(thanks to Washington Post http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/sc/2009/03/11/
A cartoon of my byline updated for twitter - that has made my day!
So I am thinking of five possibilities here, in increasing order of ‘volume’ and belief :
1. Tree falls in forest - noone hears it - does it make a sound?
2. Tree falls in forest - someone without a mobile Twitter-ready device hears it - do we know it made a sound?
3. Tree falls in forest - someone with a mobile Twitter-ready device hears it and tweets that s/he heard it fall - do we believe it fell?
4. Tree falls in forest - someone with a Twitter and camera ready mobile device takes a pic and tweets the Twitpic - do we know it made a sound?
5. Tree falls in forest - someone with with a Twitter and vidcam ready device takes a video with sound and tweets it - do we now believe and know that it made a sound?
O ye of little faith!
6 responses so far ↓
1 Emma Coleman // Mar 13, 2009 at 2:33 pm
How zoomed in is the video? How do we know it’s in a forest?
2 Ben Light // Mar 13, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Regarding point 5: Or… is it all one big set up, like the moon landing ;o)
I really need to have a look at your connectivism post too - actually, I’ll do it now!
Ben.
3 AJCann // Mar 16, 2009 at 4:33 pm
“@stephenfry - did you hear about the tree?”
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6 Alan Ireland // Mar 17, 2009 at 9:43 am
That tree didn’t simply fall; it was felled. And the chainsaw certainly made a noise.
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