Boy, typing sure gets slow when you’re doing it self-consciously to avoid using one thumb.
David is absolutely too kind, but we sure had a good time. He’s also absolutely right about irritating people by calling “expertise” into question. That was a (politely) heated exchange. He alludes to a discussion over whether the Web is an “information space” or a “conversation”; one interlocutor pressed him on the extent to which the distinction constructed a false [bad thumb! stop typing!] dichotomy. David pointed out that in discussions with some information-science types, especially some of the folks who invented the Web, it’s a useful distinction to emphasize the ways the Web isn’t just for technicians doing research, but also for teenagers musing about the vicissitudes of modern existence. Maybe everyone’s right on this one; maybe it’s just that information spaces are a lot more interesting, richer, wilder than we had ever imagined.
Things I want to add: reflections on “Open Source Education”; expertise, anti-intellectualism, and the nature of the Web; privacy and education.
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