Multimedia Moblogging. The moment I heard of Howard Rheingold’s concept of ‘Smart Mobs’ I immediately had this vision of ‘Tools for the Mobs’. Joi - at the time - was talking allot about posting blogs from cell phones, but it delights me to see he’s taken that notion further to (what I believe is) a logical extension of an end-users digital identity.

Seeds & notes. Improved Weblogging: Seeds and Notes.

Summary: In this entry I argue that a different position in a process of research/inquiry (thought development?) probably requires a different treatment in the weblogging, klogging process. I discuss a simple model of the thinking process and how each piece of the model might be treated differently by the weblogger.

Die Moblogs kommen!. Eine feine Analyse von Justin Hall: From Weblog to Moblog [=Mobile Blog]. Ist jedoch nicht der einzige interessante Artikel, den thefeature.com (”it’s all about the mobile internet”) zu bieten hat. [ho]

Nancy White on group-forming and networks. “Networks, Groups, and Catalysts”. Nancy White has a very relevant article from August 2002 titled “Networks, Groups and Catalysts: The Sweet Spot for Forming Online Learning Communities”. In it she discusses how online communities form. She writes in her introduction,

“online community or online interaction is not the goal. It’s one means for helping groups achieve their goals. It is not necessarily about “online community” but what conditions and process are needed to enable communities to use the online environment.”

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