Stowe Boyd’s presentation “Web Culture, and the New Ethos of Work” was a mishmash of different ideas. I didn’t know how to summarize it, so here’s just a quick list of different ideas that came up in the presentation:
- Global village is an amplification of what’s in our mind. The Web is the most obvious representation of this.
- The future of work is that people will become more and more like artists, said Marshall McCluhan.
- Web culture is very open, but it’s hard to get in tight knit groups. (editorial note: Just like high school!)
- Established order of blog reputation makes it difficult to get recognized.
- While it can be exclusionary, it’s very inclusive. People can draw you in and you’re quickly a participant.
- How come Obama isn’t asking the Web who we want as his running mate?
- Tentativeness changes as employees start adopting Web tools.
- Better ideas come from more ideas. Old way of hashing things out in a physical room usually results in only one or two people dominate the conversation. The Web community allows for more people to open up and there are more ideas.
- People in the Web world wear many hats and the hats change every day.
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