I’m taking a break from marking A1 (it’s going well; should be done by the weekend) to blog about blogging.<\/p>\n
I’ve tried traditional blogging in some serious way at least a half-dozen times, with it never sticking for more than a year. \u00a0 The activity always seemed far too time-consuming and undirected. \u00a0I also always felt strangely guilty in pretending to be a producer when I wasn’t a consumer (meaning that there’s nobody’s blog – or newspaper column, etc – that I’ve ever ‘followed’ even casually). \u00a0 The motivations of altruism and vanity are never sufficient for me: I want greater value for my efforts.<\/p>\n
The same has become true for microblogging\/tweeting – I now use Twitter as a communications plumbing tool without actually browsing\/consuming there in any significant way.<\/p>\n
I created one of my current companies, CrowdTrust Technologies, to obtain better ‘clickstream’ value from the continuous \u00a0browsing\/commenting\/ideation activities of digital professionals. \u00a0Our flagship product, Gleanr<\/a><\/strong>, is about seeking the networking value of Facebook for global knowledge professionals. \u00a0It blends bookmarking, microblogging, tweeting, and more substantial creative works into a simple, instant streaming\/channeling metaphor. \u00a0 Our pitch is that you’re blogging for yourself primarily, with tangible, measurable benefits WRT to presence, reputation, influence and professional development. We’re still in prototype stage, but here are a few recent example ‘gleans’ from me related to learning and technology that you might find interesting:<\/p>\n KhanAcademy<\/a><\/strong>: a streamed article, with comment, from The Economist about an apparent emerging proof of the value of learning technologies in K-12 schools.<\/p>\n