Comments on: Youtube and the Age of Reason? http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/27/youtube-and-the-age-of-reason/ Igniting Ideas Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:18:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mseyfang http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/27/youtube-and-the-age-of-reason/#comment-404 mseyfang Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:09:42 +0000 http://litfuse.wordpress.com/?p=95#comment-404 Good to see you mention your 'friend of friend' (longtail) example alongside the staggeringly popular (short-head) American politicians on YouTube. While it is easy to see the value of 'New Media' as an adjunct to western politics, a more subtle and profound shift is happening beneath the surface of the read/write web. Imagine what might happen to 'the government' if your colleagues (and thousands of others) voiced their 'crazy weird schemes for saving the murray' as podcasts, blogs and videos. Sprouting these wild ideas as bits of text, image, audio and video on the internet might look about as intelligent as a bunch of ants wandering around - but could also produce something as effective for survival as a termite mound! This type of <a href="http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/30/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-updated-summary/" rel="nofollow">stigmergic</a> <a href="http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/stigmergy-%e2%80%93-rss-ants-my-brain-and-the-readwrite-web/" rel="nofollow">interaction</a> might just turn a few things upside down. Fang - Mike Seyfang Good to see you mention your ‘friend of friend’ (longtail) example alongside the staggeringly popular (short-head) American politicians on YouTube. While it is easy to see the value of ‘New Media’ as an adjunct to western politics, a more subtle and profound shift is happening beneath the surface of the read/write web.

Imagine what might happen to ‘the government’ if your colleagues (and thousands of others) voiced their ‘crazy weird schemes for saving the murray’ as podcasts, blogs and videos. Sprouting these wild ideas as bits of text, image, audio and video on the internet might look about as intelligent as a bunch of ants wandering around – but could also produce something as effective for survival as a termite mound! This type of stigmergic interaction might just turn a few things upside down.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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