UBCWiki: SmallPiecesLooselyJoined/AboutSmallPieces

Colloboration via the net does not necessarilty require monolithic, expensive tool suites that aim to do everything under one umbrella. We will share and demonstrate the use of readily available, mostly free, discrete sets of "small" and "loosely joined" technologies - weblogs, wikis, instant messaging, audio/video chat. The loose joining means that how they are connected are not necessarily in the programming of the software, but the ways people can use them in a social context that is an environment of dynamic, changing relationships and connections, rather than the rigid, limited ones defined by computer code...

Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and D'Arcy Norman will be presenting a very interesting session at the NMC 2004 - New Media Consortium 2004 Summer Conference. They are looking for participation by others who will not be at the session. I will be taking part in a video chat session during the session.

I like the idea of encouraging and experimenting with the use of free/low cost and readily available technologies such as weblogs, wiki's, and chat. I also like the philosophy behind this experimentation... Maybe they can add a tool such as Flickr to the mix. More later...