1 Please exchange and collaborate here about: 1.1 WikiSym Keynote by Jonathan Grudin: "Living Without Parental Controls" 1.1.1 ~~Abstract:~~ This is by far the most interesting, dynamic period in the quarter century I've worked on collaboration technologies, and there is every reason to believe the pace will pick up. We can ignore history without being doomed to repeat it, because there is no going back. But there have been trends that suggest what we might watch out for. Ignoring the admonition that "he who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass," I'll describe observations, research, and product innovation that suggest opportunities and challenges swirling toward and around us. Central to the changes is the generation growing up with wikis, weblogs, tagging, map mashups, messaging, multiplayer games, and other social software. 2007-11-05 21:40:34.176 2007-10-14 07:30:12.872 Jonathan has just mentioned that he believes that MMORPGs indicate that people are finding methods of online collaboration that succeed where the research literature claims they shouldn't and these people will bring these skills into the workplace. Simultaneously, the BBC News website had an article about the very same thing on its front page. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7030234.stm). The zeitgeist is stirring, methinks. Bruce Mason Bruce Mason 2007-10-22 16:23:06.704 2007-10-22 16:23:07.072 Jonathan just pointed us to a paper by McGrath (1991) on groupware and group functions and how well it captures the full conceptual space of collaboration, its purposes, and its modes. Interestingly, most commercial software systems focus on Production Function + Execution Mode, which frequently makes them fail in the market because they don't support all the other issues well (like conflict resolution, member support, etc.) Dirk Riehle Dirk Riehle 2007-10-22 16:32:05.928 2007-10-22 16:28:08.872 Interesting to hear him bring on Ong and his ideas on orality, literacy and secondary orality (digital). An alternate way of looking at this might be in terms of transliteracy, ie that one way of getting a handle on how people actually use these new ICTs is to see how they syncretise them. http://www.transliteracy.com Bruce Mason Bruce Mason 2007-10-22 17:00:39.448 2007-10-22 17:00:39.792 Mon Nov 05 21:40:31 CET 2007