Stigmergic systems - summary of theory

Stigmergy. I like it already. Kidding aside, its about collaboration. Stigmergic systems - summary of theory

Fafner awaits the blog maven.

Fafner awaits the blog maven.
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Casa Iverson. Summer office and blog central.

technology and the social � Blog Archive � Blogger Motivations: Power Pull and Positive Feedback

I haven't read the paper yet, but I will before we return from summer fun. The student who wrote it won a prize from the Internet Research group. technology and the social :Blog Archive: Blogger Motivations: Power Pull and Positive Feedback

The journalism department is moving, so I feel like I have no place to hang on campus. I am making the most of it, however, and here you can see my "Summer Office."

technology and the social:Blog Archive :What is a wiki good for? an explanation for teachers

Hi blogoteers. Here is an interesting blog entry about what wikis are good for. This blogger recently won an award for her research on blogs and college students. I will probably link to that too. technology and the social %uFFFD Blog Archive %uFFFD What is a wiki good for? an explanation for teachers

Collaborative Scholarship via blogs

The "Computers and Writing" community, a sub-set of Rhetoric/Composition scholarship, has a phalanx of active bloggers who are just finishing a "carnival" of blogging about a particular article. See some of the posts here, here, and here.

This seems to be a distinctly different activity than the one we're engaged in here--collaborative single-site authorship. Each author assumes others are reading some of the carnival but presumably no-one reads it all. Hmmm.