Takes on Storytelling
Nice overview of various takes on the importance of storytelling here. Bruner, Ong, Seeley Brown, Baudrillard, Jung, and more. Looks like a promotional site for a book on storytelling in organizations.
Where’s the humanity in social software?
As a few others have pointed out, the current excitement over “social software” is somewhat odd because this group is hardly the first to discover many of the issues they’re tackling. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but I see little evidence that they’re building on the work of fields such as computer-supported cooperative work, [...]
More interest than available time
3600 Research Essays about the Net. It’s like stringing together all your favorite keywords and then slapping them on one page. Also from the same site: 750 Internet Researchers and 1800 Net Art Links. From Red Rock Eater Digest
Smart Weblogs
Howard Rheingold has started a weblog to complement his forthcoming book “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution”. Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive.
Will Wright
I enjoyed reading this interview with Will Wright, the guy behind all the Sims games. It deals with philosophy of game design, mining the rich data gathered on “The Sims”, modeling complex systems, and more. Quite good. from Black Belt Jones
First Monday – November
New First Monday is out (wait – it’s not the first Monday of the month yet!). Two articles on education that both look interesting, including an article that looks at MIT’s Open CourseWare Initiative. Before I became such a user-experience dork, and after I was a biology and music dork, I had a brief career [...]
Notes and Recommendations (from Phil Agre)
Set of unrelated mini-essays/opinions on cell phone use and innovative service models, rumormongering and amplification on the web, musicians and profit in the age of p2p, and three ways to look at institutions. They’re all worth reading, but skip to the last if you’re going to read just one. Here’s a summary: Institutional discourses are [...]
How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
Good comments from Phil Agre on participating and contributing within a network of fellow professionals.