The setting of standards of digital training to assist qualification bodies, employers and employees alike was also a recurring theme.

What is clear is that the simple fact that as a group we could all meet and engage in such a democratic and engaging discussion despite our very different backgrounds, fields, ages, and levels of knowledge and seniority, speaks volumes about the levelling nature of the internet. Where bloggers can have the same impact as newspaper editors, and pictures of cats get more hits than breaking BBC news.

The rules of ‘canon’ are being re-written, and as one member of the group mentioned, technology is having a destabilising effect on business models and social standards. This doesn’t need to be a negative affect, and all present at the unconference appeared aware and excited about the posibilities this presented.

Thanks for this. I think I mostly understand what you are getting here. Talking about disparity, and the example you used of the original source becoming out of date, it made me think about the etiquette of regular tweeters and bloggers. I find it a common thing for people who do tweet, and do blog and use social networks regularly tend to link to the original source as a force of habit but also to almost pass on the flow of traffic to their site. I’d be interested to understand more about the proposal you were making about lines of data traffic coming together? I was a little confused here. Something about pingbacks on wordpress sprung to mind and how channels become linked in this way.

The disconnectivity you were talking about is definitely something that needs addressing, as people working together often create a larger amount of knowledge and information and not knowing what each other is doing whilst doing the same thing should be addressed…how? I don’t know. When we were discussing yesterday about how the jobs of the future were not even invented yet, I began thinking will we start to see a rise of internet linkers…humans fully employed to link people/groups to similar people/groups through social network platforms? It already happens but what if it was to happen on a larger scale…random thought.

Creating more platforms for linking sake is perhaps not the answer. I’d be interested to hear more about your user experience ‘research’/quest for knowledge. I’m a designer interested in user experience, perhaps not just for the internet but I do have knowledge in this field and techniques I use to get to a final design.

I’m not sure if any of this makes sense, I’m better at drawing what I think than writing it..

Sarah x