don’t think we’re entirely to blame though – even journalists get a bit lost navigating the minefield of value systems, ethics and privacy in the new age of openness and public discussions. Actually wherever you have passion and writing and people being open and vulnerable about their beliefs, you have a dangerous mix. Julie Posetti wrote an interesting One of the rules of journalism that gets broken, unthinkingly, by us online is the name and shame convention . Journalists name senior executives for their naughtiness but tend to keep  junior members of

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/Message « Blogs Go Mainstream: Advertising Toilets | Main | Stowe Boyd » September 05, 2007 The Architecture of Sociality: Building In Openness by Stowe Boyd A lot of discussion boiling recently about openness in social applications (like the Bill Of Rights movement manifesto and supporting comments , and Brad Fitzpatricks Thoughts On The Social Graph . I offer a thought about deductive openness, by which I mean a path of low resistance for developers of application. Rather than striving for a theoretical openness, based on high-minded principles, I believe that developers will likely taking tactical, well-understood and intuitive paths toward adopting common services.

In other words the P2P philosophy aims to create streams of open-share knowledge available for the whole community. In this frame, urbanists, social workers, NGOs, environmental artists, graphic designers, minorities, and inhabitants work together in open-share projects related to urban issues such as atlas, courses, digital platform to collect social feedbacks, spatial strategies as well as formats for new social policies. A layout for this approach has been Some of our friends in Finland, such as Agatino Rizzo and Michail Galanakis , are organizing a conference in Helsinki in May 2009 ( Urban Studies Days , University of Helsinki, 7-8th May), to discuss the evolution towards new forms of urbanism, that will be strongly impacted by p2p influences, as explained here : “Insofar, we believe that in Helsinki as in Tallinn a new methodological horizon has been traced in the field of Urban Planning .We

The people behind the OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) movement say it’s time for the 140-character, publicly-subscribable format pioneered by Twitter to become an open standard, in part because, as last week’s attack showed, Twitter is as vulnerable as it is vital. Pushbutton technologies—including PubSubHubbub (seriously, that’s its real name), an open protocol developed by programmers at Google—let sites notify you whenever they’ve been updated. Twitter — or, rather, the idea of a pervasive, public short messaging network — could be too important to be left under one entity’s control.

Million And Goes Open Source Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 28, 2008 11:00 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » The San Francisco based social groupware provider Grou.ps announced today that it has secured a Series A round of financing for $1.1 has also announced that it is open sourcing a restricted version of its code under the Affero Public License . ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Grou.ps

Article: On the Open Design of Tangible Goods. 8220;Open source software development has received considerable scholarly attention, much of which is based on the presumption that the ‘open source model’ holds some lessons of broader applicability. This paper focuses on the open source development of tangible objects, the so-called open design. By Christina Raasch, Cornelius Herstatt and Kerstin Balka. R&D Management.

July 5, 2009 This is a collection of links and tweets success than open ones, I am engaged in a battle of ideas with those who BLOG Links of the Week -- July tweets since the start of the month (I've been away), so it's much longer longer than usual.

Interestingly, I interviewed for the job of opening the NY office for Optaros a few years ago, but the position didn’t really fit my personal requirements at the time. Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Twitter ID Website XHTML: You can use these tags: Notify me of followup comments via e-mail « Previous Post: Urban Computing and Its Discontents Next Post: Activity Streams, Prologue »

If you are following open source developments related to social networks, communities, and/or the semantic web, these three efforts (Community Equity, FOAF+SSL, and Kiwi) should be of interest: CommunityEquity Community Equity Open Source Milestone 1.1 The data integration will make use of existing technologies like Linked (Open) Data. released http://digg.com/u17asN 6:10 PM Jul 8th from twhirl