Comments on: Gatekeeperology http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: purple motes » the Internet brain http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/comment-page-1/#comment-70554 purple motes » the Internet brain Mon, 21 May 2007 02:02:09 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/gatekeeperology/#comment-70554 [...] Internet is like a global brain. That global brain, like the one in your head, includes hierarchies and forms of top-down control. At the same time, the most general decisions about the goals of the [...] [...] Internet is like a global brain. That global brain, like the one in your head, includes hierarchies and forms of top-down control. At the same time, the most general decisions about the goals of the [...]

]]> By: Borderland » Blog Archive » Links in the Chain http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/comment-page-1/#comment-1409 Borderland » Blog Archive » Links in the Chain Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:29:41 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/gatekeeperology/#comment-1409 [...] I don’t normally post about technology tools because that isn’t my area of expertise. I’m more aligned with English teachers than technology specialists. But I can learn from anyone. It wasn’t very long after I began blogging (about a year ago) that I noticed there is a blogger food chain. Chris, who regrettably (for me) seems to be retiring from public life, commented on this a while back in a post called Gatekeeperology. Links are the currency that makes blogging work as a knowledge resource. The reason I’m writing on Borderland is to bear witness to my experience as a teacher in a confusing era in which political pressure on teachers and students is working to narrow our focus, while ironically, technological advances are opening new possibilities for making meaning. Sharing classroom experience and threads of ideas with others who can help us make sense of it all is immeasurably valuable. It’s good to be linked. [...] [...] I don’t normally post about technology tools because that isn’t my area of expertise. I’m more aligned with English teachers than technology specialists. But I can learn from anyone. It wasn’t very long after I began blogging (about a year ago) that I noticed there is a blogger food chain. Chris, who regrettably (for me) seems to be retiring from public life, commented on this a while back in a post called Gatekeeperology. Links are the currency that makes blogging work as a knowledge resource. The reason I’m writing on Borderland is to bear witness to my experience as a teacher in a confusing era in which political pressure on teachers and students is working to narrow our focus, while ironically, technological advances are opening new possibilities for making meaning. Sharing classroom experience and threads of ideas with others who can help us make sense of it all is immeasurably valuable. It’s good to be linked. [...]

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/comment-page-1/#comment-523 D'Arcy Norman Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/gatekeeperology/#comment-523 yeah - good post! A-List is a relative thing, I think. It's not about popularity, but content and connections. That is the coolest thing about this Web 2.0 / Read/Write Web stuff - we don't have to just sit back and consume what Established Big Media deems to label as "good stuff". Long tail, and stuff. Exciting times... My own personal A-List has over 100 members in it, including you, Chris. yeah – good post! A-List is a relative thing, I think. It’s not about popularity, but content and connections. That is the coolest thing about this Web 2.0 / Read/Write Web stuff – we don’t have to just sit back and consume what Established Big Media deems to label as “good stuff”. Long tail, and stuff. Exciting times…

My own personal A-List has over 100 members in it, including you, Chris.

]]> By: Doc Searls http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Doc Searls Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:26:20 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/gatekeeperology/#comment-522 Good post. Thinking the open pasture is subjects, not people. Think about the A-list subjects. Celebrity. Scandals. Politics. Sports. Fashion. Few of the blogosphere's A-listers are in the same zip code with any of those. Huffington, maybe. No time to look. I'm thinking a time will come when leverage in a subject will matter more than leverage as a URL. More later on my blog. Just wanted to say that much here. Thanks! Doc Good post.

Thinking the open pasture is subjects, not people.

Think about the A-list subjects. Celebrity. Scandals. Politics. Sports. Fashion.

Few of the blogosphere’s A-listers are in the same zip code with any of those. Huffington, maybe. No time to look.

I’m thinking a time will come when leverage in a subject will matter more than leverage as a URL.

More later on my blog. Just wanted to say that much here.

Thanks!

Doc

]]> By: Doug http://chrislott.org/story/gatekeeperology/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Doug Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:21:55 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2006/02/16/gatekeeperology/#comment-519 I wish I could remember how I tapped into this discussion...oh, yes, it was this morning when I was scanning <a href="http://weblog.burningbird.net/2006/02/12/no-i-own-the-new-gatekeepers/" rel="nofollow">one of the blogs</a> I have my Bloglines feeds that had piled up - because I don't read them regularly. So it was complete coincidence that I knew what you were talking about when I began reading this post. Most of us probably constitute a network of mini-mutual admiration societies because we are focused and lack the time to devote loads of attention to what "everyone else" is doing. I read the A-list blogs only sporadically, and mainly out of a distanced curiosity similar to what I bring with me to NFL football and CSI on television - both experiences I could easily do without; good for tapping into the cultural mainstream. I knew when I chose the name for my blog that I'd never get any large amount of attention with it, but I'm grateful for the audience I <em>do</em> have. I'm flattered to have made your list, Chris, especially noting the others who are on it. Count me in as content to be merely one more voice singing into the void. Gatekeepers don't affect the goats that graze in open pasture. I wish I could remember how I tapped into this discussion…oh, yes, it was this morning when I was scanning one of the blogs I have my Bloglines feeds that had piled up – because I don’t read them regularly. So it was complete coincidence that I knew what you were talking about when I began reading this post. Most of us probably constitute a network of mini-mutual admiration societies because we are focused and lack the time to devote loads of attention to what “everyone else” is doing. I read the A-list blogs only sporadically, and mainly out of a distanced curiosity similar to what I bring with me to NFL football and CSI on television – both experiences I could easily do without; good for tapping into the cultural mainstream. I knew when I chose the name for my blog that I’d never get any large amount of attention with it, but I’m grateful for the audience I do have. I’m flattered to have made your list, Chris, especially noting the others who are on it. Count me in as content to be merely one more voice singing into the void. Gatekeepers don’t affect the goats that graze in open pasture.

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