Gardner Campbell posts today about the availability of Jon Udell's keynote talk at the University of Mary Washington's 2006 Faculty Academy. Jon Udell is one of the best reads on the web. A perfect example is his latest post today about push lawn mowers. In the space of about seven paragraphs he easily discusses and demonstrates commons based peer production...
there will be increasing numbers of folks who will package their knowledge and experience in video form, and publish it freely, just because they can. Everyone's an expert on something. If its quick and easy to document some aspect of that expertise, and if doing so makes you a global authority on that topic, people will choose to do it...
If I'm right about where this is headed, the video-sharing sites will soon offer more than cute animal tricks, stupid people tricks, and experimental artwork. They'll start to be windows that open on many areas of knowledge and experience, the sharing of which will accelerate the production of new knowledge and the deepening of experience...
Note to the 2007 Atlanta NECC program committee... Get this guy booked...
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