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It has definitely gone viral. --Doug On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Robert Cordingley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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