a practice question for you

[Diane Brandon]

Harrison, in case I was the one causing you confusion.... I'll paste  
in below my short post on someone at IBM writing  "...blogs tend to  
promote understructured, unattributed, and unvalidated discussion."  
This was a comment on a blog, about blogging, and the link is in the  
email below, if you want to know the context.

I posted it on this list with a chuckle. For those who enjoy free  
flowing and open conversations, validated only by ourselves, it  
offered an interesting contrast!

I'm on our town's "Comprehensive Planning Committee" and advocating  
for some self-organizing citizen gatherings, to increase citizen  
energy and engagement. I rather doubt that the IBM process is  
energizing, but maybe I'm wrong about that?   ;-)

Diane

Diane Brandon, M.Ed., Coordinator
KEYS Coalition (CWC)
Landmark Hill Community Resource Center
518 Rte One Suite 4
Kittery, ME 03904
207-438-9100
Fax: 207-439-8764
diane at keysregion.org
www.keysregion.org



On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Michael – I liked what you said – very useful. And I wonder if  
> there is a way to insure that at least the subject lines of the  
> blogs shows up on OSLIST? Truthfully, I tend to forget about the  
> blog, just look at OSLIST and hence miss a lot of good stuff. And  
> practically in this case, I think there was discussion here about  
> “structured and unstructured” which had me totally confused (not  
> hard to do) because I had no idea where it came from.
>
>


On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Diane Brandon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I got a chuckle just now, reading that "...blogs tend to promote  
> understructured, unattributed, and unvalidated discussion."
>
> You can read the full discussion here:
> http://www.myvalleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?aid=436
>
> Skim the blog "article" and go down to the comments section, for a  
> lengthy explanation of new IBM software that is being suggested as  
> an alternative to blogs, re community development conversations.
>
> Maybe it's just me.... but I felt tired just thinking about this  
> new software!
>
> Diane
>
> PS The blogger, Heather, is our son's wife.



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