This is fascinating, to me at least. Marc (are we allowed to call him Marca?) came late to blogging, but he's clearly making up for lost time and talking to the right people.
But what I noted in his recent post was how much his view of the larger web (via Sifry) matches exactly what we've been talking about over here vis-a-vis the Inverted LMS (or really the Inverted CMS idea applied to education). Marc writes:
The first time I met Dave Sifry, over three years ago, he told me that conversations on the Internet would eventually all revolve around every individual having a blog, each individual posting her own thoughts on her own blog, and blogs cross-linking through mechanisms like trackbacks and blog search engines (such as Dave's Technorati).
The advantage of this new world, said Dave, is that each individual (anonymous or not) would be publicly responsible for their own content and in charge of their own space -- substantially reducing the risk of spam and trolls -- and the communication would flow through the links. There would still be the risk of link spam, but at least this new world would make people more responsible for their own content, and that would tend to uplevel the discourse.
I think Dave is exactly right, and the implications of this new world are very interesting.
The rest of the post is worth reading too -- it's more of a head-nodder, mostly reiterating stuff that ALL bloggers learn very quickly, but it's great to have it all in one place. And it has the neat advantage that you can send it to the non-believers with a note that says "From the guy that co-founded Netscape."
I'm saying, it doesn't hurt.
0 comments
Post a Comment