Groove spaces that upload info to your blog, or track blog info in the groove space - not sure quite what is going on.

Groove to Radio. This is a test of Tim Knip's Groove interop tool for Radio, which if successful will post this item I am writing in a Groove discussion tool to my blog. As Tim noted a few days ago, the identity URL has migrated into the SOAP header. I'm not sure if this version of grooveInterop.root accounts for that or not. Let's see... ... [Jon's Radio]

comment [] 69 5:06:10 PM G!.

Technology alters the paradigm of collaboration/communication

Sociology of the Mobile Phone.

The most general function of cell phones is to lessen the degree to which social relationships and social systems are anchored in space, and they increase the degree to which they are anchored in particular persons.

From the point of view of individual users, the cell phone provides opportunities:

1. Increase # of potential partners, independent of time and location or movement (time zone limitations)
2. Increase involvement with remote partners, decrease involvement with local partners
3. Improve decisionmaking by involving third parties

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1. to enlarge the number of potential communication partners available at any specific place and moment
2. to distance oneself from current collocal interaction fields by directing attention to remote partners
3. to expand the peripheral layers of social relationships by cultivating weak ties to partners one is not ready to meet
4. to shield oneself from new and unpredictable contacts by signaling unavailability and by maintaining more frequent interaction with familiar partners (e.g. friends and kin)
5. to maintain contact with any other individuals (or organizations) irrespective of movement and changing spatial locations
6. to combine divergent roles which would otherwise necessitate one's presence at different places at the same time
7. to switch rapidly between highly different (and usually segregated) roles and situational contexts, so that there is more discretion as to how they should be separated or combined
8. to take over “boundary roles” in any social system: e.g. in order to get information about the external environment or to participate in processes of external interaction and adaptation
9. to fill empty waiting periods with vicarious remote interactions
10. to reduce the reliance on one’s own inner judgment by asking others for advice
11. to occupy highly diffuse roles which demand involvement at any hour of the day (e.g. care-giving functions etc.); or “standby” roles which demand permanent readiness (e.g. in emergencies)
12. to live more "spontaneously": without strictly scheduled agendas, because meeting hours can easily be rearranged.

From the point of view of social systems the cell phone will:

1. decrease the positive impact of spatial proximity on social interaction and integration
2. increase the functional viability of very small groups and single individuals, because they have increased opportunities to mobilize additional resources from outside actors, or to include additional remote members on an ad hoc basis when needed
3. ease the penetration of bilateral interpersonal microsystems into multilateral groupings, formalized social collectivities as well as public spheres.
4. increase the capacity of organizations to fully integrate spatially remote and moving subunits and to relate to customers whose location is changing and not known
5. increase the functional capacity of collectivities and organizations on the move: e.g. military or police units, ambulances, refugee groups etc.
6. privilege collectivities constituted on the basis of particular members rather than particular places or territories (e.g. families and ethnic groupings rather than cities, parishes or schools)
7. encourage emphasis on highly segregated bilateral relationships - while larger multilateral allegiances are losing ground
8. facilitate swiftly constituted, ad hoc gatherings with highly variable composition, so that social system structures can be flexibly adapted to rapidly changing situational conditions
9. facilitate the shift from rigidly programmed bureaucratic organizations to "adhocracies" where timetables and cooperation patterns are constantly reshaped
10. lessen the need for central “communication hubs” within groups and organizations because each member can directly receive (and send out) his/her own calls
11. minimize the “spill over” of communications to unintended third parties because messages can be precisely targeted to intended individual receivers
12. increase intersystemic permeabilities, blendings and interpenetrations, while lowering the capacities to keep such contacts under centralized and regularized control.

comment [] 68 12:14:00 PM G!.

This caught my imagination - as an enhanced memory use of technology.  Mobile Blogging can capture reality and store it for later reference.  Further, it can create a web of expanding links on the core idea.  One of the key problems I find in blogging is having the time to capture stuff to the blog, and later having the time to retrieve it!  Is it just proliferation of bad content?  Or is could moblogging capture the good and the bad and allow search agents etc to be used later when it is relevant...

I notice that my handy digital photos are rather dull.  Snaps of family or office settings - not much on color or content that is either attractive or interesting - just recordings of life.  I suppose that's the nature of reality.

moblogging meets kblogging. More opportunistic. Like your mobile phone, you'll have image capture with you 24/7. Snap as opportunity strikes.
More ubiquitous. Low cost means everyone will have moblogging devices. Your workforce. Your customers. Your consultants and advisors. Your investors.
More real-time. Digital flow-through means that events are captured and published in near-realtime.
More collaborative. The ability to swarm on an important or interesting event lets you form a rashomon and blind men with elephant composite view.
More organized. The 2004 generation of moblogging gadgets will have the royal trio of ID, date/time, and location. Thumbing a few keywords for topical context feeds search engines. [Smart Mobs]

comment [] 67 12:05:03 PM G!.