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The PowerPoint Anthology of Literature

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If only I could show this to Kate while she was drinking something.... Another classic.

[The Shifted Librarian]
1:07:08 AM    

Klognet FAQ feedback 1..

I asked for comment on the Klognet FAQ. Here's what some of you said.

Stephen Dulaney:

To me klognets are a community of practice that self-organizes using web log technology. Seb has a very nice white paper on how to communicate across disiplines. Creating new words where ones exist today can make the communication less effective. Seb model would say that KlogNets are derived from or an example of a Community of Practice as defined by the social capital gain and has manifestations or children examples like blogrolls and web rings.

Matt Mower:

The questions about life-cycle and success seem to imply a purpose for a klognet.  After all one can only judge success or failure relative to criteria.

In a sense I would say that, so long as a klognet is active and reasonably focused it is successful.

Also is there a formal aspect to membership in a klognet?  Does my reading your post imply we are part of a klognet?

Alison Fish:

Questions I have been asked by coworkers (when I try to get them excited about news aggregation)

Q. Why would you use news aggregation when you could just have each new issue emailed to you?

Q. It sounds like the news aggregator is just like Pointcast. Is that right? (Note: remember pointcast from 1997 or so? It was that newsticker that scrolled across the bottom of your screen.)

Questions I have been asked about weblogs as klogs

Q. How is a weblog different (or better) than visiting the newsgroups?

Q. I keep a living document on my desktop for notes. How is a weblog any bettermore useful? (Same question applied to browser bookmarks, bookmarks folders, etc.)

Weblogs as Klogs:

Q. So how do weblogs enable knowledge sharing?

Q. How do weblogs enable knowledge management if old items just scroll of the screen, replaced by new items?

Q. Weblogs wouldn't work, if you post something important, you forget about it after a month or so.

Tulie Amira:

I just want to see if I get this Klognet thing right. First there was a blog then I use it to share knowledge. Then, my cubicle buddy starts one about the same area of knowledge. So does a colleague from the Netherlands. We have this clique where we read each others blogs and comment about them in our own blogs. Is that a Klognet? If not, what is? It's kinda fuzzy for me. If it is, How do you define the borders of the klognet?

Thanks!

[a klog apart klogs]

[a klog apart]
1:01:15 AM    

Media Democracy Day Strikes Back. Our media system is undergoing a major transformation. Democracy and the public interest are emerging as the losers. Frustrated with sitting on the sidelines, people around the world have begun mobilizing for media democracy. Friday October 18th marks their second coming-out party: Media Democracy Day. [kuro5hin.org]

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Why are people fighting back against the media giants? Because during the past decade, national and international media systems have been commercializing and concentrating at a lightning speed, threatening to destroy participatory, public-oriented media. At the top, AOL Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Viacom, Bertelsmann and a handful of other companies now control the majority of media content in North America. You can switch from CNN to HBO to the Cartoon network, or read from Time Magazine and Sports Illustrated, or watch a movie starring Mel Gibson or Wesley Snipes, or even attend a baseball game -- and never leave the domain of AOL Time Warner.

The effects of this media concentration have been overwhelmingly negative. Editorial diversity suffers, commercial interests suppress news, local-interest content is cut back, cross-promotional advertising is integrated into news content, and public-interest is ignored as governments cut public radio and television funding. Powerful commercial lobby groups are drawing up international media laws and regulations, creating a new system that is even more exclusive and self-serving.

These changes to our media system have far-reaching implications. They fuel pro-war rhetoric, bring advertising into schools and other public domains, encourage excessive consumption, increase cable and Internet user fees, censor or filter out non-mainstream views, support neoliberal, pro-business government policies and further racist, sexist, ethnic and other stereotypes. In many developing countries the media's role as a tool of government and elite interests directly inhibits democracy.
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