{"id":454,"date":"2009-09-06T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/overly-connected\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:53:00","slug":"overly-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/overly-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Overly Connected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MKpITdo04co\/SqQht83eq7I\/AAAAAAAABcM\/qR3ISxc2gWU\/s1600-h\/phrenology20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 270px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MKpITdo04co\/SqQht83eq7I\/AAAAAAAABcM\/qR3ISxc2gWU\/s320\/phrenology20.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378460928303868850\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span><br \/>That question came up recently in conversation and I really resent it because after I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffcain\">tweeted<\/a> the question, which automatically sent it to <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"homepage\">Facebook<\/a>, that had my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/\">Blackberry<\/a> buzzing away from friends who had forwarded the question to <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/\" title=\"FriendFeed\" rel=\"homepage\">Friendfeed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plurk.com\/\" title=\"Plurk\" rel=\"homepage\">Plurk<\/a>; I realized that I really didn&#8217;t have enough <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/time\/\">time<\/a> to answer the question adequately. Some responses went into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\">Google<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/\">Reader<\/a> which upped my unread items by another dozen. <\/span>Other responses were from friends who made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">films<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastpeople.com\/\">podcasts<\/a> of their take on the question.  I did some research through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> and some of my contacts in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/\">Delicious Bookmarks<\/a> which led to a long conference call via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\" title=\"Skype\" rel=\"homepage\">Skype<\/a> with researchers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.nic.in\/secondary.htm\">India<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regeringen.se\/sb\/d\/2063\">Scandinavia<\/a>. Our conclusion after running a survey in <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a> and conferring with some friends in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"LiveJournal\" rel=\"homepage\">LiveJournal<\/a> was that we are probably not overly connected but we are holding off a final judgment until the images of our jointly edited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gliffy.com\/\">concept map<\/a> of the question are shared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\" title=\"Flickr\" rel=\"homepage\">Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/\">Twitpic<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\" title=\"Picasa\" rel=\"homepage\">Picasa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/096b8e88-aec5-4a99-a610-4e19395472cc\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=096b8e88-aec5-4a99-a610-4e19395472cc\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That question came up recently in conversation and I really resent it because after I tweeted the question, which automatically sent it to Facebook, that had my Blackberry buzzing away from friends who had forwarded the question to Friendfeed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/overly-connected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connectivism","category-socialmedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}