I've used Tweet O'Clock http://tweetoclock.com/ to find out when a given user is likely to capture a tweet. But it looks like this service will be closing soon. (It is a bit creepy, privacy-wise.)

I love the comparison of Twitter to USENET and IRC. I've often thought of Twitter as something of an update on the idea of a chat room, but "chat room" has certain connotations that I'd rather not transfer to Twitter, especially when I'm describing it to a new user.

IRC/USENET are much better examples (even though IRC was essentially just a series of chat rooms that required the use of certain software).

Hi Adam,

I think that the tools in the next few years will involve a resurgence of earlier tools (IRC, newsgroups) with new re-combinations - SKYPE WIZIQ channels, VIMEO-Tweetdeck, PREZI-Feedburner, WP -PageFlakes and various other mashups - hard to predict where it is going.

Since MAIS 601 is talking about Erving Goffmann and performance in everyday life this week, I'm inclined to ask about role, position, and context. I could identify myself as an autonomous blogger, a personal blogger, and/or an embedded blogger -- depending on which blog we're talking about. So might a blogging taxonomy apply more concretely to the blog than the blogger?

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your feedback. I admit I have skimmed Goffmann's work, but it is especially relevant to the anonymous and embedded blogger perspectives.

This is a really excellent point. At the time I developed this idea, I had first encountered Erving Goffmann's work, and thought about some of the individual roles I had taken on as a participant in various settings. I felt I was more of an autonomous blogger in some settings.

Under some conditions, though, I would have preferred to have been a private blogger, or at least, an anonymous one. It depended on the course material being worked on, and the overall role I would prefer to take.

I had the chance to "perform" in different ways with the one blog over four different semesters, and the first semester with a cohort was by far the most ambiguous for me. My take on it is one can say, "this is my private space" or "this is my public space" but I notice our roles blurring as we mix up the blogs with the roles they are supposed to play.

I could identify myself as an autonomous blogger, a personal blogger, and/or an embedded blogger -- depending on which blog we're talking about. So might a blogging taxonomy apply more concretely to the blog than the blogger?

I often wonder who is setting the conditions for the role we are supposed to blog. If an instructor has requested that students in a cohort respond to others' work on their blogs, then there is a set (as yet ambiguous) script for how these students ought to behave and interact with others. Despite this script, I have noticed some learners behave differently, some blog on their own, some blog with zeal as long as others are commenting to their posts, some blog with reticence and reluctance, others have opted out, and still others blog grudgingly - it is the same blog - but the conditions are imposed by the instructor and the extent to which a student adjusts to the blogging conditions determines how well they do for this assessed activity.

I think we do shift between the different perspectives of the taxonomoy because it involves the process of changing perspectives over time. Lifelong learning using blogs require us to move through different perspectives - it is not a one-blog--one-perspective pairing.

I will follow up with a post describing my thinking about the various blogger roles based on Jungian archetypes.

Glenn

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