A Tale of Aggregation

Information resources for this post:
LIBR559M Module V Aggregation Ecclesiastes 1: 1-11 & 3:1-11

Mash-up of Beth
Daughter of Elizabeth
Matriarch of Overlook Boulevard

Sheer futility, Beth says. Sheer futility:
resistance is futile! What profit can we show for all our, social networking under the gaze of Internet.

A generation goes, a generation comes, yet
Internet stands firm forever.
Facebook rises, Facebook sets, then to its place
Facebook speeds and there it rests.

Southward goes Google+, then turns to the
North: Google+ turns and turns again back to
its “circle of friends” goes Google+.

Into the Aggregators go all the social networking tools,
and yet the Aggregators are never filled,
and still to Internet their goal the Aggregators go.

All bits and bytes are wearisome. No avatar can say that computers have had
enough virtual learning environments because…
What was augmented, will be tagged.
What has been linked will be accessed again.
and there is so much NEW under Internet.

There is an Aggregator for everything
and a time for every Aggregator under Internet.
A time for gathering,
A time for organizing,
A time for information professionals to take the lead.

A time for integration,
A time for a single view,
A time for a unified stream,
A time of affordance is the social media dream.

A time for Learning Management Systems,
A time for Moodle,
A time for Tapped In,
A time for Drupal a space as neat as a pin.

A time for Personal Learning Environments,
A time for Instapaper,
A time for a Second Life,
A time when it will b2evolution.

What do people gain from the efforts they make?
I contemplate the task to aggregate.

All that Internet does is appropriate for its time,
but although Internet has given us connectivity
we can grasps neither the beginning
nor the end of what Internet does…