Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. We are now very used to interacting with resources in a social context.
The application of community to content, in terms of discussion, recommendation, reviews, ratings and so on, is evident in many of the services we use, and in some form in most of the major network servies we use (Amazon, iTunes, Netflix, ...). Indeed, this is now so much a part of our experience that sites without this experience can seem bleached somehow, like black and white TV in a color world. In a reductive view, here are three types of social experience, which may be present singly or in combination in these sites. ConversationConnection Context. We explicitly talk about resources (conversation). The Technium. [Translations: Italian] Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes.
Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene.