And of course, this kind of diagram certainly oversimplifies a very complex system in a complex space. Distributed Community Manifestoes Technology Web 2. Following last month's release of the iPhone 3G , along with the launch of the App Store , and what Brian Fling called the " first true Mobile 2.0 ," everyone around here is talking about the emergence of the mobile device as a critical facet of web strategy. My colleague Anders Rosenquist, who is seriously deep on mobile, presented a first take on the company point of view on mobile strategy at a recent meeting; another

For example, an object on a home page might be the "newest" object in a system, or it might be a rotating series of "newest" objects by each "author" with "home page" authority. What I think is frequently overlooked, though, is behavioral data helping to create value in social systems. And in complex, emergent and self-organizing systems, behavioral metadata is especially powerful, because in those kinds As an information architect, I work with metadata a lot. I

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I was reading Clay Shirky’s book "Here Comes Everybody" over the weekend, and came across another version of his great analysis in measuring participation distribution in social systems. Rather than a Gaussian Bell Curve, a more precise model is used based on a Power Law Distribution . In fact in social systems "averages" really It plays on the concept of Pareto’s principle of 80% of the work/people comes from 20% of the work/people, and also the participation inequality description from the 90-9-1 principle . Basically, "in

This leads usto re-evaluate spatial systems, and discuss how ``place, rather than``space, can support CSCW design. Observing the way that space structures actions and interactions--the``affordances of space [Gaver, 1992]--many designers have usedspatial models and metaphors in collaborative systems. The desktopmetaphor of single-user systems has been extended to a metaphor ofdesks, offices, hallways and cities. Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in CollaborativeSystems Steve Harrison* and Paul Dourish+ *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center +Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Lab (EuroPARC) harrison@parc.xerox.com, dourish@europarc.xerox.com This is a draft of a paper which subsequently appeared in the Proceedings of CSCW96 (pub.

already knew Eric as the author of a wealth typology , which explains the urgent need for wealth acknowledgement systems that can recognize the kind of not-directly monetizable wealth that is created by open communities, driven as they are by use value, and not by exchange value. the p2p monetary infrastructure, that we need just as much as a p2p ICT infrastructure, a distributed energy grid, and a distributed manufacturing system. Yesterday, I presented the insights and projects of Eric Harris-Braun, who is working on a meta-currency platform. I

Username and access dependent systems (sometimes some collaborative spaces require to have certain type of additional account name to be fully functional eg. Some systems are invisibily switched on and off between people (eg. Some group systems are owned and centrally controlled by one member who made an account Distributed course landscape case 3 course moodle ...Tags: I have been busy writing the descriptions of three iCamp cases and looking back of what was actually important, what we can bring at the more general level.

a System (Restated for Bernanke and Geithner) System diagram Intervene in a System , in 1997. change in an organization, group, project, program or system. system as consisting of water pipes, valves (taps) and reservoirs. Here's BLOG Places to Intervene in in

The above comes from a great 38-page overview essay by Kevin Carson where he reviews current trends to more distributed manufacturing, often based on open source design, as well as a new type of machinery. * Siefkes is wrong only in referring to producers under the existing corporate system as “market producers,” since absent “intellectual property” as a legal bulwark to proprietary design, the market incentive would be toward designing products that were interoperable with other platforms, and toward competition in the design of accessories and replacement parts tailored to other companies’

Médaille to explain how he sees the connection between the p2p approach and distributism. This, in a nutshell, is the idea behind the economic philosophy known as “Distributism.” It is simply the idea that economic and social systems work better when productive resources, such as land, tools, and education, are widely distributed throughout the population. I asked the distributist author John C. This is an excellent and easy to read introduction: