Monthly Archives: December 2005

distributed knowledge while instant messaging

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Michael

My friend Keith and I were just talking at Interzone, and he mentioned my previous post on distributed knowledge, and he brought up how when we use instant message clients (e.g., AIM), when someone else mentions something that we don’t … Continue reading →

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on what a “knowledge log” should be

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Michael

After writing my seminar paper for English 595 (on k-logs), I am left reflecting on what a knowledge log should be. A lot of my posts were simply remediating note cards, serving as a place to keep quotes and paraphrases … Continue reading →

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when blogs go down in the classroom

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Michael

I just came across this post on Konrad Glogowski’s Blog of Proximal Development, in which he discusses how the blogware (blogging software) for the composition course he teaches crashed, and how he had to replace it. A few excerpts… On … Continue reading →

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sharing your brain: making your hard drive into a wiki

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Michael

Now playing: “On Being Radical” by Stephen Downes. From Sharing Your Brain: Making Your Hard Drive into a Wiki (via Weblogg-ed). I haven’t had time to read it yet, because I’m writing a paper, but this looks interesting: When technologies … Continue reading →

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Check out Bazerman book sometime

Posted on December 6, 2005 by Michael

I think this might be interesting to read: Bazerman, C. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

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