[The Net is] the connected consciousness of the market itself. It makes markets smart by giving customers unprecedented powers, the most fundamental of which is each other via Cluetrain at Fifteen | Linux Journal. What I have always loved about Doc is how human he is. For me this quote encompasses everything the article hasContinueContinue reading “The unconsciously built connected consciousness | Cluetrain at Fifteen”
Category Archives: Openness
NYT on finding ourself in the cloud
Interesting bit from an article in the New York Times about self-tracking – this bit rang a bell in my head around humanity / culture driving technology creation to fulfil its desires. NYT Article One of the reasons that self-tracking is spreading widely beyond the technical culture that gave birth to it is that weContinueContinue reading “NYT on finding ourself in the cloud”
Affinity, Humanity and Disability.
The other day whilst reading a feed somewhere in my hundreds, I came across a link to a video .. this video in fact : I instantly felt a recognition and affinity and especially wth the subtleties in the kaos (yes, oh yes, there’s subtleties), so much so it sent me hunting for more. IContinueContinue reading “Affinity, Humanity and Disability.”
A Giant Zero kinda experience
“The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else.” — Doc Searls I think it’s a Giant Zero kinda experience on the Live Web when this happens : Oct 16 : Mike and I record our Extraordinary Everyday Lives Podcast, #055 – guest, Michael Specht. Oct 17 :ContinueContinue reading “A Giant Zero kinda experience”
Roy’s Because Effect
UPDATE: Roy was interviewed on the show about Visual Facilitation – see the youtube video here. My mate Roy Blumenthal from South Africa, who is the man behind my portrait on my lifekludger blog, has scored himself a gig as a weekly co-anchor of CNBC AFRICA’s business magazine show, ‘Kaleidoscope’ where he employs his visualContinueContinue reading “Roy’s Because Effect”
Social tools shape culture
“social tools are specifically different from other tools we use to interact in that they shape culture”Stowe Boyd
Post Industrial Context Shifting and Network Productivity
Back in 2005 after thinking about “Attention, Recognition & Context” I wrote in 2006 that I was “hung up on the concept of context” and a bit later “On context and openness” Which lead to the thinking about how I do what I do at Lifekludger, documented in the “Contexts and Clues” section of theContinueContinue reading “Post Industrial Context Shifting and Network Productivity”
Openness is great – so says Summize
Openness thoughts grab from Supernova
Here’s some interesting grabs from Twitter during the following discussion at Supernova on Openness I caught this morning. Kick-Off Discussion: The Value of Openness JP Rangaswami (BT) Elliot Maxwell (Consultant) From: @wseltzer on Wednesday, June 18th at 00:17:54 [link] To: @rafik Supernova is http://www.supernova2008.com/ — good discussions of openness and innovation From: @sarahdopp on Tuesday,ContinueContinue reading “Openness thoughts grab from Supernova”
On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice
Father Bob on Forgiveness: One was a woman from Rwanda where millions were killed a few years ago. She was from tribe A, Tutsi, massacred by tribe B, Hutu. She’d lost husband and children. She was at a “truth and reconciliation” session arranged by South African Bishop Tutu, (Church and State have a different relationshipContinueContinue reading “On Forgiveness, Openness and Justice”
People don’t scale, People Networks do.
Cross posted from Lifekludger blog I read with interest my good mate, Hugo Ortega’s UberTablet blog. Hugo was the very first guest on our Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast and, outside of my regular colleagues, has been the single biggest supporter of my Lifekludger endeavours, and indeed myself, in a substantial way – providing equipment toContinueContinue reading “People don’t scale, People Networks do.”
Share : Connect – World Of We
My friend Biff from Naked Yak wrote something ages ago I’ve wanted to reiterate here as it’s very important: Naked Yak 27/01/08 8:04 AM NakedBiff Nurturing The more we share the more we know each other, the more we have in common. In this sense, how we use the technology that is available to usContinueContinue reading “Share : Connect – World Of We”
Is Photodropper ripping of Flickr Manager – Antithesis of a connected culture?
Today I got in my delicious “for” bookmarks a link with a note that a site has appeared called Photodropper (purposely not linked to here) had appeared on the scene and is pushing a WordPress plugin that aside from a few changed variable names appears is the exact code ripped off from a plugin calledContinueContinue reading “Is Photodropper ripping of Flickr Manager – Antithesis of a connected culture?”
In Web 3.0, the best wall-less gardens will win
In light of the article in Wired and its’ call to action for a “Open Social Net” and the long discussion on this topic that Laurel, Mike and I had on our latest podcast, this quote by Doc Searls over on the Project VRM blog is very timely. Earth to walled-garden builders: You can’t ownContinueContinue reading “In Web 3.0, the best wall-less gardens will win”
CLOSEDvOPEN: Attitude and Generation gaps
JP picks up on my “Walled Hearts” post and points to the Generation factor. He writes : The median age for Too Open is probably Generation X. The median age for Too Closed is probably Generation Y. Ay, there’s the rub. It occurred to me that from the Enterprise standpoint Facebook looks very open yetContinueContinue reading “CLOSEDvOPEN: Attitude and Generation gaps”
Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?
I’ve never read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Tipping Point” but something inside me feels on the edge. Some kind of epidemic at that intersection of technology advance and human desire seems to be going down. Facebook is all at once touted as saviour and villan. Dave Slusher points out what others are thinking. Cam’s talking aboutContinueContinue reading “Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?”
Openness – Going Beyond Transparency
Openness is one of my pet things that’s been on my heart heavy for a few years and I’ve written about before. I read two things this week that conspired me to write some more. One was JP talking about his ‘self-editing’ actions when posting a list of songs he has been listening to andContinueContinue reading “Openness – Going Beyond Transparency”
The reason why we MUST NOT build walled gardens!
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace Couldn’t sleep last night and so read this essay by Danah Boyd This sentence stood out to me: “The division around MySpace and Facebook is just another way in which technology is mirroring societal values.” – Danah Boyd There exists in society too much division already -ContinueContinue reading “The reason why we MUST NOT build walled gardens!”
The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector
Over on her blog, Laurel does as brilliant job of expanding on a very important penny that was dropped and jelled at the Connecting Up Conference earlier in the week. It’s reflected in the comment I jotted down here while liveblogging. During his keynote, Daniel Ben-Horin from Compumentor made reference to the emergence of aContinueContinue reading “The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector”
Bruce Sterling in one day
One days take-aways from one days reading and listening crammed inbetween one days travel and one days work. Bruce Sterling @ IDEA 2006 * architectures of participation * mass dis-intermediated production * participative information architecture * If you cut up the present, the future bleeds through. (William Burroughs) http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000698.php Bruce Sterling @ SXSW 2007 sociallyContinueContinue reading “Bruce Sterling in one day”
Share Overlap Connect
Well it seems too much is happenning in my life at present. Which annoys me. It annoys me because I desire connection and in the world of connection sharing is key….another word I spin on that sharing meme is openness. But it takes time to share. And right now I don’t have time to share.ContinueContinue reading “Share Overlap Connect”
Craigslist, Second Life and the law – disability, society and openness.
I see via tech.meme and outlined over on law.com that the net community is struggling with issues of discrimination with a law suit that’s been filed against the popular online classifieds site, Craigslist. To fill you in from law.com: Google, Amazon.com, AOL and Yahoo are helping defend online peer Craigslist against a lawsuit that wouldContinueContinue reading “Craigslist, Second Life and the law – disability, society and openness.”
Rebooting Relationship
Looking at some of the thoughts filtering out of Reboot8, a post by Robert Paterson titled Reboot8 – Transactions or Relationships? A return to being human! caugfht my attention and just kept reinforcing my thinking on a few things. About having, not using blogs. Like I wrote last week in No-one likes to be used….ContinueContinue reading “Rebooting Relationship”
Language and Nationality
Good to see a post by Steve Gleeson and signs in it that he’s starting to get and idea of the rewards blogging offers. Steve asks “Do English Blog?” He seems to be asking about ‘English’ people (nationality) rather than English speaking. Which is strange as he lives in Australia. I’d much rather ask ‘DoContinueContinue reading “Language and Nationality”
On context and openness
“blogging is the opensourcing of ideas” – confused of calcutta. Context is something that bugs me from time to time, and features in Lifekludger. Openness is a more recent ‘fog’ to me. A couple more recent posts from around the place that have got me back thinking about context again, and openness still. In aContinueContinue reading “On context and openness”
