Almost all the other examples are trivially answered with - no, no I wouldn't. I would use my search engine du jour (currently Google) and it would tend to put the same answers as the slow manual way suggested here near the top, but also give me alternative perspectives. Now, I am not saying we should rely on Google (or any other search engine), and I do make use of crowd-sourced search via the lovely people I know and follow on Twitter. But this article seems, to me, to lack under
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POPSFolksonomy/Taxonomy Clay Shirky highlights a difference between a tagging approach and a metadata approach. Metadata on Amazon is contributed by publishers and Amazon themselves - and it seems that it is rather inconsistent, with some editions of books falling into the 'Gay', 'Erotica' types of classification whilst other editions of the same book don't. Customers can tag products with words of thei own choosing. Amazon appears to have decided to remove some classifications, based on the metadata, from their sales ranking mechanism. An email they sent to Mark Probst suggested that this was a policy decision to protect their customer base. Classifications which have been affected include feminist literature, classics, LGBT literature and books on sex and disability. Amazon have apparently subsequently said that this is due to a glitch - a story people on Twitter are not believing. So, Amazon has a problem - de-ranking products based on their classification system is causing annoyance (to put it
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POPSCan't log in via TweetDeck? I have had this problem before, but then I was playing with a hand-rolled client, so I put it down to me being a numptie. On this occasion, though, I only had TweetDeck as an interface between me and Twitter... ...when "Not authorised". Hmm odd. So I tried to log in via the Twitter web site. "Sorry we have blocked your account because of too many failed log in attempts" (or words to that effect). ...Wait a while... and try again. Still blocked, so wait again... aaaand finally, still blocked. Go to raise a ticket, only to find out you have to be logged in, so ever the optimist, tried logging in there instead. Success! But TweetDeck still a no go. OK, so from previous experience I changed my password and tried again. Still no joy. When I got the Tweet below from @TraciKnoppe, I thought I may as well try the same thing again - and this time, it worked. I guess something in Tweetdeck got screwed up, but I can't really imagine what - and I would be surprised if it ke
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POPSLiving through momentum The only reason I think Google may avoid the sort of death described here is that it has financial momentum on its side. It seems to me that it is big enough (and ugly enough?!) to continue despite the challenges. It has the capacity to include social networking aspects in its searches, and already benefits from being able to crawl content provided by networks created under other platforms. Twitter tends to be competing with it for my searches now, although only in those areas where my network is likely to have an interest. I am more likely to continue using Google (or other engines, depending on my whim) for areas outside my community's specific domain of interest.
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POPSConnectivism, and navigating the learning landscape Joe posted this video, and it reminded me of a piece I had written at brains.parslow.net about the learning landscape and ways to help you navigate it. The teacher becomes the guide, who educates you how to educate yourself - how to access and assess learning resources, and gives guidance on the route you should take to get to your learning goals.
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POPSTwitter backchannel for radio show I missed the show, but from the frenzy of comments under the #goodradioclub tag on Twitter, it looks like it was thought provoking (and contentious in places ;-))
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POPSDisruptive tweets and clips I am pleased to have thought of an unexpected use of Amplify. It is a little odd in a way, extracting a Tweet to a clog (clip blog) to allow a conversation to build around it - after all, conversations build around Tweets on Twitter perfectly happily. But one benefit is that you can extract specific tweets, and comment on them, in the context of your blog (a type of narrative). I am hoping there is no great problem with copyright issues. I must confess, though, that I haven't checked whether the tweets I have clipped so far are from people who have protected updates, and this is something where the technology could provide support, offering a BIG FAT warning if I try to clip and publish something the author had protected...
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POPSeurovision tweets I am not a Eurovision fan. But it is good to see a reporter spotting the potential power of tools like Twitter. And noticing that people have different roles in the ad hoc community which formed. I almost wish I had been following the twittering live, now.
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POPSDistributed Self Ahhh good stuff. Thanks to George Siemens who referenced this blog on his. If we are distributing self, and the components of our self are locally similar to components of other selves, can we, or someone else, aggregate new selves from the parts? :-)
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