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H2O playlists
I'll be leading a session next Tuesday at the Symposium on Social Architecture at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. Which was a good motivation to finally publish the video I conducted when I last visited earlier this summer.
Molly Krause, leader of the H2O project, explained the benefits of playlists in academic and other learning settings. I hope to make much more extensive use of these lists in the future. Anyone interested in collective intelligence, structured data and academic curricula should check this out. The 11-minute video is 31MB in MPEG-4. (See Ourmedia page | watch video)
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November 7, 2005 at 07:52 PM in Social media | Permalink
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JD,
Thanks for sharing this interview.
Playlists have been on my mind a lot lately for how to coordinate collaborative film editing -- as well as collaborative journalism.
It was interesting to hear Krause talk about the parallels between iTunes playlists being a way to "make everyone a DJ", and how H20 playlists can be a way to share syllabi between academics -- and possibly catalyzing collaboration and cross-disiplinary research.
These playlist/syllabus camparasion can be taken a step further with filmmaking with what is know as "Edit Decision Lists" or EDLs -- which is essentially an ordered list of sound bite sequences. A playlist could be used to make film edits or remixes of existing material.
I think the H20 project demonstrates the power of playlists for being able to share knowledge that is aggregated by domain experts -- something that wikipedia's NPOV collaboration policy does not account for as well -- and that Nicholas Carr discussed in his "The amorality of Web 2.0" essay.
At the moment, journalistic news articles contain stream of facts, but if the facts were more granular, then they could be assembled in playlists that are able to track better track the associations between them.
So I see a lot of potential for how this playlist concept could be applied to citizen journalism, and being able to tap into the wisdom of the crowd. Especially how the H20 setup is currently being used to track the reputation and trust of authoritative playlists by how many people are creating deriviatives from them.
Anyway, I'm very much interesting in getting this functionality into Drupal, and plan on talking to the playlist module developers about it soon.
Posted by: Kent Bye at Nov 9, 2005 8:04:37 AM
