Room With A View

While attending David Warlick’s Gaming Session at Learning 2.008 last week it struck me that what I write and what most people write on their blogs is in danger of becoming info noise. It’s like white noise. With white noise, discrete sounds are present but they blend together so that each  sound is indistinguishable from the others. In the same way, thousands of blog posts blend together to make them indistinguishable–info noise.

These thoughts were further solidified with the NY Times article How Many Web Services Can One Person Use?

Tagging may help. I think David nailed it when he started his session by giving us the tags he’d like us to use when blogging or tweeting about his session. It may not save our writings from being lost in the general info noise of the web but it would at least help those attending the session find each other’s work. It would help create what Ewan McIntosh calls “small passionate communities.”

I’m back to Beijing which means Edublogs is blocked again! grr… I don’t know what they did at Learning 2.008 but it was nice to be able to get to my blog again.