Fritter, er, I mean twitter, away your day. Fret about being Web 1.0 or Web 2.0. I'll focus on Life 1.0 -- as in I've got one, I like what I do, and I want face to face interaction not byte to byte interfacing. I could give a rat's arse about anyone who's dopey (and disrespectful) enough to sit in a seminar and at not have the decency to, at least, feign interest in what they've paid good money to hear and I've taken time to prepare.
Anyone up for starting a monthly Bullamanka newsletter written long-hand, type-set for letterpress, and distributed via post? I'll be the guy standing in front of the "Twitter Screen" projector ...
-----Original Message-----
From: The listserv where the buildings do the talking on behalf of David West
Sent: Tue 5/5/09 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] Web 2.0 and conservation
My business partner recently attended the Museums and the Web
<http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/> conference in Indianapolis.
During the keynote lecture, there were 2 screens - one for the keynote
speaker's presentation, and the other running a continuous Twitter
update from conference attendees.
I understand that during the one hour keynote presentation, there were
either 45 or 72 (can't remember which number he mentioned) Tweets. The
keynote speaker evidently said part way through his presentation
something along the lines of "It is very disconcerting speaking here
today, and seeing your eyes all swivel left every minute or so".
My partner also said that most of the Tweets were quite irrelevant (and
inane), including things like "I've left my glasses in my room" and "I'm
glad to be at MW2009".
A resounding demonstration of what not to do at a conference, from the
sound of it.
On a different note, this is the conference which had time allocated for
"unconference sessions
<http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2009_unconference_sessions> ".
Cheers
David West
Executive Director
internationalconservationservices
T: +61 (2) 9417 3311
M: +61 (411) 692 696
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From: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gabriel
Orgrease
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2009 11:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [BP] Web 2.0 and conservation
The topic here at Dan Cul's weblog is use of Twitter (limit 140
characters per message) as an online media for substantive discussion
re: conservation, not necessarily histo presto, but relevant:
http://dancull.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/the-great-conservation-twitterco
n/
Opens with a nice Dilbert cartoon.
"One major problem with the discussion that wasn't really raised, or at
least not widely discussed, is that we were only 26 individuals we don't
represent even a very small percentage of the profession. Without a much
larger discussion it's hard to ascertain whether we are just the first
to be discussing this way, or what the wider the consensus actually is.
In fact it could be, for whatever reason, that the wider field think
that conservation should have no involvement in Web 2.0 at all. We need
to work out a way to feed these discussions to the wider audience and
gather feed back on the wider perceptions and opinions. In order to do
this I believe we need to tackle the first issue... that of access."
I would suggest that they also avoid talking about the conservation of
semi-heritage outhouses.
This Twitter exploration reminds me very much of the reluctance of folks
on Preservation-L to have ANY conversation whatsoever.
The discussion was initiated as a focused reading of Collaborating in
the Public's Domain by Richard McCoy:
http://ceroart.revues.org/index1159.html
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