http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/05/17/conversations-and-content-creation/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/05/17/conversations-and-content-creation/#comment-4338 content to be different » Blog Archive » Blogs as Wiki training wheels Wed, 31 May 2006 19:46:41 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1019#comment-4338 [...] I was sitting on the Tube catching up on some of my Blog subscriptions I’d downloaded to my phone before leaving home (what a Geek I am!) when what should I come across but a post from Wesley Fryer spring off a small corner of the Web: “On Paul Caplan’s blog page “working with wikis” he writes: For too long we have tried to force the Internet to behave like traditional media - top down delivery of information. We have tried to harness it for education, publishing and business by seeing it as a cheap publishing medium or at best a way of democratising one-way ‘munication’. Even the latest fad of blogging is just the latest attempt to get the Net to behave itself. But the Net is about co-mmunication, conversation and collaboration. It’s when users work together on creating content that its power begins to appear. Paul is on the right track here, but I think he may be underestimating the power of blogs to enable interactive discourse.” [...] [...] I was sitting on the Tube catching up on some of my Blog subscriptions I’d downloaded to my phone before leaving home (what a Geek I am!) when what should I come across but a post from Wesley Fryer spring off a small corner of the Web: “On Paul Caplan’s blog page “working with wikis” he writes: For too long we have tried to force the Internet to behave like traditional media - top down delivery of information. We have tried to harness it for education, publishing and business by seeing it as a cheap publishing medium or at best a way of democratising one-way ‘munication’. Even the latest fad of blogging is just the latest attempt to get the Net to behave itself. But the Net is about co-mmunication, conversation and collaboration. It’s when users work together on creating content that its power begins to appear. Paul is on the right track here, but I think he may be underestimating the power of blogs to enable interactive discourse.” [...]

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