Toki Facebookiin ja Jaikuunkin tekstiä mahtuu, mutta niiden löytäminen jälkikäteen on minusta vähän hankalaa. Blogiympäristön päiväkirjamaisempi ote on ehkä jotenkin turvallisemman ja pitkäaikaissäilytettävämmän tuntuista...

Kaikenlaista vanhaa pohdintaa vuodesta 2004 alkaen löytyy Mótimen puolelta, ja tässä kohtaa on pakko myöntää, etten yhtään muista miksi päädyin aikanaan bloggaamaan juuri Mótimeen - ehkä luin jonkun käytettävyysarvion ja pidin sitä sopivimpana sen aikaisiin tarpeisiini, mitä ikinä lie olleetkaan.

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Mindtrek 2008 Jaiku channel.

Puede que aún sea pronto para analizar y evaluar impactos, pero el nanoblogging, también llamado microblogging, es una interesante aportación que las nuevas tecnologías hacen al periodismo. Francis Pisani, en una de las mesas de la Asamblea de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP), la de "nuevos lectores", ha dicho que las plataformas de microblogging se muestran como la novedad más destacable del momento para la profesión. Pero no citó a Jaiku, sino a Twitter.

Un ejemplo de las posiblidades de esta herramienta lo ha dado 233grados. com, que realiza una espléndida cobertura en su blog y también utiliza Twitter para ofrecer un servicio en vivo y en directo de lo que sucede en el Hotel Meliá Castilla. Antes, ya habían trabajado en forma similar en el paradigmático caso del accidente de Spainair en Barajas de este verano. En momentos así, con una enorme avalancha de datos prácticamente simultáneos, es cuando el microblogging se convierte en una herramienta especialmente útil. Y da igual que el avance venga de las manos de Jaiku o de Twitter.

Muy ilustrativa de lo que está ocurriendo es esta entrada de Malas Palabras, de la que reproduzco la ilustración final, que muestra muchos de los errores de principiante de microblogging  -causa de tantos abandonos prematuros-, y la reseña de las palabras de uno de los apóstoles del microblogging, Pablo Mancini:

Qué no contar en Twitter

“Twitter revive los peores prejuicios que hace unos años tenían como objeto a los blogs y ahora, parece, a los chats distribuidos. Aún con sobredosis de gerundios y función fática del discurso, Twitter sobrevive y crece. ¿Por qué? Porque la potencia es el formato, la arquitectura y no el contenido. La arquitectura de la red cala más hondo que los contenidos que circulan por ella. La arquitectura de la red es su política y eso es algo que la política elitista sobre contenidos -moderna, nada posmo, verticalista e idealista- no comprende porque piensa en viejo. Twitter es un emergente minúsculo de la era de la fluidez, 140 caracteres de la desinvención de la modernidad. Cuando nos molesta -a todos nos pasó- es porque nos transforma. Relájate y goza.” (Pablo Mancini)

Otras entradas sobre microblogging:

La información se hace nano, micro, pequeña

Periodismo Twitter

Veckans Jesus: Tarmplack som beskriver nattvarden på ett minst sagt udda sätt. Man undrar ju vad Emanuel Karlstens bloggläsare skulle tycka om den beskrivningen...

Veckans puss: Den finns i Solrosland.

Veckans näthat: Marcus Birro skriver om hatarna. De som läser honom som fan läser Bibeln och kritiserar, hackar, jävlas, sticker nålar. De som inte har något bättre för sig.

Jag samlar in vinsterna varje kväll. Det slog mig idag; jag har allt vad jag drömde om. Jag vann. Jag slutade dricka, gick ner tjugo kilo i vikt, jag får beundrapost varje dag, jag skriver böcker som berör människor, jag får skriva om italiensk fotboll i en av landets största tidningar och på nätet, jag drar massor av folk på mina uppläsningar, jag har ett eget direktsänt radioprogram i Sveriges Radio, jag vinner priser för det jag gör, mina böcker säljer fint, jag tjänar bra med pengar, jag har en kvinna som älskar mig och en stor vacker lägenhet mitt i stan. Jag styr min egen tid. Jag har en av Sveriges mest lästa litteraturbloggar, jag har världens bästa bloggläsare. Hur känns det, herr hatare? Svider det?

Veckans debattartikel: Josh har skrivit om internet. I gammelmedia. Pedagogiskt och bra för nätovana.

Veckans comeback: Halvars Huvudsaker. Han började så smått blogga igen men nu känns det att han är tillbaks på riktigt. Och så välkommen!

Veckans onanitips: Hittar jag helt otippat hos Inkonsekvens. Och det kommer från Sundsvall.

Veckans bilder: Jo jag gillar Blogges bilder från Pride.

Veckans historielektion: Den får vi hos Älskade dumburk som så fint förklarar uttrycket Cliffhanger, sådär som bara hon kan.

Veckans "tänk utanför lådan": Lokesson vänder på steken.

Veckans egoboost: Den här gången är det Ulrika som skrivit sådär fint så jag blir generad. Och så är jag med på en lista över kvinnor som bloggar om sociala medier och onlinemedia. En ganska kort lista för övrigt.

Veckans boktips: Andreas Ekström har läst Byt namn! Den vill jag också läsa.

Veckans Beta: 12seconds.tv. En form av mikrobloggtjänst där man har tolv sekunder på sig att spela in en liten video och säga nåt vettigt eller kanske ingenting. Jag har bara en follower än så länge och de som tittar förstår inte svenska. Om någon är nyfiken har jag några invites.

Veckans idolblogg: Den är inte så himla poppig men om man är en idolnörd kanske det är kul att läsa kapellmästaren Sebastian Robertssons blogg med lite om hur det är bakom kulisserna.

Veckans facebookgrupp: Vem ska trösta mymlan? Jag vet att alla inte tycker om WB. Jag tycker om honom när han skapar en facebookgrupp för att hjälpa mig att hitta mannen i mitt liv. Jag tror inte han kommer lyckas dock. :)

Veckans bloggavhoppare: Klaus-Peter tänker sluta. Eller i varje fall ta en paus. Jag tror inte han kommer kunna hålla sig borta särskilt länge. Jag hoppas inte det.

Veckans Politiskt inkorrekta: Mia skriver om islam, kristendom, HBT-rörelsen och feminister. Med ett perspektiv som förmodligen retar upp en och annan.

Veckans mail: Peter Barlach har fått mail. Nån vill att han ska göra reklam för en bok. Jag vet precis vad jag skulle svarat. "Skicka gärna boken, om jag orkar läsa kommer jag att skriva precis vad jag tycker."

Veckans snackis: Spotify. Förra veckan började det delas ut invites. Användarna som tidigare varit en liten utvald skara fick invites att ge bort. Men inte alltför många. Jag fick till exempel bara en. Men i bubblan exploderade det fullkomligt när alla de som tidigare stått utanför och inte kunnat klicka på Spotifylänkarna fick det underbara programmet i sina datorer. Och så började det skickas och delas låtar och spellistor som aldrig förr. Och de som fortfarande inte fått nån invite känner sig mer utanför än någonsin... Det diskuteras om huruvida det är sjyst att lägga ut Spotifylänkar på Jaiku när inte alla kan ta del av dom. Problemet är ju att en del av glädjen med Spotify är att kunna dela... Det var stor Spotifyfest på Berns förra helgen och det spekuleras vilt i när tjänsten ska lanseras. Det pratas också om pengar.

Själv har jag haft förmånen att ha Spotify ett tag och om någon är nyfiken på min musiksmak kan ni få mina best of-listor. Den svenska. Och den inte lika svenska. Med reservationer för att det fortfarande fattas en hel del riktigt bra låtar på Spotify, så jag har fått välja second best av en del artister/grupper, och några har jag inte hittat alls. Johan Larsson är nog inte heller ute och cyklar när han ställer frågan vem som bara lyssnar på musik vid datorn.

Veckans nyhet: Kyrkan som använde cannabisbilder med texten: ”Alltid öppet för dig som är intresserad, nyfiken och vill pröva på”.

Veckans budord: Thomas Manfredh på tidningen Dagen har skrivit tio budord för bloggare. Inte så tokiga faktiskt.

Veckans teve: Jag tittar inte så mycket på teve. Men Magnus Betnér är fruktansvärt rolig. Och så kan man titta på nätet.

Veckans "modeblogg": Bump. Hennes outfits slår allt.

Veckans låt: Den här låten skulle definitivt ha varit med på min best of på Spotify om den funnits där. Men som sagt - utbudet lämnar fortfarande en hel del övrigt att önska. Videon är kass, ingen video ens, tror inte det finns nån kanske för att Mark Sandman, sångaren i Morphine god innan den här skivan släpptes. Men låten är liksom jag:

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One of the key pieces of work on this was from Marc Prensky on Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Now I was never really very happy about this idea that if you were old (like me, well I am not that old, but it's sometime now since I first sent e-mail, 1987 I think it was) you were only a  digital immigrant and young people were digital natives.

However when I looked at the students at my college, I couldn't see this age divide at all. Yes it was true many of the students were very happy and capable with handing digital devices and playing games, but not all.

We had some digital natives that fitted the description, but we also had a fair few that didn't. There were students who didn't and in some cases couldn't use the internet and the web, not because they hadn't been immersed in a digital world since birth, but because they didn't want to. Also there are issues with many students in relation to the digital divide; they may play video games, but don't have access to the web.

I also couldn't see how myself fitted into this, I may not fit the digital native sterotype, but I knew (well others told me) that I was very much immersed into a digtial world and used the internet in ways in which they couldn't fathom or understand. Was I merely a digital immigrant?

From my experiences on the web I met many digital natives and quite a few of them were over forty!

So it was quite refreshing to read on Dave White's blog a post about residents or visitors to the online world. Like a few others, notably Andy Powell and Josie Fraser, I quite like this concept.

There are some who live in an online world and see the internet as part of their everyday life. This I can identify with. It was for example very strange at ALT-C 2008 to meet Kev Hickey, someone I knew very well from Jaiku. Over the last year we had discussed many e-learning issues and shared experiences of applications, but also I had seen his photographs from Blackpool, I knew the names of his dogs, I felt he was someone I would call a friend.

So it was very weird to actually meet him in person at ALT-C. He is just one of many people I know from online in just my e-learning sphere, better wave to Lisa at this point...

I can quite easily see how that I can be a digtial resident, living part of my life in an online world. I do use the internet a lot and do use a range of online services and applications to make my life easier, to communicate, to share, to drink coffee and to have a bit of fun as well.

Working with many staff in the college (and quite a few students as well) I often find that they are merely visitors, using the online world when it suits them and meets their needs.

I'm reminded of a member of staff at a training session who was quite vocal about being a "technophobe" and didn't want to use technology in her teaching (note the word teaching and not learning). So basically I ignored her, there were staff there who were interested. As we moved around the room, another member of staff started talking about how she used learning technologies, how she used the VLE and then she remarked on how she used MSN chat to converse with her students at a time and place to suit them. At this point the "technophobe" spoke up and said, "oh I use MSN chat all the time to talk to my daughter in Australia". For me she is the perfect example of a visitor to the online world, using the technologies when  it suits her needs and ignoring the potential that other tools, services and applications could offer her and importantly her learners.

Having said that, on Josie's Blog there was a comment from Mike Amos-Simpson which I think is worth repeating.

I think that perhaps when its considered as a 'world' it maybe makes too many people feel like aliens!

I agree with Mike that calling it a world could alienate people, but then again so does using the terms like digital native and digital immigrant.

So are you a visitor or a resident? Or do you prefer native and immigrant?

The good news about all this fecundity is that each system actually has some distinctive features and there is a fair amount of innovation and imitation amongst the players. Twitter has pretty much defined the genre but its agonisingly slow progress towards stability has meant that its feature set is actually pretty sparse. It is real bare bones stuff. Only the recent election page gives an indication of what a future Twitter might look like.

Laconica is open source and Identi.ca is clear on the ownership of the material on the site. Collectively they represent the open source solution to microblogging. The service also has the idea of tags that create a new way of reading posts and actually encourage you to connect to people you do not already know. Tags are really Laconica's special sauce and as people use hashtags anyway I am sure it will not be long before all sites recognise them (particularly as Ping.fm and the like broadcast the same message to all the sites). For the moment though I love tagging stuff in posts and then looking at who else has posts with that tag.

Jaiku is part of the Google umbrella of services and you really notice when the ads appear. It makes you think "How does Twitter get by from week to week?". Jaiku's take on microblogging includes two special features, comments and channels. Comments are simply the ability to reply to other's posts. Ironically the comments have no message limit (unlike the original post) and therefore comments on a post can become more forum post like. It's interesting because it allows you to expand on the original topic but it also feels like something that defeats the whole purpose of microblogging.

The other problem with Jaiku is that comments do not appear threaded in your personal timeline so your contact's comments float there with no context and you have to explictly root out what the comment is responding to exactly. This is, officially, rubbish; comment threads should work just like Facebook's new comment system with threads appearing in your timeline in order and regardless of who you are following.

Jaiku's channels are also a mixed bag, they again allow you to connect to people who share interests with you but who you don't yet know. Great, but currently there are simply not enough people on Jaiku, this will change when people can login to the service with their Google ids but until then a lot of channels are filled with RSS feeds which is technically nifty but also spammy and boring. Being able to comment on RSS feeds is only interesting if there is someone else reading your comments.

The other problem is that channels are much more formal than hashtagging. The nice thing about Hash Tags is that you can drop one into your post and see if there is anything else similar. With a channel you have to open and own one and the lack of people means you effectively create a channel with one person and no posts. At least the hashtags guarantee that there is always one post for each tag.

Right, that's the technical side of things out of the way. One interesting thing about having multiple blogging accounts is the way you can now start to divide your posting. Previously I was probably over-posting to Twitter; I hate people who post their breakfast as much as anyone but it is easy to slip into trivial updates.

Now with multiple accounts I am starting to segregate stuff. Since Twitter was originally about keeping the pulse with the distributed beast that is The ThoughtWorks I am keeping technical/work stuff there. Weird observations about London and more esoteric stuff is going to Identi.ca. Partly because I hope to find new cool people who like esoteric stuff via tagging.

Jaiku has struggled to find a niche in my microblogging ecosystem but I am starting to think that if we take discussion and conversation to be the primary thing Jaiku is about then the logical content is actually contentious stuff and posts about games.

I will be curious to see whether people begin using their accounts in different ways as well or whether they just spam all their accounts with the same stuff via a cross-posting application or website. If they do, then I think Twitter suffers most and Jaiku gains as you effectively gain the ability to annotate and enhance posts in Jaiku in a way that you cannot at the moment in Twitter.

As promised here, below are my Tweets from the Chris Anderson presentation entitled The Future of Free. You can also follow me on Twitter to stay plugged in or to see more updates.

10:00AM Sitting in the front row listening to The Future of Free; Chris Anderson discussing supply and demand on the Internet and how to get value by giving things away

10:09AM Our language reflects what we think of the concept of free in that there is both "good" free (liberation) and "bad" free (come-on) but there is no "free" lunch (so to speak)

10:14AM The different types of "free" that make up the freeconomy

Cross-Subsidy: see King Gillette and the disposable razors. It’s about loss leaders; give-a-ways; disposable products

Too Cheap To Meter: See Moore’s Law of Diminishing Costs - ever-cheaper inputs yield ever more complex products that can be made for next to nothing; telephones, gas, electricity, computer memory, computing power, Internet bandwidth

Ad-Supported Free: This is 3rd party subsidization – i.e. TV, Radio, Internet – and it is the model of the 20th century (the one we all know)

Allen Kay > developed graphical user interface at Xerox Park > used by Apple and MS Windows > lead to Tim Berners Lee and HTML > gave us the WWW >  what's next?

10:38AM Moore's Law leads to novel and "wasteful" ways to use technology - which can change everything - the Internet is all about waste, new ideas, frequent failure, occasional successes, and the cycle

Technologists have only one legitimate job >> make it cheap and fast then get out of the way and let the crowd decide how to use it. Don't try to tell us what to do because you can’t see the forest for the trees.

10:48AM The rule in the "free" Internet economy ... marginal cost = zero, so in order to make money you must give it away in exchange for the new currencies of attention and reputation [the Internet leads the way here]

Attention = links

Reputation = page rank

The new paradigm: give away 100 to covert 1 and still cover your costs

10:57AM In the Q&A session Mr. Anderson answered my question about converting groups of professionals and other scarcity-based “knowledge workers” like Attorneys, CPA’s, Physicians, etc.

A Face For Radio

Vintage TV show You Are There represented early television's attempt to evoke a live event by recreating a historical one. Kind of like reporting or blogging. As a TV show however, it was the kind of yawner that could only have aired at a time when the medium was desperate for content and network executives reasoned that any show that had enjoyed success on the radio couldn’t miss on TV. So what's that got to do with NextFest 2008? Let me explain.

Mr. Micro Meet Mr. Blog

When I got the invitation to hear Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson talk about his book Free! I planned to blog the experience as I had the ABA TechShow and other events over the past few years.

But when I arrived at NextFest something told me this was going to be different. Maybe it was the pervasive use of blue lights or the elegant feng shui of the exhibits; maybe I had an epiphany wedged in the front row of the audience between one lady holding a video-camera over my head and another balancing a pocket recorder between thumb and forefinger inches from my face. Whatever the reason, I knew that I had to take evasive action. My answer: iPhone + Twitterphone. You can see the results in this companion post or choose to follow me on Twitter.

So...What's The Connection?

As Anderson noted in his presentation, The Future of Free (which is really just his spin on Joseph Schumpeter's theory of “creative destruction”), there are a number of forces that link new ideas and new media, from You Are There in the early days of television to Twitter on the Internet. They are:

• Fear of scarcity brings out radically different behaviors than hopes of abundance
• The latter inevitably leads to waste - the good kind that encourages trial-and-error
• Where the cost of failure is virtually zero, experimentation will flourish
• Where people are trying new things all the time, at least 1 good idea is bound to assert itself
• If the attempt is a bust, the cycle can quickly restart thanks to low barriers and costs

In the end, You Are There wasn't so much a TV show as a radio program retrofitted for the new medium. It wasn't until mass adoption of TV-sets and the ubiquity of free programming a decade later that broadcasters began understanding that they could afford to fail and not lose their audience. The experience lead TV in directions that its inventors could never have foreseen.

The Future of Free! Is The Future of the Internet

The Internet is our generation’s zero-cost distribution system; our TV. Twitter itself is a perfect example of how the Internet has lead to waste – the wrong and right kinds. So what if Twitter and its clones turn out to be spectacular failures? It doesn't matter; the eco-system created by the Internet is still at work so long as thousands of failures lead to 1 good idea. After all, that's what the future of free is all about.

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I dagarna släpptes den nya microbloggen Bloggy. Själv använder jag mig av Jaiku vilket mest har blivit en samlingpunkt för folk från olika håll med stort intresse för sociala medier. Inga av mina närmsta vänner är aktiv medlem där. Vi har även Twitter som har blivit stort i USA men inte riktigt slagit igenom i Sverige än. Nu har som sagt en ny aktör dykt upp, Bloggy.se 

Det Bloggy tillför till microbloggbordet är ett enkelt gränssnitt för att posta film, musik, filer och länkar direkt i microbloggen. Fredrik Wass funderar över om Jaiku-bubblan kommer att göra en kollektiv flytt till Bloggy eller stanna kvar på Jaiku. Jag tror själv att Bloggy har potential att bli vad Bloggkoll.se har blivit för svenssonbloggaren som inte använder sig av Google Reader eller andra RSS-läsare, en svensson-microblogg.

Interesse ao longo dos últimos 12 meses:

Mesmo que você não abra o gráfico, dá pra perceber claramente a discrepância entre Twitter e os demais, né?

Ninguém abre os números de quantos usuários eles realmente tem. Mas fazendo uma pesquisa rápida e utilizando alguns diretórios como base, chega-se a alguns resultados:

• Existem cerca de 3100000 usuários do Twitter atualmente
• No Brasil estaríamos entre 9000 e 11000 usuários do Twitter
• Os países que mais usam Twitter são Japão, Estados Unidos, Taiwan, Cingapura e Canada.
• Pouco mais de 81000 usuários do Plurk, sendo apenas 27% destes ativos
• Cerca de 5000 usuários do Plurk no Brasil
• Tumblr tem uma média de 150000 novos posts todos os dias
• Apenas Pownce e Jaiku possibilitam propaganda na ferramenta (no Jaiku é possível via AdSense)

Muitos dos números do Twitter se devem aos spammers - boa parte dos novos usuários são bots prontos para sujar o ambiente. Aliás, há poucos meses Twitter e Pownce colocaram uma ferramenta anti-spam no ar, criando um limite para novos seguidores que facilita a identicação dos bots. Além disso, algumas empresas já descobriram que é possível usar as ferramentas de microblogging a seu favor, criando contas de seus produtos e divulgando serviços - apesar dos números ainda serem baixos, o custo de uma ação no Twitter vale o esforço, a não ser que seja tão mal feita que gere uma lembrança negativa de marca.

O que fica de toda a discussão em cima do Twitter aguentar o tranco ou não é o velho comodismo - por mais que experimentemos novos produtos (a snack culture está aí para provar), é necessário um esforço enorme para trocarmos completamente de lugar. São vários os motivos:

• Barreira social: meus amigos já estão lá. Terei que fazer um esforço (por menor que seja) para levar todos para o novo ambiente
• Adequação de uso: mesmo que uma nova ferramenta tenha uma experiência de uso melhor, ela pode ser considerada não tão agradável se estiver muito distante do "padrão" e sua curva de aprendizado não foi curta.
• Histórico: muitos se apegam ao conteúdo criado, por mais que ele muitas vezes seja efêmero. Migrar para uma nova ferramenta pode significar perder uma história ou um status já conquistado em outro lugar.
• Medo do novo: por mais que o novo possa ser melhor, o consumidor desconhece, não sabe suas qualidades mas também se surpreenderá com seus defeitos, que podem trazer frustações ainda não contornadas.

E por aí vai - daria para perdermos hora discutindo diversos motivos, mas tenho que ir alí atualizar o meu Twitter, aproveitando que ele não baleiou ainda ;)

Jag är aptrött och har inte hunnit testa allt, men ändå inte kunnat slita mig. Jag är faktiskt lite kär. Ta bara en sån sak som detta:

Möjligheten att så himla enkelt lägga in länkar, filer, musik och annat i en postning skiljer sig såå från Jaiku och Twitter. Man funderar över vad Google egentligen tänkte med Jaiku...

Jag har hittat en sak att anmärka på, och det är designen. Eller snarare loggan. Så här ser den ut:

Som ni ser skär den sig till min fina bakgrund som är en bild av Miró.

Jag tror att Jaiku fått sin riktigt stora utmanare nu bland avantgardet. Och den är svensk. Man blir nästan lite stolt.

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Perhaps it's my own fault. Perhaps I'm one of those social media geeks, a first mover etc. who thinks everything needs to be very new and exciting before I like it. But still I think that the winning start-up was a little disappointing.

So let's take a look at the winner - Yammer.

What is it? It's a Twitter-like application for businesses.
The difference from Twitter is that this application is in a closed enviroment. Only people with a valid company email address can start a free Yammer network.
That way it's only people from the same company who can access the same Yammer network.

And that's basically a good thing - but what is the news? What is the "big thing"? Apparently the "big thing" is that there's a paying service included. Which means that the start-up company in fact has a possible way of making an income from day one and therefore don't need to introduce online advertising or other ways of make a buck later on. The service you have to pay for is the Admin privileges. If you want to manage the members of your company-Yammer you will have to pay $1 pr month pr. member.

And that's it. Everything else you can have better on Twitter or Jaiku. Don't get me wrong - it's a good application - but not so good that it should be able to win as the best start-up.

But there are of course some possibilities. The best one is that Yammer would fit enterprises which are inexperienced with in the social media. It's a way for them to get introduced to the "Twitter-way" and thereby perhaps get them to use social media within the company and perhaps even make a social media policy. But I think that Yammer will end up banging it's head against the "corporate-security-wall". Not many IT-departments will allow Yammer if they won't allow applications like Twitter.

I hope it will catch on - because everything which can get companies to use social media is a good thing. But a winner application in a competition with the best start-ups? No way...

So back to Jaiku - Jaiku is a hybrid of micro-blogging and social networking, a bit like FaceBook but without the zombies, snowballs, various types of wall and all the other things I don't see the point of. Jaiku is much purer - it is primarily text based, with each person created an 'account' and then connecting to other people. You post to the site giving an update of what you are doing, and everyone who is connected to you sees that. But the beauty of Jaiku is that it can be used in conjunction with a mobile phone. So I can send a message to Jaiku from my phone (this costs me 21p so I don't do it very often - other people on different data plans this is less). But more interestingly I can set Jaiku up to send any messages that my contacts post, to my phone - and this is completely free.

There are then 2 ways to play this:-

1) A tutor could create a Jaiku account to support a group of learners, the learners can then create Jaiku accounts, set themselves up to receive text message alerts. They then connect to the tutor so when he/she posts a message to Jaiku (from their computer) they get the message sent to their phone - with no cost to either party.

2) A tutor could have 1 Jaiku account, and then set up something called channels - with 1 channel for each group of learners. With channels, what the tutor has to do is identify which channel they want to send a message to, so the right learners get the right message.

The thing that I like about this model, is that it puts learner in complete control of what they recieve. They choose whether to create a Jaiku account, they choose whether to connect to the tutor or not, they choose whether to get messages sent to their phone or not. When I have suggested this model at training sessions, some staff are concerned that if some learners don't do all the steps they won't get the messages and this is a serious problem - but in reality a learner has always had the right to not provide a mobile phone number, so wouldn't have got messages anyway. This also makes staff think about the way they use these technologies. we need to move on from reminding learners that its a Monday and therefore they need to get to College.

And then there are the people saying that having invested so heavily into a VLE that we should be using some function in that  (just because its there), well with Jaiku you can get an RSS feed, which means if you use for example Moodle you can add an RSS block that takes that feed - this way people not accessing the messages from their phone will still be able to access them.

And when you start using Jaiku, and realising that you can add in RSS feeds from other sources (Flickr, YouTube, Veotag, Gabcast.....) you can create a very rich learning environment.

Oh and did I mention this is all free.

Sedan borde ni också testa dropbox. 2gb gratis hårddisk på nätet liksom. Man kan välja att dela vissa mappar.

Utöver detta så borde ni läsa kontaktmannens blogg, det är en frisk fläkt.

Så kom jag på en grej till, skaffa ett jaikukonto, det är ungefär som internet fast lite roligare.

There are some wonderful FREE tools that can be used for business and just basic networking. Wonderful code and interfaces that can post to multiple sites at once and have a clean fresh, uncluttered feel.

After a few hours of playing around here are my favorites:

Posterous.com - Great look and feel to the site overall and amazing functionality. You can post from your phone or e-mail account which is awesome and anything you attach (images, sound, etc.) shows up on your microblog. Use it to give a status or as a blog. You can also update on the web. As an added bonus, Posterous interfaces with other networking sites such as twitter, blogger, wordpress and others! You an post to several accounts with just one note or posting on the web!! Oh, and by the way, they let you add several e-mail accounts so that no matter where you are (work, home, etc.), you can post! Once they get Jaiku, they will be hands down the BEST!

Ping.fm - My next favorite! With Ping, you can post to all of your status, microblog, blog and networking sites from one page! Ping not only saves your status and microblog and blog posts on your profile (which can be a blog itself), but it posts to several networking sites (myspace, Facebook, xanga, twitter, jaiku, pownce, livejournal, Yahoo!360...and this is not all). You can choose what to post (status, microblog or blogpost) and choose which accounts get what types of posts and also set up "custom" settings or shortcuts that tell Ping which accounts to post to. You can post to one, or all with one click. I've used it to update as many as 7 sites at one time!! It's my favorite to use for updating my blogs.

Tumblr.com - I love the look and feel. Like Posterous it's a clean site that you can post everything on. You can post text, images, audio, favorite quotes, web links and even has a chat function! You can also e-mail , text or IM posts into Tumblr and you can embed your Tumblog into another site...it's the best of both worlds!!! The only thing is that it doesn't interface with other sites. Other sites can post to it, but I haven't seen where you can post from Tumblr to other blogs. All in all, still one of my favorites. Developers also have Tumblr API as a tool that's available (way over my head!).

Not only are they fun, but they are pretty good productivity tools for contacting customers if you own a business. I look forward to discovering even more on these. Stop by these wonderful sites and check them out!

Staci

(Don't forget to check out my earlier blogposts to see how you can help feed the hungry this winter...Sight Sound and Word needs YOU!)

Harjoitusten aikana tuli muuten esille vakava puute Jaiku-kanavien RSS-syötteistä: ne eivät sisällä kommentteja! Toisin sanoen RSS-syötteiden kautta jää koko keskustelusta paitsi. Jaikun hyödynnettävyys esimerkiksi tähtimallissa koki tässä kovan kolauksen.

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Design i flera lager... :)

Att vandra mot K3 klockan tre på eftermiddagen är inget konstigt, när man söker efter lite miljöombyte. Men att man möter halva Malmö får än att förstå att det är fredag och de flesta slutar att jobba då... Detta är inte en värklighet jag just nu lever i. Ett projekt som behöver och begär all tid och kraft för att kunna levereras och exikuveras på bästa möjliga sätt måndag morgon. Just nu börjar några riktigt tunga stena falla på plats och det känns riktigt skönt. Det kommer dock bli en riktigt låååång helg innan det är dags!
Men eftersom vi tror på balans inom dig ger balans inom ditt arbete kommer vi att avsluta dagen med några öl på en seeeen afterwork innan vi återtar arbetet imorgon bitti. Ja det är klart, i alla stora städer har man helg öppet, iof ligger väll Malmö på gränsen där kan jag tänka. Men eftersom projektet hålls i Köpenhamn rättfärdigas argumentet! By the way finns nu på Jaiku om man önskar följa mig där!

Mina tips på hur man marknadsför sin blogg:

Vi börjar med själva bloggen. Håll bloggen aktiv, skriv nya inlägg regelbundet och svara på de kommentarer du får på dina inlägg, visa att du bryr sig, skapa relationer.. Försök att skriva med ord som sökmotorer gillar, så kallad SEO, detta gör att din blogg kommer högre upp i sökalternativen. 

När du skriver ditt inlägg se också till att du taggar, det vill säga att du beskriver din blogg med enstaka ord. Detta inlägg kommer jag tagga med ord som: blogg, marknadsföring, SEO, sociala medier, twitter, pinga, rss.. för att nämna några =) Det som är relativt med blogginlägget. Det gör din blogg älskad av sökmotorerna.

Rss feed, ett måste!

Andra bloggare. Hittar du en blogg som du tycker är intressant eller kanske en vän som bloggar, se till att länka till dessa personer och vise verse. Var aktiv inom bloggvärlden, kommentera andras bloggar, du måste ut och vandra mellan bloggar för att de ska hitta dig.

Sociala medier. Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku och Linkedin är alla exempel på bra medier där du kan marknadsföra din blogg. Gör dina kontakter och vänner medvetna om din blogg. Du kan länka till din blogg och även låta ett meddelande gå ut till dina vänner när du skrivit ett nytt inlägg, Pinga.

Det finns som sagt ovan mycket man kan göra och i slutändan handlar det om att su är väldigt aktiv i både din och andras bloggar. 

Tips till bloggare. 

Kommentera gärna och fyll på med dina tips.

This workshop will explore how using Web 2.0 can rethink the digital divide.

Gloucestershire College has been using Web 2.0 to enhance and enrich the learning process for a wide variety of learners across the breadth and depth of the curriculum. They have developed a range of learning scenarios and activities that are integrated into the learning process and support a diverse range of learners.

This workshop will demonstrate how Web 2.0 can be used to solve some of the issues facing diverse learners in this era of Facebook. YouTube, Twitter and then some…

The concept of Web 2.0 services in addressing the tensions between formal and informal learning, and empowering learners to take responsibility for their own learning will be examined. Then, how we need to address the pedagogical needs to drive the use of Web 2.0 services and not be blinded or awed by the technology of Web 2.0, will be explored.

During the workshop participants will be able to discuss and debate different learning scenarios and activities which utilise Web 2.0 services. Web 2.0 services will be used to demonstrate these scenarios.

Participants will discuss and debate these scenarios in small groups, covering how they could be utilised within their own institutions, examining the potential conflict between formal learning scenarios and the informal learning scenarios that Web 2.0 offers.

The groups will also discuss how the pedagogy needs to drive the scenarios and not the technology and address how Web 2.0 can empower learners to take responsibility for their own learning. Each group will provide feedback through either a blog entry, an audio podcast or a video presentation. These will then be made available online to allow participants to comment and continue the discussion beyond the workshop, and also allow other conference delegates to participate in the discussion.

After the workshop, the participants will have a greater understanding of the role of Web 2.0 in addressing the digital divide.

They will have considered how Web 2.0 can help resolve the tensions between formal and informal learning; discussed how Web 2.0 technologies in themselves mustn’t drive the learning, but support the pedagogy; and debated how Web 2.0 can empower learners to take responsibility for their learning.

The participants will have presented the results of their discussion and debate, through the use of a variety of learning technologies, to other participants and to other conference delegates.

I ran the workshop at ALT-.

Session seemed to go well though I did have about sixty people in a long narrow room.

The feedback from the session can be found here:

http://altcworkshop.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to add comments to people’s blog posts.

Other stuff from the workshop can be found on

Flickr

http://flickr.com/photos/jamesclay

Qik

http://qik.com/video/285383

Seesmic

http://seesmic.com/jamesclay

Jaiku
http://molenet.jaiku.com/

Recorded Gabcast podcasts from my sessions at #altc2008 today. They are online now at http://tinyurl.com/hood2feedback

A few comments from other people’s blogs and links mentioned as part of feedback.

http://www.projectwhite.com/tag/altc2008/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2286799/Can-we-use-Twitter-for-educational-activities

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/04/live-reviewing-a-book-on-twitter-here-comes-everybody-by-clay-shirky/
and here’s a reflection
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/07/twitter-reviewing-some-reflections/

http://ashleywright.org/2008/09/09/hood-20-its-a-web-20-world/

http://www.projectwhite.com/tag/altc2008/ - loads of stuff , excellent

Thanks everyone, some great feedback and ideas.