Who’s Making Knowledge - Today’s Buzz
Posted on September 4, 2006
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Who’s making knowledge? See the post below (below, below - follow your cursor to the wikipedia post). Apart from that I picked this up from Robin Good’s site and after it I can tell you why it is baloney:
“On September 9, 2006, 112 of the world’s most compelling thinkers, artists, writers, scientists, social entrepreneurs, philosophers and humanitarians from around the world will come together in Berlin, Germany, as guests of dropping knowledge.
Seated around the worlds largest table in historic Bebelplatz square, these inspiring individuals, renowned for their lasting creative or social contribution, will engage with 100 questions out of the thousands donated to dropping knowledge by the international public.”
Around two months ago I put to net knowledge expert (eeks an expert in net knowledge, impossible!) Henry Jenkins the probability that knowledge is too uncertain now to pin down and if you had to say where it came from it would be from the amorphibian web - the anonymous masses. This is Henry’s response.
“The grassroots communities of fans, bloggers, and gamers are playing an active role in documenting, analyzing, predicting, and responding to media change, operating alongside of and in many cases, doing a better job than, traditional sites of learning and research.”
To paraphrase Henry: What we know has one sure element - we can’t be sure about it because several million people are passing judgment.
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