it’s the end of term and we’re all feeling the burn of assignments, papers, etc. i just thought i’d remind us all of a famous cat that we all know and love, as the message is very apropos.
Phew, what an amazing and thought provoking day and a half. Some of my personal takeaways from it all:
The relationships between social networking sites and tagging, that social networking sites require us to indicate and articulate ourselves through descriptors…while this kind of articulation isn’t a form of social tagging, it is in fact it’s own type of tagging.
What’s the research agenda for social software? How to leverage media interest and put social software in a format that the public can digest, run against danger discourse that is current thread.
Concepts of ephemeral permanence: that there are serious risks of these instanciations of [...] being kept forever in the digital ether.
What is the nature of the artefacts in digital spaces? How can we save them and what kind of permanence do they have?
What are the relationships between online and offline worlds?
Clearly, more questions than answers….you can see some liveblog notes here. You can also check out more notes at the UNC SSS wiki
so i read this post on lifehack about granularity as a strategy for organization and work and was struck by it just sounded a new term for good planning and organization skills. over time, as i’ve grown through my career, having to take charge of more responsibilities and even having to boss people around, the particular skill of being able to look ahead at the top of hill and break things down into manageable chunks is a real necessity. this kind of granularity as they describe it sounds very “managerial-ese” in some respects…can any MBAers out there tell me if there is unit in your project management class on modularity or granularity?
anyhow, so i think it’s pretty naive to think that one can just bulldoze and muscle their way through any given task. but what’s interesting in this post is how organizational skills are cast specifically in terms of granularity which just seems kind of odd to me. i think concepts of modularity are pretty key in the digital landscape and i have previously argued on several occasions that modularity is one of the new defining characteristics of today’s information culture, however this post made me rethink this postion. modularity, bricolage, “mash-up”, re-mix, collage — all of these terms suggest the same notion, however is there thing different between the analogue and the digital versions? and what about cultural recyling then? how relevant is this concept?
Filed under: information culture
remember a couple of days ago when i was bitching about digital note-taking? well, i found out about this handy dandy little tool and can’t wait to try it out. It’s a note-taking form template that will output it all in PDF, including name, date, class. it’s geared specifically towards class note-taking more specifically, which can be a bit limited, but i am muy stoked to try this out rather than deal with microsoft word. one thing that’s interesting is how the formatting assumes that these notes will eventually be parsed out into print form, at least that’s my interpretation of it based on some of the format features they have, which defeats the whole “saving trees” argument for digital note-taking. but once i give it a whirl i will be back with reviews.
