I totally agree. A wiki environment is much better than weblogging for thoughtful writing, esp. for evolving information over time.
And with features like SisterSites (not every engine has that) you can give a space to each individual student and they can more easily link to each other.
(One issue with online environments in academic settings is that students will be reading each others stuff, so you can't bolt it onto a teaching process that's focused on not "copying from each other", because it will be hard to enforce.)
Maybe they don't want to disrupt those other secure communications because they support commerce (communication between and individual and a commercial entity), rather than human communication (which seems to be seen as less vital by some people).
That doesn't mean they're correct in believing that such ads work.
Doc Searls writes occasionally about what would happen if your TV's mute button sent a message upstream, showing advertisers how few people were actually watching their ads.
Perhaps no ad medium works (in general), but because the web is measurable, it's failure to work is proven. For instance, your "push" reference to magazines also makes traditional advertisers and media happy, because they all agree to talk about how many of those decisionmakers are reached with a magazine, ignoring the issues of (a) whether a given "target" opened the magazine, and (b) opened the particular page where that ad was, and (c) actually saw the ad.
Dell's idea of lightweight is 6.5 pounds! But I've heard the Vaio's are very well made. What's the best lightweight (5 lbs) laptop with over 10GB hard drive space?
A key question Lewis asks is "why did the VCs fund Healtheon, given that Clark was up front about not spending any time running it, instead of just funding someone else with the same idea"?
Unfortunately, his answer was "this was going to require hard-to-write software, and it would have to get done fast, so the very best developers would be necessary - any Clark would attract those people". Does this strike y'all as accurate?
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I totally agree. A wiki environment is much better than weblogging for thoughtful writing, esp. for evolving information over time.
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And with features like SisterSites (not every engine has that) you can give a space to each individual student and they can more easily link to each other.
(One issue with online environments in academic settings is that students will be reading each others stuff, so you can't bolt it onto a teaching process that's focused on not "copying from each other", because it will be hard to enforce.)
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Maybe they don't want to disrupt those other secure communications because they support commerce (communication between and individual and a commercial entity), rather than human communication (which seems to be seen as less vital by some people).
That doesn't mean they're correct in believing that such ads work.
Doc Searls writes occasionally about what would happen if your TV's mute button sent a message upstream, showing advertisers how few people were actually watching their ads. Perhaps no ad medium works (in general), but because the web is measurable, it's failure to work is proven. For instance, your "push" reference to magazines also makes traditional advertisers and media happy, because they all agree to talk about how many of those decisionmakers are reached with a magazine, ignoring the issues of (a) whether a given "target" opened the magazine, and (b) opened the particular page where that ad was, and (c) actually saw the ad.
Dell's idea of lightweight is 6.5 pounds! But I've heard the Vaio's are very well made. What's the best lightweight (5 lbs) laptop with over 10GB hard drive space?
Unfortunately, his answer was "this was going to require hard-to-write software, and it would have to get done fast, so the very best developers would be necessary - any Clark would attract those people". Does this strike y'all as accurate?