Wednesday, October 14, 2009

One Big Place

Social networks have places for the public and personal aspects of each member of the group, still able to share that space. It would be interesting to base this course solely in a Ning. Everyone's Ning with the Ning. I'm not sure it would hold it all. Whether it's in one place call Ning or Bling or Blackboard, it's all linked together pretty much the same way.

We can't get a grasp on "Where" the web really is, can we? No matter how we try to reign it into an identifiable place, a center, brand, CMS, hub, eMall - there's always someplace just outside that offers some new kind of miraculous idea or service. Facebook is a big success in this area. You can stay wihin their space and get YouTube videos and FamilyAction photos in a comfortable, chatty environment. It's very good at integrating a wide array of media like a kind of a mini-blog, chat, disscussion forum combo. And yet it's still so limited.

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