I do agree with what you have described. In 1996 I was actually starting a dot com with an engineer and computer scientist. I was the designer, interface creator and resource/info person. I didn't do that start-up, instead I decided to become a teacher educator at the University of South Florida, which is in Tampa.
At USF I was lucky that the new COE (College of ED) has just been upgraded with state-of-the-art technology including a video editing room. I ended up making a short video on the lack of faculty use of that technology. I was the only faculty member who took full advantage of it. It also had Scott Seifreit, and Ryan, both geniuses.
Now, 12 years after leaving Los Angeles, I am here in North Central Florida, in probably what is the closest thing to a wasteland possible. Sorry. Budget issues and general backwardness have made this environment difficult. I did open my own nonprofit technology (gaming at night, school during the day) center called Chimera Center. but is had to be closed. I was close to some DOE funding and MacArthur Digital Arts and Learning Funding, but, alas, none came.
What I want to say in this post is that Web 2.0 technologies and open source have revolutionized the internet and now with Twitter everyone is crawling out of the woodwork. It is freakin' exciting.
I believe blogging is dead. I believe miniblogging (although I do not think that is the correct term) is going to replace blogging. Who wants to leave twitter apps to read a long blog? No one. Bloggers have become somewhat entranced with themselves as well, leaving those of us, like me, who are not just geeky people, but scholarly geeky people, out in the cold.
With Twitter I see myself as being slightly ahead of the pack in what will be called the Web 3.0 technologies.
Moodle sucks. eblogger sucks. MySpace sucks. So many things suck. I love Facebook or at least I did love Facebook, because is was pretty and easy and fun. Myspace is ugly and crass.
Moodle looks like Blackboard! yucky.
I know what interfaces will work and how to design them for the user. I am interested in user friendly elearning environments that do for learning what Facebook has done for finding old friends and networking with new ones.
Anyway, on and on I go and where I will stop no one knows.
Ever since Obama became president and whole new world has opened up on the internet. Everyone is rushing to speak his or her mind. We want to make this happen before there is a price tag. Right now it is free.
I am so glad you followed me tonight. It is exciting to know that after all these years (I started with PacMan on a Commodore 64) I am finally getting connected to the right people in technology. I absolutely love Twitter. Now, it just needs to stay free and I just need to figure out how one makes money in Web 3.0.
scottshapiro
· 1 year ago
Thanks so much for the thoughtful comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the post.
I agree that Twitter is changing everything and I'm confident they'll hit monetization in some fashion by summer.
Thank you for looking at it during your busy day. I had fun writing it. Have yet to get any tangible feedback, but I guess I have to be patient and maybe just go to bed. lol
I love your masthead on this website and what it says. Very affirming and at the same time calming and beautiful.
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At USF I was lucky that the new COE (College of ED) has just been upgraded with state-of-the-art technology including a video editing room. I ended up making a short video on the lack of faculty use of that technology. I was the only faculty member who took full advantage of it. It also had Scott Seifreit, and Ryan, both geniuses.
Now, 12 years after leaving Los Angeles, I am here in North Central Florida, in probably what is the closest thing to a wasteland possible. Sorry. Budget issues and general backwardness have made this environment difficult. I did open my own nonprofit technology (gaming at night, school during the day) center called Chimera Center. but is had to be closed. I was close to some DOE funding and MacArthur Digital Arts and Learning Funding, but, alas, none came.
What I want to say in this post is that Web 2.0 technologies and open source have revolutionized the internet and now with Twitter everyone is crawling out of the woodwork. It is freakin' exciting.
I believe blogging is dead. I believe miniblogging (although I do not think that is the correct term) is going to replace blogging. Who wants to leave twitter apps to read a long blog? No one. Bloggers have become somewhat entranced with themselves as well, leaving those of us, like me, who are not just geeky people, but scholarly geeky people, out in the cold.
With Twitter I see myself as being slightly ahead of the pack in what will be called the Web 3.0 technologies.
Moodle sucks. eblogger sucks. MySpace sucks. So many things suck. I love Facebook or at least I did love Facebook, because is was pretty and easy and fun. Myspace is ugly and crass.
Moodle looks like Blackboard! yucky.
I know what interfaces will work and how to design them for the user. I am interested in user friendly elearning environments that do for learning what Facebook has done for finding old friends and networking with new ones.
Anyway, on and on I go and where I will stop no one knows.
Ever since Obama became president and whole new world has opened up on the internet. Everyone is rushing to speak his or her mind. We want to make this happen before there is a price tag. Right now it is free.
I am so glad you followed me tonight. It is exciting to know that after all these years (I started with PacMan on a Commodore 64) I am finally getting connected to the right people in technology. I absolutely love Twitter. Now, it just needs to stay free and I just need to figure out how one makes money in Web 3.0.
I agree that Twitter is changing everything and I'm confident they'll hit monetization in some fashion by summer.
Thanks. I stayed up and wrote this article about Twitter.
http://techgurlz.wordpress.com and
http://twitwall.com/view/?who=profchandler#e020...
Same thing. Have a good one.
Sage
I love your masthead on this website and what it says. Very affirming and at the same time calming and beautiful.
peace