\u00a0 As I continued to navigate through the blog and reflect on the idea of text and technology, representing our need to expand our horizons and create more outlets for our creativity, I discovered this poem. I would like to know how you \u00a0feel about it. I learnt more about meerkats. They can dig as much dirt as their own body weight in a couple of seconds! I suppose we can only equal that when we truly master the technology. I suppose viruses are like jackals which are the only creatures that can conquer us. My computer was attacked but I am Back!<\/p>\n
Community Creatures<\/strong><\/p>\n A colony of bloggers secure in their topic<\/p>\n ranging in size from massive to microscopic.<\/p>\n The lesser ones surround and support the great<\/p>\n who set the direction for the others to debate.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A flock of forums grazing on knowledge<\/p>\n their shepherds guiding them to fresh foliage.<\/p>\n Free to chew the cud and relax within their walls<\/p>\n trusting the guardians to banish the jackals.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A hydra, a multi-headed oracle, it must be a wiki<\/p>\n tackling all problems from the simple to the tricky.<\/p>\n The multiple heads give it so much knowledge you see.<\/p>\n The only problem is… they do not always agree.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A mob of social bookmarkers, much like meerkats<\/p>\n take turns looking out and deciding what’s good to peer at.<\/p>\n Hoping none of the sentinels is actually a pretender<\/p>\n directing them all according to their own agenda.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In the distance, a herd of social networkers<\/p>\n dashing all over the place. There’s no room for shirkers.<\/p>\n Without any shepherds they all, every day,<\/p>\n have a role to play in keeping predators at bay.<\/p>\n \u00a9Adam Rulli-Gibbs 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 As I continued to navigate through the blog and reflect on the idea of text and technology, representing our need to expand our horizons and create more outlets for our creativity, I discovered this poem. I would like to know how you \u00a0feel about it. I learnt more about meerkats. They can dig as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}