This weekend I was going through my Twitter stream and saw something I wanted to reply to by Jeremiah Owyang. He asked:
To which I responded:
To which he responded:
Therein lies the rub.
If “Twitter = fragmented”, then you could say Weblogs = fragmented, Forums = fragmented, Email = fragmented, etc. etc. For me, as a wiki person, it was odd to me for him to ask that I move my reply from one fragmented system to another fragmented system.
The only community tool that I know of that can counter the fragmented nature of the web itself are Wikis, they can be awesome at convergence. For example, on a wiki if I see the same conversation or information on two different pages, I can easily merge or link the pages.
In a fragmented world, we often want to draw people into our fragment. While in a wiki, it’s easy to put information you want in the place that you want. When you find it in another place – link it, merge it – plain old converge it.
p.s. – I did place the info in the comments section of a weblog post, I hope it was where he wanted it.