June 16, 2006
Forever BETA
By
Katherine Dodds
Hello. When I first envisioned the possibilities of Hello Cool World, the web wasn't making things as easy as they are right now. And even before I even started trying to do we are trying to do, all to often, there I was, all heady with crazy-sounding visions of what could be done, but when I talked to progressive leaning folks this excitement was dampened by omnipresent back-ground whine about "access".
Fast Forward. That was not long ago. The access-activists have made significant practical inroads, assisted by the punctuated evolution of the web and its tools. And while the “digital divide” has not completely evaporated into virtual thin air, the “have or have nots” seem to have been superceded by the “want or want nots.”
Likely those reading this blog fit in with those who desire some kind of online interaction, community or even just information satisfaction.
But as things made possible by technology become, faster, cheaper, easier it becomes more important to ask why are we doing this? This is something I ask a lot around my office, my 'hood, and amongst my Hello Cool World cohorts.
What do we want to happen because of it?
I think as we launch this blog it will be interactively answered!
In the meantime, may we stay forever beta... :)
Kat Hello. When I first envisioned the possibilities of Hello Cool World, the web wasn't making things as easy as they are right now. And even before I even started trying to do we are trying to do, all to often, there I was, all heady with crazy-sounding visions of what could be done, but when I talked to progressive leaning folks this excitement was dampened by omnipresent back-ground whine about "access".
Fast Forward. That was not long ago. The access-activists have made significant practical inroads, assisted by the punctuated evolution of the web and its tools. And while the “digital divide” has not completely evaporated into virtual thin air, the “have or have nots” seem to have been superceded by the “want or want nots.”
Likely those reading this blog fit in with those who desire some kind of online interaction, community or even just information satisfaction.
But as things made possible by technology become, faster, cheaper, easier it becomes more important to ask why are we doing this? This is something I ask a lot around my office, my 'hood, and amongst my Hello Cool World cohorts.
What do we want to happen because of it?
I think as we launch this blog it will be interactively answered!
In the meantime, may we stay forever beta... :)
Kat
Tag(s):
Blogging,
Hello Cool World,
Technology
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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