January 2011
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Post-Bureaucratic Realities & Work-Relevant...
This list was written from the perspective that these are features of Web-based life written into the social DNA of the Facebook Generation — and mostly missing from the managerial DNA of the average Fortune 500 company. I don’t ascribe to generation-based generalizations when examining digital society - This seems more like a list of essential realities for modern life. ...
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Help Lawrence Lessig pick the title of his next...
Help me pick the title of my next book. In October 2011, TWELVE will publish my book about the corruption that is our government. I’m in the process of deciding what the title to that book should be. I’d be grateful for your help. If you’ve seen my work, I would appreciate your help. If you’ve not, the 18 minute clip below is the essence of the book. In any...
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The Tyee – Don't Take Digital Innovation for...
Don’t Take Digital Innovation for Granted In Canada, powerful actors want to make the Net more expensive, less open. By Steve Anderson, Yesterday, TheTyee.ca Locking in ISP profits at expense of creativity. … Canadians need to understand the value of online innovation. Innovators in Canada need to be, well, more innovative. They need to reach more...
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Complex Adaptive Systems: Why Hierarchy is Dead
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -Laurence J. Peter … For organizational leaders, these lessons of leadership should become clearer as our society’s complexity approaches infinite dimensions. Building competence at the individual level, encouraging employees in enhancing their skills and acknowledging the value of each person...
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The State of Wikipedia [video] - Narrated by Jimmy...
via youtube.com The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it’s also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.
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Dot Earth | What's Missing From Our 'Cognitive...
This is your brain on words: It’s clearly a pretty hard-wired system. But can we find ways to use what’s locked in our skulls to better effect? I’ll be writing more soon on that broad question, with a hint of my thoughts provided in a recent Tweet. Some variant on noosphere is clearly nigh. In the meantime, there’s a rich discussion of aspects of this question on Edge.org, a forum for all...
TEDTalks | Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk | Our...
Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP’s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more … and too often, we’re left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein’s question: What’s the backup plan? via...
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The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the...
via youtube.com
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All that glitters isn’t social media gold | The...
All that glitters isn’t social media gold 13 January 2011 | By Mark Ritson There have been times over the past seven days when it seemed every major business story was pointing to exactly the same brand. A global hoax spread across social networks that falsely claimed one of the biggest online brands was about to be pulled by its disillusioned founder....
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Douglas Rushkoff » Me, Losing It | A rant about...
Me, Losing It I lot of people have been asking for this one, so here it is. I gave a talk last year at a conference that turned out to be less about social media than social marketing. I got really tired of listening to brand managers talk about their “Twitter strategies,” and by the time my closing keynote came around, it felt like I had watched the corporatization the net recapitulated over the...
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Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle | Clay Shirky |...
Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it’s a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view about how the world works, Wikipedia shouldn’t even exist, much less have succeeded so dramatically in the space of a single decade. The cumulative effort of Wikipedia’s...
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Information is Beautiful | Debtris (Animated)
via informationisbeautiful.net
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All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary...
via theatlantic.com
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TED Talks | Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
via ted.com
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How the Oxford English Dictionary started out like...
via wired.co.uk
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The Mirrorcube - Treehotel
via treehotel.se An invisible one-way glass cube hotel room in a tree.
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Clay Shirky on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary -...
Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary By Clay Shirky Jan 13 2011, 1:33 PM ET 8 There are so many things to celebrate about Wikipedia, on the occasion of its 10th birthday, starting with its incredible breadth — where else would you go to find out who Big Bill Neidjie was, or where Lower...
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TED Talks | Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to...
via ted.com Respectful conversation entered with the intent to understand is a good start towards dialogue.
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Cliff Nass: The Man Who Lied To His Laptop -...
via videosurf.com Clifford Nass is a professor at Stanford University and the founder and director of the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab. The lab’s experiments with students at the university have led to some troubling discoveries about the brains of chronic multitaskers. This talk is on his research with how humans interact with technologies. Ie. People...
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Openleaks - Daniel Domscheit-Berg / Presentation...
via youtube.com An introduction to the OpenLeaks system and the idea behind it. http://openleaks.net
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Howard Rheingold - Smartmobs Revisited
via youtube.com In 2002, Rheingold published Smart Mobs, exploring the potential for technology to augment collective intelligence. Now, 7 years later, Howard revisits for the first time the points he made in the book and checks what has and has not happened. Notice: due to photo license restrictions, the slides from Howard’s talk are not available.
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Using Twitter, Diigom Delicious, DEVONthink, &...
via screenr.com
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HBR | Clay Shirky on Cleaning Up Online...
Here’s something you might not have noticed about the internet: Some of the conversations taking place there are less than civil. …a rhetorical tragedy of the commons is occurring in many forums. All the participants have an incentive to have good conversations, but each participant also has an incentive to get the most attention. This tension suggests that increases...
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Crap Detection 101: How to Distinguish Good and...
via oreilly.com Crap detection aka Critical (evaluation) skills are the most important thing one can learn. Knowing the answers are no longer important; they keep changing. Knowing how to find the best answer amongst the crap is all that matters in the 21st century.
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Mashable | Why Marketing Threatens the True...
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back, out this week in paperback from RandomHouse, as well as Program or Be Programmed from ORBooks. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. … The Potential for True Peer-to-Peer Culture Illustration by Leland Purvis from Program or be Programmed. With the web — and more specifically, with...
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Project Information Literacy's interview with...
Howard Rheingold: “Crap Detection 101: Required Coursework” Project Information Literacy, “Smart Talks,” no. 5, January 3, 2011 If one word captures Howard Rheingold’s writing about the political, cultural, and social impact of new technologies, that word is prescient. In 1987, Howard was one of the first to write about the...
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Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture...
Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture In-Depth Aanalysis We’re often told that the Internet has destroyed people’s patience for long, well-thought-out arguments. After all, the ascendant discussions of our day are text messages, tweets, and status updates. The popularity of this endless fire hose of teensy utterances means we’ve lost our appetite for consuming—and creating—slower,...
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How to have more insights - Slow down, let your...
Your Brain at Work Using Neuroscience to Improve Daily Life by Dr. David Rock How to have more insights Neuroscience shows us how to have more insights Published on September 5, 2010 …while it seems unlikely we can ‘control’ when we have an insight, it’s now very clear that we can dramatically increase the likelihood that an insight emerges. My...
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Colayer | The Transparency Paradox: Good for a...
The Transparency Paradox Transparency is good for a group - and why Actors fight against it via ex.colayer.com