What do the people who collectively lable themselves ‘left’ believe, in the aggregate? But the result is not likely to be anything I believe, nor is it very likely to be anything a majority of left-leaning people believe, unless it is defined at such a level of vagueness as to be uninformative. But a response to what? MORE >>

Excerpted from the DSG blog: As austerity bites, as social divisions increase, the reaction of workers, those who can’t find work and those who don’t work will be to see the internet, a place they live and work in as first nature, as a fitting place for everyday struggle. So how might the June 30th strike play out online? MORE >>

It’s actually about all these things, "design" needs to be sweet, people need to be willing to give it a go, but they will do this moreso if you make the tools irresistible and in-the-flow…kind of like you can’t do without a remote control for your TV. Hutch calls this Social Software 2.0 In Social Software 2.0, MORE >>

have never met anyone who admits to this for themselves, but I have often heard people wondering if their bosses were really as stupid as they pretended to be. So why would we think that organizations are any different from people? But yes, organizations are different from people. Hold on, that looks like cultural change. MORE >>

In the best cases, the socially-embedded human being is empowered by the P2P framework to create free communities based upon diversity. Bauwens summarizes the difference that I discuss here in other terms. Science requires specialization, and its applications in fields such as engineering, medicine, etc. Examples are numerous. MORE >>