I’m hoping that the participants in the “Is Blogging Dead?” panel will aggregate the links to their 3-minute position statements, so that I can add them to this record.
In the meanwhile, this Storify archive of the Computers and Writing tweets from session #e13 hints at what it was like to be on the backchannel during this lively session.
(It looks looks like the iPad/iPhone version of this page is glitchy… click the “View in Desktop” link and scrolling is much easier.)
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[...] Rather than liveblogging, I tried livetweeting (something that is only practical when the venue has free WiFi… hint hint, 4Cs), and found the experience thrilling — especially the massively multiplayer liveblogging of “Is Blogging Dead?” [...]
[...] a number of cool things– about storify, for example. Denniz Jerz (among others, I suspect) put together all the backchannel tweets from that session in a storify space. I might figure out a way to lift this (and/or do something similar myself) and to then set up a [...]
If we use blogging sites like Ning, we can build community. If we ask students to blog about themselves, we are not encouraging conversation. If we want conversation, students need to blog about topics of interest to others in the community and use rhetorical strategies to engage others. The problem is not the tool or platform (blogging), but rather how we use it. If for self-promotion, why should we expect conversation. Instead, use a social constructivist approach. My 2 cents for the day. Agree or disagree.
Of course, when Ning suddenly decides to start charging for content,what happens to the content provided by the community? Archiving Twitter requires nontrivial effort. I don’t see Ning offering much of value that we can’t already offer with clever use of RSS and trackbacks. Your experience with Ning may be different.
Thanks for doing this, Dennis. I’ll try to round up all the statements and get them to you–I’m pretty sure you know where mine is.
One quibble: I’m not sure Twitter was backchannel for this panel, since the audience moved things back and forth between conversation streams. Sidechannel? Hrm
Good point. When the panelists had all blogged their position statements in advance, and about half of those in the room were interacting online, the term “backchannel” fails.
Streamchannel?
Thanks, Bradley Dilger, for posting links to most of the position statements. http://wrecking.org/cbd/2011/05/22/our-blogging-roundtable/
Thanks, Dennis. Good work! My 3 minute statement is on my blog here: http://www.curragh-labs.org/blog/?p=6119
Thanks for this great round-up, Dennis. I added it to my blog post on the Bedford site.
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