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Comment on On building singular worlds by Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Blog Archive » Thoughts on One Week | One Tool

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:25:11 +0000

[...] good options. Eric Johnson, observing One Week on Twitter, called this the power of intense “singular worlds” to get things done. Paul Graham has similarly noted the importance of environments that keep [...]

Comment on On building singular worlds by Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:49:41 +0000

That’s an interesting point, Jana–the lack of personal history is something that makes the experience even more “insular.” I can totally see how that would be the case, and it’s probably a large part of the reason that such an environment can’t really be sustained every day at work. We get too used to what each of us “does,” even though we might have had different roles within the working and personal relationships if we were all starting from scratch as you all were.

Patrick, what I meant about a specific charge is basically the decision to do some specific something–in your case, it ended up being Anthologize. For Governor’s School, it’s the charge to educate 400 gifted humanities and arts students. In football, it’s install an offense. But it’s a task that is somehow finite to the time allotted (despite the fact that its effects and efforts live on).

I like, though, that you didn’t go in with anything more specific then “build something useful.” That opens up the creative dynamic even further: you build to the skills and interests of the people involved, rather than pulling them in based on the needed skills and interests that a predefined project would dictate. I could see that it might be a little paralyzing at the outset, though: was there a moment of, “Uh, so this is all of us. What do we do now?”

Comment on On building singular worlds by Patrick Rashleigh

Patrick Rashleigh — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:33:59 +0000

Regarding what Jana & Eric said: yes, all this resonates with my #oneweek experience.

Another possible reason why the process worked well was that we were able to choose our project based on the resources available — especially regarding timeline (one week) and available skillsets (what each of the 12 could bring to the process). I don’t know the governor’s school or what “a specific charge” means in that context, but in the case of #oneweek we were basically charged with building “something useful”.

I would guess that had the project deliverable been chosen (or even more constrained) beforehand, before we knew the skills of the group, it may have been more challenging to fulfill the requirements with our given resources.

Comment on On building singular worlds by Jana

Jana — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:13:40 +0000

I think part of the magic of our process was also that (with a few exceptions) we didn’t know each beforehand. So we were not only immersed, but we also had no ‘baggage’ on our relationships with each other. As we were talking on the last day about our process, we agreed that it might be hard for us to do something similar again with each other–unless we were removed from the roles that we established for ourselves in #oneweek.

Comment on On following followers, with help from Miss Manners by A Look at Follow A Museum Day – Some thoughts and Reviews of the Twitterific Endeavour

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:50:48 +0000

[...] topic on the internet, Musematic’s Follow a Museum Day, and Cybernetik Inkwell’s On Following Followers, With Help from Miss Manners. You can of course follow the exploits of Jim and his crowd with a follow up blog post on Museum [...]

Comment on On following followers, with help from Miss Manners by Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:40:28 +0000

If I started the relationship (by choosing to follow the museum), then how would a museum be a stalker to express an interest in what I am tweeting about in return?

Personally I disagree with #followavisitor day, because museums should be expressing an interest in those who interact with them on twitter and facebook every day. In fact I think they’d look silly to need a special day for this.

Good to see the debate happening though…

Jim

Comment on Convergence or Collision? Proper Platforms for Civic Engagement by Roundup « Public Historian

Roundup « Public Historian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:54:21 +0000

[...] The Storefront Library in Boston, an experimental pop-up library as third space. Inspiring and instructive for us in the LAMiverse thinking about hospitality and civic engagement. [...]

Comment on The walls are tumbling down: my 2.0 world by Industrialization of Data - Web 3.0 – NetDynam 2.0

Industrialization of Data - Web 3.0 – NetDynam 2.0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:18:48 +0000

[...] found here: Cybernetick Inkwell So what, then, are all the technologies like mashups, XML, Java and the rest, if not 2.0? I [...]

Comment on Themes from THATCamp by kristen

kristen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:40:16 +0000

thanks for all of the helpful links! i definitely appreciate that you don’t want to rehash what others have already done!

Comment on Themes from THATCamp by Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:03:56 +0000

Hey, thanks for the kind words about the blog! Still very much a work in progress, but I suppose that’s true of most blogs (I’ll keep telling myself that, anyway).

In any case, a couple of other folks did a nice job of summarizing what the unconference (as done at THATCamp) is like. They pretty well sum up my same gushing/relieved/impressed reaction:

http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-happens-at-thatcamp.html

http://bavatuesdays.com/thatcamp-kickback-and-conversate/

The unconference notion itself has a pretty good Wikipedia entry here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference (the subsequent BarCamp link is a good description of the structural approach we took, too)

However, if after all that you still have questions about what it’s actually like, just say the word! And welcome aboard.