I agree presenting specific stories and examples at the Complex of /How
I use the web /could be very interesting. Presenters can declare their
topic ahead of time so that advanced/cognoscenti users can pick and
choose. Perhaps a series of "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Internet/Facebook/Blogging/Wikis/<topic>" might be a nice break from
the more techy sessions. Any volunteers?
Nick: you are not alone - FWIW, I don't read (or write) blogs either.
Robert C
glen e. p. ropella wrote:
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.
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