Comments on: “…hardly available… despite significant community interest.” http://smcmaster.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/hardly-available-despite-significant-community-interest/ Contributing to the Forgr conversations. Sat, 17 May 2008 17:29:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: severnspoon http://smcmaster.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/hardly-available-despite-significant-community-interest/#comment-12 severnspoon Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:24:12 +0000 http://smcmaster.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-12 A hub has to abide all of the constraints we place upon the physical problem of support. It has to be readily available and people have to know about it. Education and broadcast. I think the wiki is a very good thing and this sort of community knowledge base is important. What turns news into history? Once upon a time it was likely memory. This is perhaps still true, but archives create such a thorough database of our shared knowledge that history is becoming more about data mining. We need the data to mine. The wiki contributes to this. Now a community hub is as much about emotion as history. A place to grieve, a place to share. If there were a place where the community felt it could express public emotions, without tampering with the historical mechanism, that would be interesting. How does a community remember itself? More questions than answers I'm afraid. A hub has to abide all of the constraints we place upon the physical problem of support. It has to be readily available and people have to know about it. Education and broadcast. I think the wiki is a very good thing and this sort of community knowledge base is important. What turns news into history? Once upon a time it was likely memory. This is perhaps still true, but archives create such a thorough database of our shared knowledge that history is becoming more about data mining. We need the data to mine. The wiki contributes to this.

Now a community hub is as much about emotion as history. A place to grieve, a place to share. If there were a place where the community felt it could express public emotions, without tampering with the historical mechanism, that would be interesting. How does a community remember itself?

More questions than answers I’m afraid.

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