Denham's Reflections : On messages, posts & documents
I had this blog post from Denham Grey bookmarked earlier in June but wanted to come back to it. I really enjoyed Denham's reflections about his experiences and preferences in online communication which reflect the role of identity, context and group. These ideas (or experiences) become issues of exploration as we jump media from web based discussions to blogs/comments and wikis.
I'm actually glad I came back later because the comments add to the value of the blog post (something worth mention on its own!)
Denham frames this in terms of genres, a term that has been creeping up in a variety of conversations in my life, so I want to dig into this a bit more.
Bryan Alexander commented: "For one, you're touching on deep ideologies here - individualist vs collective, individual vs social, almost right and left (think libertarian and communitarian)." (Ah, does my bridge theme recur here?)
Today while working on the CoP Technologies report, we talked about the different development paths of centralist vs decentralist collaborative tool development. Again, more echoes.
I keep sensing some patterns, but I can't quite articulate them. But the persistence of these ghost images, or my attention to these issues, is consistent. It is like trying to hold a set of sometimes conflicting continuums within a system -- always seeking a balance point but unable to actually describe the balance point. Does this sound/feel familiar to anyone?
posted by Nancy White at 4:35 PM
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The tension, unease, sense of disquiet you feel is common in emergence and tacit to explicit articulation.
One small practice I use, is to open a wiki (blog?) page, collect links & related concepts, deposit thoughts, invite commentary.
When returning to that page I'm mostly amazed at the depth of my immediate articulation and pleased with the rewards of reflection that allow me to add, annotate, arrange and solidify.
If this articulation is carried out in a 'public' space with open edit rights, (wiki) you benefit from annealing and refactoring.
http://denham.typepad.com/km/2004/01/nurturing_susta.html
Asking for help with articulation is a very fundamental knowledge practice, but we see very little of this due I suspect to: publishing opinions / statements rather than framing questions, a lack of (community) trust, uncertainty around the audience.
Your pattern repeats!!
Denham, as you probably noticed, I keep riffing on this in later posts. I definitely see the complementarity of a wiki. That's on my to do list for later this summer.
I also have to figure out why trackbacks don't work. Obviously I did something wrong. What, however, is NOT obvious to me!
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