Slide 1 |
Platonic Wikis and Subversive Social Interfaces |
Jonah Bossewitch | |
Plone Conference | |
Vienna, Austria: September 20, 2005 | |
This talk will consider Plone as a preeminent platform for deploying Social Software in a variety of configurations. We will also explore the affordances that a Plone environment fosters, and the expanding role of Software Architecture as a leading art. Finally, we will examine the ecology of the Plone project itself in light of this analysis. | |
Innocent Questions |
Explain the differences between a blog, a wiki, and a forum? | |
When should a community use which and why? | |
Is plone a wiki? | |
Is a wiki a CMS? | |
WWJD? |
Modalities of Social Software |
wikis and blogs and forums and tagging (distributed classification) | |
proliferation and diffuse nature of these concepts |
The Platonic Forms |
wiki's workflow, blog's workflow, etc | |
It is all just rules and policy applied to content | |
What's interesting are the variations and riffs around these familiar forms |
Tagging and Folksonomies |
Tagging as a social activity | ||
source: http://dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html | ||
The Perfect CMS |
The workflow is arbitrarily configurable | ||
If it is truly arbitrary, might as well make it deliberate | ||
Impact Space: | ||
Situated Within This Space |
Environments which foster one end or another | |
One blog per person vs. shared blogging | |
A Plone w/ open workflow as a wiki, Plone's news, etc |
Environmental Affordances |
Perceived Plone Landscape |
Actual Landscape |
Plone Process |
Plone Community |
Plone Ecology |
Sustainable Plone Evolution |
Case Studies |
Educational Multimedia Case Constructor (http://emcc.ccnmtl.columbia.edu) | |
Post-Graduate Life-Long-Learning Plan (http://pgd.ccnmtl.columbia.edu) | |
PloneStickies (http://plone.org/products/stickies) |
Appendix |
Social Software |
"A new generation of socio-technical systems that facilitate human expression, communication, and collaboration.Ò (Ulises Ali Mejias) | |
social interfaces - mediating human-human interaction (Joel Spolsky) | |
ergonomics:ui::ui:social interfaces | |
Examples |
Software ÒArchitectureÓ |
affordances | |
leading art | |
behavior/worldview |
Completing the Circle |
f/oss as inflection point | |
values of developers embodied in features of system | |
e.g. cc licenses |
Wiki Prayer |
ÒPlease, Grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, | |
The courage to edit the pages I can, | |
And the wisdom to know the differenceÓ |