This Serendipitous Blogosphere

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


I guess it borders on a vanity search, but I do have a bunch of Google Alerts created to see when things related to my online life show upon the Net. (No Alerts of your own? Try it. ) I monitor things like "Serendipity35" and devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/, "NJIT" et al.

One that showed up recently was to a link at newtechtribe.com/educational-technology/. They linked to my "What's in a name?" posting (thanks) but what caught my eye on the page was another link that said Wesley Fryer posted a photo on his Flickr account on "The IDC Test for Educational Technologies. Innovation, Differentiation, and Collaboration: The 3 key elements required for a worthwhile educational technology." Here's the "photo":


His name seemed familiar and his Flickr photo/profile reminded me that he writes a blog I read http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ on educational technology (also a podcast).

Some people say that the blogosphere is incestuous or cannibalistic or nepotistic - we praise and link to our blogging brothers and sisters, copy up chunks of other posts and paste them in our own blogs, and pull images from other sites.

I prefer to think of blogging as serendipitous (a phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for). I am always finding new blogs to read, people I know and people I'd like to meet and interesting things to pursue via trackbacks to this blog and by monitoring incoming traffic.

Tim O'Reilly has recently suggested that we need a Bloggers Code of Conduct. Besides, the unenforceability of such a code, I'm OK with the notion. At least, his post has generated conversation on blogger conduct.

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