- Participated in the BB forums
- Tried to find a way to get an RSS feed out of BB into FF
- Set up a FriendFeed group for the class, imported all the feeds of my classmates’ blogs
- Read everyone’s blog posts as they came in through FriendFeed, and commented on a few
- Contributed to the class wiki
- Tried to read next week’s assignment. I really hate the term produsage, so its been a hard read. Thank goodness I read Shirky over vacation!
- Created a video on how to hyperlink and how to burn a feed, use Newsgator and FriendFeed. I hate recording myself, so this is stretching for me.
- Answered the Big Question on my main blog, linked to this blog. This will probably be the hardest thing for me – I don’t have time to double post. What I normally put on my blog are the topics being covered in both classes. But I don’t want to neglect my main blog for six weeks! What to do…
- Started thinking about my first “produsage” assignment.
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July 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Can I point to this as a model of what to do? It’s a good summary (and you’ve done a nice job of kicking off the class and contributing to the sense of community *and* technical well-being — thanks!).
Also, I must confess to hating the term produsage, too. It almost made me not read the book in the first place, although I’m glad I gave in because it’s better (for this class, anyway) than any of the other texts I reviewed/have read.
July 5th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Rather than the term “produsage,” what term would you prefer to use?
July 5th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Vanessa – sure you can point to this post.
Yvonne, I’m not sure why I hate that term. Its too “marketing-y” for me. I think the author is very class-blind as well. He makes these sweeping statements of how web 2.0 is changing communication forever – which is true – but the assumption that EVERYONE can participate is false and scary. You have to be of a certain class to afford a computer or wiresless hand-held device, and you have to be able to afford the monthly access fee. Then you have to have the time to participate.
Also doesn’t produsage mean you have to *do* something to be a participant? What about lurkers?
I don’t know what else I’d call it. I just think its a stupid word.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Thanks, Gina.
I must admit, I try to just blow past the hyperbolic statements of the technology changing everything, blah blah blah. Not just in this book, but in many from this general category. We don’t know what the far-reaching impacts of the technology are just yet, but not everyone is a participant. There’s some interesting stuff going on with mobile phones, which reach another subset of the world population who does not have regular internet/computers, but still it’s not as ubiquitous as air and water. It’s a commodity, and I don’t see how it can ever be a perfect equalizer (although it will shift the balance of power in some instances).
I think Bruns ignores the lurkers. Maybe we should discuss that on the discussion board next week?