Comments on: In-Between Places

By: Irene Grumman

Irene Grumman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:05:00 +0000

After the recent shooting at Virginia Tech, a student said that the warning sent by email from administration to all students wasn’t read quickly. He said they should have podcast the warning, or perhaps he said texted the warning. The point was that people responsible for student safety had not kept up with current means of communication.

One of the major social network sites reportedly was the main way students tried to find out who was safe and who was not. They exchanged information and comforted each other. Sure sounds like community to me.

By: Bri

Bri — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:09:00 +0000

This is a very relevant blog. I, too, have been asking myself the same question, i.e., how to connect with people who think and write similarly and who are exploring the same topics and iterests as I. Is there a good search method out there that allows people of similar interests to proactively share their ideas in a good forum? Thx. Bri

By: MS

MS — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:25:00 +0000

I enjoyed your post, but I also have a bone to pick. “Advancement”? You describe changes, but nowhere do I see evidence in your post to support the notion of “advancement”? You seem to be celebrating change for its own sake and then equating that with progress.

Admittedly, I’m coming at this from a different intellectual tradition, history, where we try to avoid teleological thinking.

By: Calvin Spealman

Calvin Spealman — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:24:00 +0000

Our attention gets more and more fragmented as we find new and multiple ways to filter, tune in, and surround with what we are interested in. I am linked in, twittery, blog loving, and none of it seems to fit together just yet.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:21:00 +0000

A fragment of this came up at the Social Software Symposium last December. David Weinberger brought up the differences between blogging and profile systems. Blogging to younger people and people new to these sharing tools seems old school.

As I have been thinking about it since Bloggers were the pioneers staking out homesteads and now that the wild frontier of the Web is getting settled, people are not wanting to build their own homes and rough it by managing their own existence, they like the conveniences of the suburbs and housing tracts.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:09:00 +0000

And, as regards the construction of a personalized cumulative identity, a new challenge for solo sites is to bring together the various, disparate in-betweens. More here: http://tbrown.org/noted/blogging-with-magnolia

Great post, Fred.