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Being Online: Purposeful narration of
professional lifeCrosstalk Seminars
Jon UdellMicrosoft
Dec 5, 2007
Doug Engelbart
What is this a picture of?
The blogosophere
Messages to spacesInteractive surface areaData finds data, people find peopleTriangulationManufactured serendipitySYNDICATION!
Syndication-oriented architecture
Global Research Library 2020
Mashing up GRL2020 feeds
Reading the combined feed
FeedsEveryone a producerEveryone a consumerEverything can be:
SyndicatedFilteredResyndicated
Automatic syndication
In Facebook:
No effort required to make you aware:That my birthday is upcomingThat I have begun using a new applicationThat I just bought a coffeemaker on Overstock
The effects of syndication without the geeky apparatus
The spectrum of self-publishing
Social bookmark: almost effortlessTwitter “tweet”: lightweightBlog posting:
more substantial potential long-term value
Narrating the work
To make connectionsTo establish reputation
The Hollywood model
To educate othersApprenticeship
Aspects of work narration
Personal information management becomes social
Answering questions with URLs
Principle of keystroke conservation“I don’t have time to blog”
Modes of narration
Text, obviouslyBut also
AudioVideoScreencast
Video narration
Sean McCown: I sat down last night and made a video of the restore
procedure for one of our ETL processes. It was 10mins long, and it explained everything someone would need to know to recover the process from a crash.
Transmission of tacit knowledge
Wharton School on knowledge transfer Direct contact allows for the transmission of tacit or non-codified
knowledge that may be difficult to put in writing
Counterexamples from screencasting: Jim Hugunin’s unconscious knowledge of Python Chris Gemignani’s NYTimes infographic in Excel
Case study of a narrator
“every day I experience life in the world of healthcare IT”
Some other narrators
Michael Bartongene expression and open notebook science
Nicole Caulfieldcolored pencil drawing techniques
Mike Leavittu.s. secretary of health & human services
Thomas Mahonbespoke savile row tailor
Personal vs institutional identity
John Halamka’s identities• Harvard: Chief Information Officer and Dean
for Technology at Harvard Medical School• NEHEN (New England Health Electronic Data
Interchange): ChairmanHITSP (Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel): HITSP
• geekdoctor.blogspot.com?
Lifebits
Lifebits as a service
A secure lifelong digital archiveI control:
Namespace Access Syndication to partner servicesKind of like HealthVault…
Objection: Dear Abby
Objection:Univ. of Mich. faculty/grad students
Q: Why not use a blog to narrate your work?A: "I wouldn't want to publish a half-baked
idea."
Objection:Cliff Lynch
The tyranny of self-promotion “I don’t like the idea that people feel they
have to game their online reputations.”
Objection:Mike Caulfield
Self-reinvention is an American traditionI want to be able to reboot my identity
Objection: John Seigenthaler
Objection:Allison Stokke
Your professional life story
You can write it yourselfWhether or not you do, others willWhat story do you want to tell?
What is the best way to publish it?
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