in CCR 711, Network(ed) Rhetorics
To quote, Edmonds, et. al.: “If the trends we identified above continue, the future will include virtually everyone using a technology evolved from today’s blog software to manage and share information about topics of their choice in a dense network of personal, corporate and aggregated information services.” To rif on this…
This week I shared articles with friends that I had found or received from others. One article made it here to my blog, French service. Until now, another article, The Basics, I circulated to friends just through e-mail, which also resulted in a friend sending me a link to a website she surfed, treehugger.com. I also forwarded a copy of a group email I received from Ellen at the Unity Church of Dallas regarding their guest speaker this week, Victoria Moran. Before now, I hadn’t consciously thought much about the rhetorical decisions I made in choosing which stories to blog and which to email.
In my future blogland, it would be nice to have some sort of PIM that acted as a dashboard. From one central dashboard, I could choose my content, audience, preferred delivery method(s) (email, blog, im, etc.), and time of delivery. This product would also have spellcheck, word count, synonym suggestion, and dictionary definitions. It would also be nice to have different text windows so that I could cut and paste text and modify it for each audience. Plus, if this hypothetical software could also track which of my contacts open or read what I had forwarded, so much the better. Oh, and perhaps future iterations of this product would allow my contacts to assign their own preferred delivery method to override how I originally sent it. And, then of course, this product would work on my MAC, and would interface with a product like EndNote and/or DEVONthink (more via stevenberlinjohnson.com) so I could remember, write, cite, and think more better.
Of course, this would also mean that I’d have to tell all of these people about my blog. :-)
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