Web 2.0 activity became frenetic in 2008 and while many web services came and went in the flurry of choices, others weathered the snowstorm to emerge as popular and influential connectors.
Technorati is one these.
The site explains its purpose – founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, we index more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content.
From a learning perspective, its amazing to know that people around the world are sharing their knowledge and unique insights through their blogs, but finding the good stuff that serves a learning purpose out there is the challenge. Technorati helps to bring a little bit of order to the wonderful chaos.
A few years ago CWA folks were invited to attend a conference in NZ which had a focus on education in the next decade. We were asked to consider four OECD developed scenarios (PDF) which were presented in an easy to understand “what if” way. It was a simple and effective approach, and required us to actively engage our imaginations as we explored and immersed ourselves in what seemed to be very feasible possible futures.
In this coming year, CWA will be exploring the roles that scenario-building and story-telling can play in imagineering the future. Could be fun!
As usual, this year’s Animfx in Wellington was a fascinating mix of topics and people, reminding us that this city is packed full of creative talent.
Some of the sessions I attended had a big focus on 3D. For example, guest speakers signalled likely growth in 3D movie releases as production and post-production technologies become more flexible and multiplexes begin to upgrade their projectors. An intriguing bi-product of the upgrades is that some cinemas overseas are beginning to offer beamed-in, live presentations of 3D-enhanced events – such as major sporting events and powerhouse opera performances.
So hang onto those 3D glasses!
