technology-with-sense: June 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

Cross-Platform Aspects of the Social Web paper

I'm making now some last corrections to the paper for the special track on Cross-Platform Aspects of the Social Web (CPASW '08) within I-Know conference in Graz:
CPASW

I've done a kind of survey about prevalent SNS (social network sites). After talking with my colleague, David, i decide to write once a full survey of SNS and websites with SNS elements. It might be good cited.

Phrases

NYTimes : "serendipity is the spontaneous plugging of these (structural) holes, over which good ideas flow"

Picasso : "I begin with idea, and then it becomes something else", "It takes a long time to become young"

Edison : "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"

Wenger, 1998: "... practice must be understood as a learning process and that a community of practice is therefore an emergent structure, neither inherently stable nor randomly changeable. "

Hofstede, 1991: "Not only organizations are culture bound; theories about organizations are equally culture bound. "

Levitt, 1983: "things are driven by what happens at the margin, not at the core”

Jello Biafra: "Don't fight the media, become the media."

Mark Prensky, 2001: Our students have changed radically. Today's studnets are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Thomas Kempis: The object of education isn’t knowledge; it’s action.

Thomas Henry Huxley’s quote: “The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action.”

"Creativity thrives under constraints" - from Techcrunchit post

"The medium is the message" - Marschall McLuhan

"To know game theory is to change your lifetime way of thinking" - Paul Samuelson

“Intelligence is deeply and inevitably coupled with
interaction.” – Gerhard Weiss

"the central fact about our psyhology is the fact of mediation" - Vygotsky

"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research" - Einstein

"The meaning of resource is use of the community" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality, out-perform groups of like-minded experts." - The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, Scott E. Page.

no social media platform provides an option for users to “quit” from http://innovationinsight.com/blog/2008/signal-to-noise-strategies-for-twitter/