But when, Omni... when? : )
Sunday 8th January 2006 21:33 : Public
Just before Christmas, Khoi Vinh, the new Design Director for NYTimes.com, and all-round great designer, posted his wishlist for an update to OmniWeb at Macworld, next week.
Well, Omni seem to have burst the bubble of a Macworld release, and unfortunately it’s not that surprising, the last hint I had was a beta ‘within a few months’, and that wasn’t too long ago -- there’s a lot of work involved in moving Omni’s WebCore customisations over to the newer WebKit foundations, as evidenced in Ken Case’s post.
OmniWeb has a loyal following, but the fact that the browser has been ‘stuck’ on older versions of Apple’s open source WebCore, rather than the newer, and much better WebKit, has really started to become a millstone around neck of this otherwise great browser.
I’m really looking forward to the WebKit move, to address the excessive memory leaks and excruciating slow downs that can occur when I’m using OmniWeb, but I must admit that I’m generally throwing a pretty heavy load at this browser; far too many simultaneous windows/tabs, and sometimes I sail a little too close to the winds, in terms of free HD space for paging! Nonetheless newer versions of WebKit have drastically reduced the memory leaks (thanks Apple!), and this should mean good things for the way I use OmniWeb! : )
Having said that OmniWeb’s performance is a lot better now I’ve moved to a G5; the multi-threading and dual processor support have always been theoretical, if not actual benefits of using OmniWeb, so maybe this coupled with a better performing WebKit might give OmniWeb an edge over the competition..?
There are a lot more interesting features that OW could offer, they’ve a history for being a more specialised experience. I’d always seen them as the ‘go-to-guys’ for innovative ideas, but their momentum’s been slowed by the rendering engine transitions, and I have to wonder a little about the browser’s viability in the face of the much less elegant, but actively developed Firefox.
I hate to be a nay-sayer, and on the flip-side, if OW 5.5 can stand up to Safari in performance I fully plan on paying for a license!
It’s just a quandary to look at the open extensibility of Firefox, esp. with the eventual integration of Cocoa widgets and Services support hopefully coming in via Camino.
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Item notes in Spotlight and as tooltips on files
Thursday 24th November 2005 23:51 : Public
 There are a lot of items within the OS that have associated notes/comments etc., that should be accessible within the Finder, or at the very least within the Spotlight results window, where these sorts of details would be most useful, in helping to locate the file(s) you are looking for.
There are custom file properties that could be very valuable as associative and actionable data, that can add a great deal to the management of your work; as one very simple example, I would like to be able to group/collate all files associated with a particular project in a less fragile way that relying on 'tags' that I add to the Spotlight Comments field, but it certainly a start (esp. when coupled with Address Book groups, Mail Smart folders and subscribed folders.)
The most obvious item to be made mush more visible within the search results are a file's Spotlight Comments, to enable users to easily add annotations to files that are actually useful to their workflow.
Having your own notes easily accessible, e.g. as tooltips within the Finder, would be very useful in browsing through files rather than just by their title, often a severly limited means of distinguishing files.
Some other useful file types with notes/comments from within their owner application include:
- Audio files (ID3 tags)
- iCal events and to dos
- Contacts
- Text Edit doc properties
- QuickTime properties
- iWork file properties
- MS Office file properties
NB: I actually wrote this back in July, so much for checking the drafts folder!
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Spotlight sluggishness
Friday 11th November 2005 00:08 : Public
Spotlight's too damned slow, to be the 'revolutionary' feature that it should be. (conveniently forgetting BeOS, of course)
I have a fairly 'decent' machine (for a PowerBook: 1Ghz, 1Gb RAM) and unfortunately having Spotlight start searching as soon as I’ve entered a single character really interferes with the efficacy of this feature, in a significant way.
Often Spotlight will be too busy retrieving results that are wildly irrelevant, to accept keyboard input to fine tune the bloody search to the point that it actually does what it’s supposed to do. This is such a widely known issue, it's hardly worth mentioning, other than to join in the chorus, and perhaps provoke Apple to fix it!
...it’s very annoying. ; )
The feature could be so much more effective if there were just a momentary delay, timed to allow ‘normal’ typing speed.
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TV and the Long Tail
Wednesday 9th November 2005 17:58 : Public
The rapid uptake of DVDs, consumer enthusiasm for owning programmes on DVD -- particularly TV series -- the growth in PayTV, digital recording, PVRs, and podcasting and the Internet in general, have all been pointing in the same directing for some time now; users are exerting more control over the entertainment media they consume, and shifting to more direct relationships with content and service producers.
All of these changes chip away at the traditionally imposed schedules; major films see simultaneous international cinema releases due to the Internet, as opposed to the up-to six month wait previously endured; DVD series sales are now advertised during the free-to-air airing of programmes; and in the context of consumers long calling for PayTV operators to unbundle their channel-based content offerings, it’s easy to see that a la carte, and programme-specific subscription models will be of interest to consumers.
Of course there are still a lot of pieces to fall into place, and the aggregators (e.g. the TV/PayTV channels) still have some time, and some plays of their own, e.g. consumers constructing their own personalised PayTV channel, from a pool of available shows, as one simple option.
There are numerous examples of listener/viewer-supported content struggling in the *broad*cast market, and at this point it seems pretty inevitable that more creative output will be delivered in a podcast-like model, itself just an evolution of the subscription concept, according to current technical limitations.
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ThinkMac Software on CocoaRadio
Wednesday 2nd November 2005 15:42 : Public
 The latest episode of CocoaRadio is now available, and Blake interviews Rory Prior, of ThinkMac Software.
From the show notes:
In this podcast, Rory Prior of ThinkMac Software in the U.K. talks about coming to the Mac from Java among other learning experiences. While his application, NewsMac, was one of the first RSS news readers on the Mac it's only fairly recently that he's joined the ranks of Cocoa developers. He also offers some advice to operating a Mac software business from the U.K. I hope you find his story inspiring and informative.
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iPod, iTunes and open TV
Tuesday 18th October 2005 03:37 : Public
iTunes offers basic support for video podcasts, of course, and Apple have yet to show any sign that they’ll try to prevent ‘free’ (user) file formats on the iPod, so I’m not too concerned about this, from the consumer perspective.
It’s not difficult to pass files to iTunes, have them added to your library, for download to an iPod. Likewise files could be saved from DTV to the user’s Movies folder, to be picked up by any player the user prefers (inc. playing via the network, to a TV, and don’t underestimate FrontRow, which is a really big deal for ‘open TV’/videocasting, when it moves to the Mac mini, at least.)
This would allow the superior DTV viewing experience on the Mac, but also using the iPod as a portable/movable player, plugged into your TV; simply set up a playlist in DTV (or iTunes, or the iPod itself), sync, pop the it on the dock plugged into your TV, and you’re off.
| Imagine the social aspect of creating a playlist of independent productions, podcasts, etc., and sharing with friends at their place, the opportunities for education/presentation/exhibition etc... iPod as guerilla TV. ; ) |
In this context the larger DTV vision is entirely feasible, and explicitly enabled by integration with iPods, PSPs etc. (can’t play favourites when you’re trying to be open, but you do have to go with the simple stuff first.)
As an aside, FWIW I expect that Apple will continue to support free video podcasts, and that broadcast TV via iTunes will eventually offer free content from public broadcasters, along with promo material, etc.
Free, or user content, supports the iPod proposition, rather than the higher-profile paid content, after all paid/downloaded content is still a minority on most iPods, whether ripped from already owned CDs (and now DVDs), or ‘shared’, and the same will hold true for video content.
Like others have said, there will be an ecosystem for both, one that is nowhere near as accessible in the analogue medium, but we will have to avoid complacence, to ensure that open, DIY content remains freely available, visible, and accessible to users.
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Word processors in OS X and visual document management
Tuesday 4th October 2005 03:50 : Public
The state of word processors in OS X is interesting, there are a number of alternatives to the basically ubiquitous Microsoft Word, but none of these really approach the functionality of Word, unlike competitors on Windows. Nonetheless, the alternatives have loyal, if not impatient users, who clamour for viable alternatives to Word, for various reasons, practical or ideological!
My interest is mixed, I’m interested in alternatives to avoid the Microsoft tax, and spreading the wealth around a little more, but more for diversity and competition in features, priorities, and ideas, especially in the human interface, the stuff I really get a kick out of! : )
Word, aside from some performance concerns, and still being quite complex software, has a pretty decent UI, though with few radical offerings in serious aide of usability, although I don’t want to fault their ideas too much, like the interesting Note Taking view, with synchronised audio recording; undeniably user centric in it’s intention (helping in meetings) though I’m curious about it’s usage, considering social and business etiquette around recording?
visual document management
So, what of this visual document management in the title? Below is an unreasonably long post I made recently to the Nisus Writer Express user forums, with various brainstorms on making The Perfect App(tm), and toward the bottom, you’ll see n-up page view.
Nisus Writer Express forum post > 3.0 Feature Request List
Lots of good suggestions here. I particularly support boosting the Document Manager, I’d like this to be a UI for Templates, offer search (SearchKit), viewing meta-data (Spotlight), and sharing Docs and Templates (Bonjour.)
Personally, I’d like a full screen mode (I sometimes use a Wacom for marking/highlights, short notes, and inserting ‘scribbles’), and a full screen mode can be conducive to focussing on the task at hand... but its a nice to have, ‘sometime’.
I’d also agree with JBL:
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Improved macros (mininmally some way of incorporating the find/replace functionality into a macro)
...and ceffe:
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I’m very much in favour of a comment/notation feature and think that Jers Novel Writer has the nicest I’ve seen (it allows putting comments in the margin).
...or visually as expand/collapse Sticky Notes (i.e. on a layer above the text) if you want to be fancy about it, but this may also have the advantage of being able to be toggled on/off, and would avoid reflow.
If, as according to Jerzy Lewak, on Tech Night Owl, the next version (v3.0?) will be around six months, I’ll cut back some of my requests to might be feasible in that time!
1. Document navigation
Navigate via the document’s style structure - could presented as a sub-menu of style declarations in the View menu and on the toolbar (but could grow too long for a menu), in a new Drawer palette (e.g. the Utility drawer in OmniOutliner), or a new side-bar view (similar to the outline sidebar in Mellel.)
2. State Retention
In all aspects of the app save the current user state so that I can quit and reopen the app in the same state (inc. open docs and the cursor position, undo/redo history, search history, window/toolbar/drawer/palette states.) Better yet if this state info could be saved as Workspaces, to allow clustering of documents, palettes etc. If not to that extent, then at the very least, remembering open documents.
IMHO This feature is vastly under-used in modern apps (Omni-apps, NetNewsWire, others?) and can have a surprisingly big impact on the user experience, IMHO.
As for longer-term wishes, I’d love to see:
n-up page view
Would be useful to view more than a single page, such as a 2-up view (2 pages side-by-side) for larger monitors, or for overviews when working with distinctive documents, e.g. images/figures, tables, columns etc.
I’d settle for 2-up, as a start.
Ideally, there’d be page thumbnails, maybe in a Pages-like sidebar, but IMHO that’s better suited to the doc navigation/outline feature above, and that a thumbnail view (built on the n-up support?) would be best presented via an iPhoto/PowerPoint-like view (technically too much for the app, in it’s currently structure?)
It would be great to present this as another view option (to retain the current Page View.) This extra view tab could have pre-sets like the pre-set zoom levels in the Page View, such as 2-up, 4-up, and/or the whizzy dynamic zoom you get in iPhoto, which may seem like eye-candy (and would be a talking point), but would have genuine functional and usability justifications.
I don’t envision this as an editing interface in anything below 2-up, but rather a way to navigate longer docs to find a particular page visually, with a double-click to open a page in the preferred view Page/Draft or the optional 2-up mode.
This thumbnail view could also help visualise multi-page sections, by grouping or differentiation (colour-coding, labels etc.), and would allow moving ‘self-contained’ sections (i.e. sections starting and ending on their own pages,) and thereby rearrange the document structure, which would be reflected in the document outline, in TOC, indexes etc.
The concept might be further extended as a visual interface to linking multiple documents (i.e. drag in documents from Finder or Doc Manager, change order, open etc.), for large doc/book managing, as some have suggested (esp. interesting if said separate document sections were network accessible, and being edited by different users!)
Maybe it’s ambitious, but it would make a fantastic word processor!
...this is at least possible with the current tech in the OS. : )
At least that’s what I reckon. ; )
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HTMLstamps and HTMLstamps Plus for OmniGraffle
Wednesday 28th September 2005 11:32 : Public
Nathan Steiner and Arturo Rodriguez, of the stylish TWINSPARC, created the HTMLstamp Illustrator symbols that proved rather popular with web designers around the traps; now I’ve made these into Stencils for one of my favourite ‘independent’ apps, OmniGraffle… and added a few things of my own. : )
Both files include the original set of tags, and my customised version, creatively named ‘HTMLstamps Plus’, where I’ve added stamps for DIVs, a CLASS stamp that you can double-click, to enter the name of your style classes, and a connecting line, if you want to make your declarations clearer (handy if you’re passing the design off.)
All stamps in the ‘Plus’ Stencils also include tool-tips that will appear when you hover your mouse over them, both in the Stencils window, and in your drawing (Toggle View > Notes to show/hide the note badges,) and a link to the W3C definition (for HTML) and to Macromedia and Mike Davidson’s sIFR page for the Flash tags.
To follow the link to see a definition of each tag, either use the ‘Action’ tool (the ‘pointing-finger’ cursor), or click on the Action badge, if you have that shown, View > Actions.)
The files are simple to install, just follow the readme, or:
 - Download the set you want (with or without sIFR tags):
HTMLstamps_OG.zip (5.4Mb)
The original set, including the sIFR tags. I haven’t redrawn the sIFR tags yet, these are the shapes imported from Illustrator, hence the larger size.
HTMLstamps_noSIFR_OG.zip (788Kb)
Not all designers are using sIFR, and removing them made for a lighter download.
- Place the appropriate file into your ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils/ folder (~ points your Home directory.
- Open OmniGraffle, under the “Stencils” menu, select the stencil(s) you installed in the previous step, to open it in the Stencil palette.
- Now simply drag the Stamps onto your canvas as you see fit, you might find it helpful to drag them onto their own layer so you can easily show and hide them.
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Finder oversight: Option-click toolbar Info button to Show Inspector
Saturday 17th September 2005 13:51 : Public
Unlike all of the other methods for getting info on a file, the Info button in the Finder toolbar does not toggle to show the multiple file Inspector when the Option key is held down.
With Option held down, the File menu Get Info item, the contextual menu, and the toolbar ‘gear’ menu all change to Show Inspector.
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Improving Nisus Writer Express
Sunday 4th September 2005 16:08 : Public
A few simple notes on 'improving' NisusWriter Express.
Macros
It might be worth changing the name of that menu to ‘Automate’ for clarity for novice users.
Heirarchical Menus
Sub-menus in the Macro menu would (obvioulsy) be a useful way to arrange the Macro menu, particularly if you supported aliases (or Symlinks?) to give ‘power users’ more control (so that you could list a macro in multiuple folders, if applicable.)
New AppleScript equivalent to the New Perl Script option
This command could open the AppleScript Editor, along with the NWX dictionary, to make it easier to create scripts. Even better would be if you could control the default save location of the resulting script, but I doubt that would be possible.
Creating a community around Macros
I haven’t seen a lot of activity around the Macro system, so wondered if building-in links to a Nisus-hosted Macro repository would help. At a basic level you would just need a ‘Get Macros’ link to the repository.
Extending the Macro system to provide more info
Ideally, the Macro system would be more useful if there were some defacto standards were adopted to provide versioning and descriptions of the scripts. These details could then be used by users to check that they have the latest versions, and to get descriptions of what a script does.
The repository idea would be even more useful if such a repository were to offer updating of installed Macros. With the version details mentioned above, you could automatically check the installed scripts against those in the repository.
Assistance in creating scripts
It would be particularly useful if NWX could assist in the creation of Scripts, if simply by creating documents with the requisit opening syntax etc. When creating an AppleScript, you might be asked if you want to start with a selection within NWX, or if you plan on creating a dialogue-based, or drop-applet, and then insert the appropriate syntax, and pointers/tips as comments in the script window.
Automator Support
Might Automator present itself as a simplified GUI for the more novice scripter? With most of the basics covered in AppleScript (esp. via the Menu selection and Macro running), novices could do quite a lot with NWX via the simplified Automator interface, and this could also prove to be very useful to power users, who might opt for NWX to integrate a word processor into their Workflows.
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Spotlight attributes in the Finder
Saturday 3rd September 2005 22:16 : Public
With the increasing volume of Spotlight-accessible file attributes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make effective use of this metadata, due to limitations in the Finder’s method for adding these custom attributes to it’s search criteria.
It is difficult to find meta-data associated with particular applications of file types with the simple search currently provided.
If the Custom Attribute list indicated which application the attribute relates to, it would be easily to both view the list by application, and filter to particular applications, if necessary.
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Open 'Where from' location from Finder Info windows
Saturday 16th July 2005 17:27 : Public
Now that files show the location that they were downloaded from, it would be handy to be able to act on that info, to at least be able to select that URL and then use System Service, or just a copy and paste into a web browser.
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iTunes also supports video blogging
Wednesday 29th June 2005 15:29 : Public
iTunes supports QuickTime for the iTMS, so that you can get your bonus video clip, or liner notes (PDF), and now it supports ‘Podcasting’, aka RSS enclosures... and that equals video blogging.
Gotta love the loosely coupled aspects of the OS and frameworks that enable this stuff, kinda like QuickTime supporting Quartz Composer files, such that any app that supports QuickTime does too... could make for some pretty spectacular Dashboard widgets!
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The 'trick' to iTunes podcast subscriptions
Wednesday 29th June 2005 01:42 : Public
Well, the first annoyance in iTunes podcasting comes to light very soon for the new user; after subscribing to a feed, it’s not particularly clear how to get back to where you were in the podcast directory... at least not to those who don’t use the iTMS very much.
In particular, new users to iTunes podcasting, (everyone, at the moment!) are likely to come up against this annoyance: when checking out the new feature, you’ll probably start by selecting the new special ‘Podcast’ item in the iTunes sidebar. From there you’ll see the ‘Podcast Directory’ link at the bottom of the iTunes window. When you subscribe to a feed, you’re taken back to the ‘Podcasts’ section, but how do you go back to the previous ‘page’, if you will, when there’s no back button?
The perhaps most ‘Podcast’-relevant interface element you see is that familiar ‘Podcast Directory’ link that you just clicked, unfortunately that takes you back to the directory home page... bzzzzt, wrong.
Matthew at mBlog was quick to point out this problem too, but there is a solution.
The real answer is that if you click on the Music Store link in the sidebar, you’re always taken back to the last screen/page you visited, and the Podcast Directory is a sub-set of the iTMS, ergo clicking the Music Store icon, after you’ve subscribed does the job, you’ll be back where you just left off in the Podcast Directory, including the Browse section (i.e. the column view for browsing all categories.)
Now, maybe it’s just those who don’t use the iTMS, like say because it’s not available in your country(!), but the Podcast support in iTunes is clearly built on an assumed familiarity with iTMS behaviours, which is understandable, but not particularly defensible...
The simple fact is that the iTMS was a convenient framework to build the Podcast Directory on, and that’s a pretty sound decision, but the onus was really on Apple to properly customise the behaviours and paradigms in the client, to properly support the new feature.
So it was quick, and reasonable, to build atop the iTMS, but that otherwise good decision is the reason for the otherwise illogical interface for navigating between the content and your new subscriptions, made worse by the fact that the Podcast section in the sidebar, at the same level as the iTMS contradicts the fact that the PD is actually a child of the iTMS, not a peer, and the alternative access to the PD from the Podcasts section belies the iTMS link.
Please sir, can I have some more?What else should they have customised to improve the experience? I’d hoped that the iTMS album info interface would work well for podcasts, but as feared, that maps to the feed level, and most feeds have little info, and the individual item details are either available via the too short description column, or the badly tacked on info window... and how do you easily link to the feed’s web site...? The URL is ‘hidden’ in that tacked on info window, and not even a ‘clickable’ link, or selectable text, you can only read it!
&%# Apple, what are you doing!? People may actually want to do something with that information, not have to bloody retype the URL in a browser!
My other disappointment would be that there doesn’t seem to have been any attempt to integrate with feeds that users may already have. I’ve got a lot of podcast content on my iPod, I’ve got the Genre, bunches of Smart Albums to arrange by date, and listened status, and ratings to remember good shows etc., and this is completely out of the bounds of the new podcasting support.
BTW - try reporting that problem for iTunes… you’ll be sent to their music request page, and then in circles, trying to give feedback on the app, back to the music page. I have the feeling that this little web site issue with piss off a few people in the next few days and weeks!
There, that was easy. : )
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Add Spotlight comments when saving
Monday 13th June 2005 02:34 : Public
Sometimes I’d really like to be able to add Spotlight comments to a file, as I’m saving it, as this is the point that I’m most actively thinking about the file.
This could be entirely optional, a toggle option in the save dialogue, similar to how you can expand the save dialogue to show its full options.
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Blogtalk: Hard to keep up!
Saturday 21st May 2005 15:44 : Public
So many intriguing thoughts, so little time....
I’d love to be capturing more of my thoughts, an commenting as the conference proceeds, but I kind of want to listen at the same time! : )
Still, I must follow up...
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Blogtalk: Mark Bernstein
Saturday 21st May 2005 15:06 : Public
Mark Bernstein of Tinderbox-fame, gave an engaging, and beautiful, presentation this morning, one that incited a bit of discussion, and fire.
More: Blogtalk site comments| Mark Bernstein| Michael Specht | Adrian Miles
I was actually one of those who piped up on the issue, although as Mark says his ‘anti-comments’ statement was just one small aspect of his much larger, and wider ranging presentation -- even as the comments were coming, I was worried that this aspect would hijack the discussion, and unfortunately it did... thereby proving his point! : )
...but of course, that was largely because of the limitations of the dialogue itself, the fact that there was such a limited time for questions.
Definitely more pondering is warranted, there was depth to there to be mined.
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Blogtalk: On edu-blogs...
Saturday 21st May 2005 13:39 : Public
At the end of the day, things really livened up when the academics/teachers in the room got into a rather passionate debate about the use of blogs in education.
The passion centred around whether or not student blogs should be visible to the world, or limited to the institution, or even smaller sub-groups. A big issues, that bears some thinking about...
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Blogtalk: Rebecca jumps straight to the high-level
Friday 20th May 2005 15:03 : Public
Rebecca Blood goes straight to the high-level issues at today’s Blogtalk Downunder -- but I suspect that she ‘lost’ some of the audience, more’s the pity -- taking the high-road, and adding that broader perspective was necessary, and entirely appropriate to the event.
I was really happy to hear Rebecca taking more of a big picture perspective on this thing we call ‘blogging’, the growing macro-trend of mass amateurisation, drawing parallels with Open Source, which itself is turning into a meme to fit all occasions; Citizen Journalism, Participatory Media, and Amateur Science, sharing some great anecdotes along the way.
Perhaps this isn’t what the audience expected of Rebecca, considering some of the more practical aspects of her blogging books etc., perhaps some thought it was a bit hyperbolic to be talking about seismic shifts in society and be relating that back to what some still consider ‘just an online diary’… or perhaps I’m wrong, and everyone loved it!
In taking the long-view, Rebecca invites us to contemplate the possibilities of a world where the (currently online) population has unprecedented access to information, to collaboration, and the ability to have an impact far beyond any geographical ‘limitations’, and that’s a future that excites me no end, but the key, of course, is to not lose sight of potential pitfalls, to not view the network, blogging, etc. as some rarified, high-preiest’s temple, or the magic pixie dust for every occasion, but as what they are, tools and expressions of our basic needs for communication, and community -- these eventual changes will come, not because of ‘blogging’, that’s just one of many first steps along this long path.
Thanks Rebecca.
More Reading: Too much to mention really. Check out these Google searches:
Architecture of Participation
Mass Amateurisation
Citizen Journalism
Participatory Media
Amateur Science
Also: blogtalkdownunder
Doc Searls’ DIY IT, Make Magazine, Jonathan Swartz and Brewster Kahle (among many others!) on IT Conversations, etc.
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Adaptive Path (and I) in Sydney
Sunday 15th May 2005 00:32 : Public
Music : Emit/Collect (Rennie Pilgrem's Agatha Stomp) / Zer0 / Breaks 03 The Album
Looking forward to the Different/Adaptive Path, Elements of User Experience workshop.
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