Starting a new track

I’m not sure if the start of this blog is confirmation or denial of Alan Levine’s observation that edu-blogs seem to have a lifespan of about one year. It does represent, to me, that my interests have changed sufficiently that I need to recreate myself. Previously I blogged at Technica (hosted at Typepad, a service I still recommend to anyone interested in doing some serious blogging), where I rambled on aimlessly discussed and analyzed some issues of interest in the area of educational technology. My attention has shifted towards emergent phenomena – like blogs, wikis, and virtual communities. The seed of this interest began in an entry on the technica blog back in February, along with Brian Lamb‘s book recommendation based on that entry (Thanks Brian, I’ve just started reading the book and it definitely resonates.)

So, here’s the start of another trail by this semi-autonomous agent within a system of small pieces loosely joined. It would be sheer hubris to assume that I’m going to reveal the grand emergent pattern that’s coming out of this stigmergic communication system, but I hope that my trail adds usefully to the system.