Aggregate This! The great strength of emergent media forms is also their great weakness. I mean, of course, the extreme decentralization that now characterizes ?the broadband flatland.? It is now relatively easy to produce and distribute content. But it also proves a challenge to find one?s way around in a zone that is somehow expanding, crowded, and borderless, all at once.
With such difficulties in mind, then, I want to propose a kind of public-works project. The time has come to create a map. In fact, it is hard to imagine things can continue much longer without one.
At very least, we need a Web site giving users some idea what landmarks already exist in the digital space of academe. This would take time to create, of course. More than that, it would require a lot of good will.
But the benefits would be immediate ? not just for university presses and academic bloggers, but for librarians, students, and researcher within academe and without.
