Social Computing
Technology Review had a great (very long) article in their August issue about social machines. It’s basically saying that we’re using all the recent innovations of distributed systems and mobile computing to stay much more attached to a real-time social fabric that extends beyond shouting distance. I really like the article on lots of levels, and it struck a nerve with what I’m doing here. I’m just not sure where to go with what I’m thinking about.
The basic idea: I want to encourage collaborative communication and community threading on topics I’m interested in.
Because my interests go all over the place, I think this means that I should split my blogs and keep tighter focus such that I’ll draw the right collaborators to the right areas. What I mean is this: I’ll probably use chrisbrogan.com to be the home base and most general of my sites. I’ll use it as the preview for the targeted blogs, as well as a set of social “tags” for all the folks who might want to contact me or stay in touch with my day to day. chrisbrogan.com will stay the place to touch base on what’s new and improved with me. Then, I’ll target my posts for one of three separate blogs and you can choose to read one or all of them. That way, if you’re here to talk about fitness and nutrition, you don’t have to read about wireless computing, and that kind of thing.
I’ll drill down into the following three areas on my topic-specific blogs:
*fitness and nutrition
*self-improvement and leadership
*design,usability, and technology
I’ll probably experiment with a few other collaboration styles, too. I am interested in things like wikis, site tagging, RSS reading, etc. I’m certain to much with that as I go along. Stay tuned.
Your thoughts and feedback are appreciated, as always.
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