I love that it’s constantly changing. For now. It’s still pretty unpredictable, like the midst of a great big game — like the kind of games that Calvin & Hobbes played. It isn’t just the outcomes that change; our boundaries and rules keep changing too, without much notice. And we can change them (or at least [...]
Tagged as: authority, expertise, information, internet, knowledge, learning, lifestreaming, medium theory, social media, technology, twitter
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How much do I love Jacques Barzun? The exemplary historian and teacher, proponent of the Great Books tradition, Dean of Faculties and Provost at Columbia University for over a decade, who also graced the cover of Time magazine for a feature on American intellectuals, etc, etc, etc… wrote this about amateurs: A world of professionals [...]
Tagged as: amateurs, expertise, higher education, history, jacques barzun, learning, professionalism, professions, universities
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Selection is a natural; so is categorizing; so is ranking; so is list-making. We owe a lot of great things to the human tendency to rank & classify. We wouldn’t have science (and therefore we wouldn’t have a whole bunch of other things)… Think of biology and chemistry. Unfortunately, it also means discriminating. A list isn’t so much about [...]
Tagged as: classification, discipline, expertise, mastery, networks, process, selection, signalling, social media, storytelling, systems, twitter, twitter lists, web
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With so many people claiming to be social media experts we just as often hear “there are no social media experts.” There certainly are a lot of people who can generate a whole bunch of verbiage, but social media presents such an all-encompassing, massive and dynamic shift that the “social media expert” label makes about [...]
Tagged as: careers, discipline, epistemology, expertise, knowledge, professions, social media, society, web
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