Communicating in a networked world
I have made another round of revisions to my “social bookmarking” code, which powers the colorful buttons you see beneath this post and in the right-most column (the sidebar) next to BOOKMARK THIS and SUBSCRIBE USING.
The code can be used by WordPress blog operators, and will allow you to use the full range of bookmarklets and subscribelets, or to trim them down to whatever subset you’d like to use.
You can download a ZIp file containing the necessary code from the Red7 web site.
“Web 2.0” as they call it, is “the Web on steroids” — Web sites that do things that just would not be possible without the Internet and technology that’s capable of inter-relating millions of things and millions of people.
One of the things — well many of the things — being done could be classified as “Social Networking.” Although the term is somewhat technical, and refers to the techniques used to graph (or otherwise “visualize”) the ways in which people interact (which can be visualized as networks of interconnected nodes), its less-technical meaning is now being applied to the many things that people do online that help them work or play together. [Read more…]
I don’t know where they came up with the title Dropping Knowledge but here’s an interesting project – getting together 112 world “experts” to sit around a giant table and give their answers to the pressing-questions-facing-our-world submitted by people.
Hard for me to tell whether this is primarily a media event, or is it a serious investigation? Maybe it’s also an “artistic” event in the same sense as The Missing Peace?
I first became aware of it thru YouTube, where Professor Robert Thurman was promoting it. (It’s worth clicking the link and viewing the videos!)
But the site of the Dropping Knowledge project itself is pretty interesting. There’s also a meta-layer here that I’d like you to pay attention to — the increasing use of technology, and particularly networked technology (the Internet) to make this kind of examination of questions and concepts available broadly around the world.
We see this in One, in Belief Net, in the infrastructure-promoting AirJaldi Summit, and hopefully we will also see it in our own online presence (some day soon) at The Dalai Lama Foundation. But, meanwhile, I will keep pointing out examples elsewhere, and hope that they’ll be of interest to you.
Xeni Jardin has written a nice wrap-up article on the Dharamsala wireless mesh in Wired online. This nicely complements the four-part NPR series she did earlier this month (series which includes audio, of course, plus online components at the NPR web site).
Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing et al – also see her entry in Wikipedia) has created a four-part series entitled Hacking the Himalayas that includes lots of coverage of the TibTec wireless network (sponsoring the upcoming AirJali Summit) in Dharamsala. You can find an online version of the series at the NPR web site.
The four segments are:
It’s well worth catching!