Collective mind probes. If you hang out in the blog-twitter-sphere you’ve doubtless seen recent mention of brand tags, Noah Brier’s “collective experiment in brand perception”. The site shows you brand logos and asks you to tag them with the first word or phrase that comes to mind. Then it shows you how others tagged those brands. It’s addictive. Here, for example, are the top tags for Jet Blue and United Airlines: Jet Blue: cheap, plane, airline, fly, blue, airplane, tv, cool, fun United Airlines: airlines, airline, airplane, fly, plane, air, old, bankrupt These slices of collective perception are remarkable indicators.
Twitter: useless, annoying, stupid, web 2.0, fun, bird, blog, ? Techcrunch: ? Readwriteweb: ? Evidently the site is tapping into a broader population that doesn’t know about Twitter, TechCrunch, and ReadWriteWeb. Flickr: photos, pictures, photo, cool, picture, pics, fun, awesome What’s a good result for your brand? Does the list begin with a question mark? Such controls could be implemented. Main Page - SemWiki2008. Human Brain Cloud: Play. The Learner as Network. Jeff Jarvis posted one of those push-my-feeble-brain-to-the-limit posts last week which I think has resonance in a lot of ways. It starts with this: In the future of media, which is now, everybody is a network.
In the past, networks were defined by control of content or distribution. But now, you can’t own all distribution and content is controlled where it’s created. He writes about how when we work and practice in a transparent, read and write environment, all of us become nodes in much larger networks. George Siemens in this.) Networks are about sharing now; they used to be about control. It’s interesting how much this speaks to education, and how far we need to go. The biggest problem is how few of our educators still cannot relate to this description. ShareThis. Constellation W - Un nouveau modèle pour la société du XXIe siècle.
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