I’m pretty sure that Radio Userland will have a bright future. I can’t say why I’m sure but I believe in it. And since I read once about the power of the will. Let’s see what happens.

Lately I asked the Aoir-Mailing-List
to support me with litearture on the history of innovation. I got very helpful replies. The list is here now

• Bijker, W. E. (1995). Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory
  of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, MA and London, England, The MIT
  Press.
• Everett Rogers’ “Diffusion of Innovations”
• Bruno Latour, Michael Callon, John Law, and the other actor network folk
• ‘the political economy of innovation’
• Clayton Christensen disruptive innovation stuff
• edited by John Seely Brown – Insights on Innovation Link
• Eric von Hippel’s “Source of Innovation” – Oxford University Press – he discusses the front-end of the innovation process – where innovations are actually developed
• FYI The European Commission is planning a two day meeting Sept 14th/15th on Innovation and emerging technology convergencies
• For an interesting discussion of educator learning object use placed in the context of the adoption of innovations, see Friesen, N.

Here in Austria we are still far away from a weblog hype. Although those journalists that are aware of it constantly apply the idea of amateur journalism on blogs. They just can’t think of a successfull blog with just 15 regular readers. The cannot think networks to understand the pecularities.

What the media don’t understand about blogging

I want to try to answer better a question I got asked by Larry Magid who’s putting together a 30 second piece for CBS Radio: What don’t the media understand about blogging?

Now I really wonder if this is innoavtion. Just writing a book yields a Doctorate. Last time we talked about purchasing credits via conference attendance. This time it’s gettin’ more innovative. I wonder how an academically written book is produced by someone who has no formal education. Saying this I claim that at least 50% of a disseration are about complying to the rules.