{"id":7,"date":"2005-02-18T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/02\/18\/nighline-asked-why-do-you-come-to-th"},"modified":"2005-02-18T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:32:40","slug":"nighline-asked-why-do-you-come-to-the-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/02\/18\/nighline-asked-why-do-you-come-to-the-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighline asked, &#8220;Why do you come to the meetings?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a14'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">After all we have all this super woopie do e-comm gear. Several answers Here&#8217;s the first in three parts.<\/p>\n<p>1. At MIT they say that getting an education there is like getting a<br \/>\ndrink from a firehose. [MIT was significant in the invention of the net<br \/>\n&#8211; the IMP or primordial router was invented there. ] Getting a drink<br \/>\nfrom the Web [or it&#8217;s blogosphere subset] is even harder. Talking<br \/>\nto another person or small group can help. Ordinary Websites are fairly<br \/>\nstatic. They respond to their visitors in limited controlled<br \/>\nways.&nbsp; They are mostly one to many.<\/p>\n<p>2. But Nightline sez, you can talk to people on the net. Yes you can<br \/>\nbut each tool has different properties. Blogs are basically one to<br \/>\nmany, but they do allow more interaction from visitors.&nbsp; Forums<br \/>\nare more democratic. E-mail is truly bilateral. They allow more<br \/>\nsymmetric communicaton. People have more freedom to attune their<br \/>\nmessages to their recipients. BUT all&nbsp; these tools have a<br \/>\nsignificant time delay. They are interactive, but not immediate [some<br \/>\nare unsychronized -email, blogs and forums &#8211;&nbsp; IRC is just a bit tedious.]<br \/>\nThey are all relatively uninflected e.g. no tone of voice.<\/p>\n<p>3. Face to face exchanges between people are geographically limited.<br \/>\nYou have to be there. Face to face is both&nbsp; interactive [modulo<br \/>\ncivility] and immediate. It includes tone of voice and body language.<br \/>\n[Could bilateral video do this? Maybe some day.] The essential skill of<br \/>\nthe new age is not to master a specific tool or tools, but to<br \/>\nunderstand their different limitations and the relationship between<br \/>\nthem*. More important is to understand the talents and limitations of<br \/>\nyour audience and yourself. And finally the relationship between the<br \/>\npeople and the tools. Berkman Center for what?<\/p>\n<p>*The boundaries between different tools are at the moment too sharp. We<br \/>\nneed software that allows communicants to move more freely between<br \/>\ndifferent modes. More in a future post.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all we have all this super woopie do e-comm gear. Several answers Here&#8217;s the first in three parts. 1. At MIT they say that getting an education there is like getting a drink from a firehose. [MIT was significant in the invention of the net &#8211; the IMP or primordial router was invented there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}