Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork
for some months now, i’ve been teetering between “trying” to make sCNN into “a thing” or letting it go as a main focus of my work, letting it continue more as a simpler, more personal (at least for now) weblog for those things that i hear about and want to put somewhere, but where? and to make or to tend, to work or to play?
in not chasing what “should be” here at sCNN, but rather just adding what “can be” here right now, “can be” because it’s already here on my screen, sCNN is becoming an initiative or experiment in non-efforting effectiveness. can it be both ease and effect? i suppose that’s the question that we’ve been stalking from the beginning.
along the way, i still think i’d like to start tagging things, as a way of futuring the whole thing, and continuing the modelling process, helping to feed the tagging wave that i hope is coming. what seems most important is that this space continues to respond to what we’re learning and what technologies are becoming available, rather than staying stuck on one tool or model.
sCNN remains a standing invitation to others who might want to join the process of blogging and tagging. as i go on longer, it will get easier to say what it is that really belongs in the blogspace and how the tagging works. as with anything else, the longer we go on, the better we are able to understand, do and share the “practice” of it.
in the meantime, since we started scnn, there are at least two other things that have popped up that are implementing the vision of scnn on a much larger scale that i ever could. they are the conversations at Omidyar Network and the functionality of the DropCash micro-donations facility.
the del.icio.us tagging function also leads out beyond my original vision of a blog of blogs, toward a future where scnn might simply be a blog about a tag — all the action could be very dispersed with many many using the scnn tag to point out and link to little individuals making a big difference. ever the challenge is to keep the focus on the purpose before the tools.
looking forward to raising these questions, and this purpose of more and more “little individuals” making good things happen, at the upcoming Omidyar Network capacity-building conference in Chicago at the end of this month. work and play. come join us!
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