Andy's cogitations are always worth hearing about.
In this case. as belw, it is a reminder that we should all be very careful about the subject line we use. For instance, I have chosen to continue the subject line "Yale Global Flow..." even though the thread has morfed a long way from the original post which was (simply) an announcement about a particular conference that just happened to have an interesting theme and an interesting brick-bat about how much of that kind of conference should - or should not - be virtual.
From there it has gone on to "category tagging", etc.
This is of course common - and makes for deadly difficult problems for those who wish to automate. Clearly, what Andy and Taran mention below have nothing to do with the Yale conference itself. It has very little to do with the positives and negatives of virtual conferencing. Yet what they mention is highly interesting and in some ways has a LOT to do with Global Information Flow - or info glut -- or Yale conferences --- BUT -- how would a HUMAN tag Andy's submission? Taran's submission? mine?
At 1:03 PM -0500 2/4/05, Andy Carvin wrote:
Hi Taran,
Actually, this is something I've contemplated on and off for the last couple of years. While the current version of the DDN website doesn't allow category tagging in its blogs, we could always use Movable Type, which we have installed on the CMC website (http://cmc.edc.org). Were you envisioning that this would be done automatically, or would you expect to have a person or persons posting and categorizing each message? I imagine this would take some editorial judgment, and thus be done manually.
Anyway, it's an interesting idea; I'll talk it over with my EDC colleagues.
ac
Taran writes:The new DigitalDivide website is a definite step in the right direction. It's bridging a cultural divide between email, RSS and content management systems in a good way. There's a few things I have ideas on, like creating a 'Digital Divide weblog' off of the list which handles each new topic as an entry, and anything with 'Re:' in it as a response to the entry. Why is that important? One of the main problem of listservs is that people have to know about them. Another aspect is that someone who is busy may not participate on the list, but they might post a comment to a weblog entry. Accessibility.
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