Comments on: Building Bridges

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:25:24 +0000

Andy, I’m glad you are still thinking about this — I’m mildly obsessed by it, but wanted to drop one more stone into the pond (I think the damselfly photos inspired the metaphor).

There are times when we need the bridge. There are other times when the network itself is a very sufficient and effective bridge. I think the distinction is important and over the years the evolution of web patterns demonstrates we can use it in many ways.

Still trying to get my head around this.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:44:57 +0000

So it’s revisiting the wheel at a higher level then, perhaps - negating the negation in hegelspeak. I agree that blogs seem to enable something new to happen, in just a few months this one seems to have become central to my online presence. ( How do I export everything to make a backup by the way? the MT help didn’t )
One thing I’ve just learned is that I need to make a side bar index which points to entries which have ongoing conversations happening. That should help overcome what I perceived as a problem with blog discussions ending prematurely as new entries appear and the occasional comment on old entries getting overlooked.
Love the Ultralab South Wiki by the way, can we have one oop north for Ultraversity please?

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:32:31 +0000

In a way I guess we are re-inventing wheels, but blogs are very different from what went before. The classic but cheesy Home Pages with pictures of peoples’ hobbies, families and cats. And working in a wiki is a very different process to emailing a Word document around… And with newsreaders of old (usenet), the quantity of news was fixed… whereas with todays (RSS) newsreaders, you can weave together a personal newspaper…. Oh an because FTP is just a file server, todays web-based file libraries can have meta data associated with files, and multiple presentations and routes to information.

So whilst a lot of todays technologies seem familiar, they are very very different….

And that’s before we get onto the one thing that was missing way back when… Google…