Cool - hopefully I can make the next one. I'll be doing a program on twitter for librarians, so I'm in the process of formulating a how-to, as well. People struggle with figuring out how this stuff can be of value, especially when they log in for the first time and have no idea what to post. (No! We don't care what you had for lunch!) It's a great tool for speculative thinkers.
PS: Just for fun, go to youtube and search for Twitter Whore - a great example of what NOT to do. : ) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Scoles Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 9:58 PM To: r-spec Subject: Re: R-SPEC January: The Futurology of Social Media & Networked Life Yeah, I'm sorry, too. When I originally proposed this topic, I hadn't formulated the idea very well so didn't want to talk about it much; then things got holiday-y, and I didn't remember that I'd agreed to do this until Alicia reminded me. So, no notification. So, some people I'd like to have been there won't be. Anyway, I may want to come back to social media for a future meeting. I'm thinking of a second version of this that's more practical: How can we USE this stuff to enhance the process of getting and nurturing ideas. Look at how people are actually using Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio.us (RIP?), etc -- practical parts (how do you not choke on the firehose?) and more conceptual stuff (aren't people afraid of giving up their ideas to other people?). I have an outline, which would probably change, but which would at some point involve taking a look at writers' & thinkers' blogs, Twitter streams & Facebook pages to see what they're talking about and how they interact with the medium & one another. (FYI: William Gibson on Twitter is @GreatDismal. In tweets, he refers to his wife as "Mrs. GD.") On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Pat Rapp <[email protected]> wrote: Rats! I'm working until 9 that night. Great topic. Sorry to miss it. : ( From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Scoles Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 3:19 PM To: r-spec Subject: R-SPEC January: The Futurology of Social Media & Networked Life At this Tuesday's R-SPEC meeting, I'll be looking at the futurology of social media & networked life. Which is the bigger deal: Flying cars & jetpacks, or ubiquitous personal mobile phones? Living on the Moon, or continually broadcasting and localizing ourselves here on Earth via Twitter & Foursquare? 20 minutes from NY to Paris, undersea by rail -- or kids in Sri Lanka teaching themselves molecular biology with the help of "grannies" in Edinburgh? Going to a virtual world holographically -- or bringing a virtual world into our own space, with that mobile phone? I'll try to position us in our augmented and socially-networked present, present some thoughts on who did and didn't "predict" where we find ourselves (and how), and maybe we can all try to figure out where we might be going. Hope to see you there! -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:r-spec%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:r-spec%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
