Serendipity and user profiles

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This morning I've been seeing who shares my profile interests in the Mo'time community, taking advantage of Mo'times new user profile feature. With 14 members, travel seems to be the most common denominator, although none of us seems to blog specifically about travel. Five of us share an interest in coffee - and isn't it interesting that of the 5, 3 are involved in some way or another in academia? Hmmm. The learning interest lead me to Jean, who is also using her blog Musings to support her Masters degree in education, and prefers chocolate to coffee for her caffeine fix. And it lead to sentenceguy, who examines patterns in sentences in his blog Good Sentences - prompting me to search for a connection between his patterns and the lifelong learning patterns I've been writing about,  and evoking Vygotsky's connection between language and learning. Besides interests, Mo'time also lets you indicate a geographical location in your user profile. So far, there are only four tagged Canadians among us, but I'm the only representative from Ottawa and Ontario.

I like people tags far more than the content tags with which I've been way too preoccupied about here, here and here. Perhaps it's their serendipitousness: you never know whom you are going to meet, but you are open to the possibilities. On the other hand, I have a purpose when I click on content tags, usually a problem that I need to solve, and for that need they continue to disappoint.

posted by: Shanta at 07:05 | link | comments (2)
resources, context, lifelong, learning

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#1  10 April 2005 - 12:06

 

Have you noticed that only one person is interested in "being"? Too bad there isn't a second person with that tag, so that they can exist together.

DJGroovySlug

#2  10 April 2005 - 17:50

 

i recently updated my profile too and found that interests section very useful.

milktea

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