Shit happens

"Shit happens, we're all different, our civilization or businesses are fragile but having an effective platform on which to carry out the endless working things out that is necessary is something precious and worth advocating and protecting."

That comes from Working things out by Euan Semple a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, shit happens and the ongoing process of working it out is precious. (In fact working things out between our paradoxically fragile and resilient selves is a pretty good definition of learning for me.) But I wonder what Euan had in mind about the "effective platform". I think he might have been referring to blogs as the platform.

I wish I could remember where I read someone say that the difference between Web1.0 and Web2.0 is that in Web2.0  the community is the platform, not the tool or the technology. Ignore the references to Web1.0 and Web2.0, it's the metaphor of the platform I'm talking about.

The community is the platform and tools like blogs (can) give voice(s) to different people in that precious process of working things out.

I think that's a really important focus to bring up over and over and over again. The community is the platform not the tools or technology.

Comments

[Euan Semple]

I was thinking of the whole intraweb dooda thingy as what we could use to work things out.

[Beverly Trayner]

Wonder how I'd translate the whole intraweb dooda thingy!