Comments on: Stray Thoughts from the “What is Web 2.0?” Panel Discussion http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/ Blogging the Conference Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Gardner http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-30 Wed, 17 May 2006 20:50:08 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-30 Stray thoughts: 1. I want to acknowledge my sources, because I want to thank them. Even if they're not around to see it. 2. Part of my reputation is formed by the influences and sources I cite. Remember that scene from "The Commitments"? "Who are your influences?" It's one way to find community, to demonstrate those trusted and inspiring experts that have helped you form your own cognition and its products. Stray thoughts:

1. I want to acknowledge my sources, because I want to thank them. Even if they’re not around to see it.

2. Part of my reputation is formed by the influences and sources I cite. Remember that scene from “The Commitments”? “Who are your influences?” It’s one way to find community, to demonstrate those trusted and inspiring experts that have helped you form your own cognition and its products.

]]> by: Lee Carleton http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-27 Wed, 17 May 2006 20:09:13 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-27 Speaking as an economic heretic, I like the idea of the "21st Century networked tribe" because it runs counter to the sad image of the wired but isolated nomad, the independent contractor envisioned by Jacques Attali. But as long as we allow corporate hegemony to define reality (i.e. like the concept of intellectual property) our technotribe will never coalesce and we'll all be viciously competing for ever decreasing corporate crumbs. I'm all for a creator getting credit & reward for creation, but recently copyright law has become a bit dogmatic and fanatical. Even Shakespeare borrowed from others and all of us 'stand upon the shoulders of giants' to whom we owe homage. What I most enjoyed about this conference was the undertone/understanding that collaboration, open sources, etc. are the evolutionary direction to take these technologies - it seems to me that the old, unsustainable paradigms of reptilian competition & excessive acquisitiveness are no longer worthy of our devotion and that playful collaboration holds huge potential for a human future. Speaking as an economic heretic, I like the idea of the “21st Century networked tribe” because it runs counter to the sad image of the wired but isolated nomad, the independent contractor envisioned by Jacques Attali. But as long as we allow corporate hegemony to define reality (i.e. like the concept of intellectual property) our technotribe will never coalesce and we’ll all be viciously competing for ever decreasing corporate crumbs. I’m all for a creator getting credit & reward for creation, but recently copyright law has become a bit dogmatic and fanatical. Even Shakespeare borrowed from others and all of us ’stand upon the shoulders of giants’ to whom we owe homage.

What I most enjoyed about this conference was the undertone/understanding that collaboration, open sources, etc. are the evolutionary direction to take these technologies - it seems to me that the old, unsustainable paradigms of reptilian competition & excessive acquisitiveness are no longer worthy of our devotion and that playful collaboration holds huge potential for a human future.

]]> by: Steve http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-26 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:42:05 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-26 Response to Jeff: I'm not sure that what I mean by "about" vs "doing" maps perfectly onto content versus skills. Response to Jeff: I’m not sure that what I mean by “about” vs “doing” maps perfectly onto content versus skills.

]]> by: Jim http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-25 Wed, 17 May 2006 19:29:15 +0000 http://facultyacademy.org/blog/2006/05/17/stray-thoughts-from-the-what-is-web-20-panel-discussion/#comment-25 An interesting thread that was discussed during the Web 2.0 panel this afternoon was how the boundaries of communication have been re-aligned along the lines of tribal communities. During the same talk, another boundary alluded to was that of intellectual property - one question for me is how do we reconcile the figure of the 21st century networked-tribe with individualized ideas of ownership and copyright? Are these figures antithetical? Or are they already being integrated? An interesting thread that was discussed during the Web 2.0 panel this afternoon was how the boundaries of communication have been re-aligned along the lines of tribal communities. During the same talk, another boundary alluded to was that of intellectual property - one question for me is how do we reconcile the figure of the 21st century networked-tribe with individualized ideas of ownership and copyright? Are these figures antithetical? Or are they already being integrated?

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