Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: > I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to > use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it > be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop > and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we > ought to go back to that?
The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the internet has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. Adding layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use it are quickly rendered obsolete. A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased clause to the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to comment on his own blog entries. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
