Some time ago, Howard Rheingold asked what the members of the CooperationCommons would propose as innovations for the Delicious social bookmarking site. My suggestion was that we should have a tool to link related tags together, as different people choose different tags to denote similar knowledge objects. So a tool that would look for tags… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2007"
From Open Source Scooters to Johannite Gnostics (P2P in Australia 3)
I had a very interesting conversation with Tim Mansfield, who designs distributed social media infrastructures with a stress on its social, and not just technological, dynamics. I was very impressed by his thorough understanding of the matter, and very much intrigued by his blog , which I led you discover by yourself . Next in… Continue reading
Limitations of the current peer review model in science
M. Guedon has a good summary of why the current peer review model is limiting the spread and updating of knowledge: Excerpt: 1. The present system is too rigid, too unwieldy to permit such small-scale, yet potentially crucial interventions. To make the proper corrections, one would have to republish and perhaps even go through the… Continue reading
From Democracy to peer governance. Australia 7-10th August
Idealistic vs. naturalistic approaches to social change (p2p in australia 2)
We continue our report on our Australian encounters. At the Ark Group conference on knowledge management, where we gave a keynote and a workshop. We particularly appreciated the lecture of Dave Snowden (see his Cognitive Edge blog). Interesting for me was his approach to change dynamics, distinguishing idealistic and naturalistic approaches. My definite feeling is… Continue reading
Lawrence Lessig blasts expropriation of creators by Lucasfilm in the Star Wars remix project
An important editorial by Lessig in the Washington Post , in which he blames the advice of lawyers for the practice of ‘sharecropping’ creators. A significant excerpt, calling for a new approach by the legal profession: “Upload a remix and George Lucas, and only Lucas, is free to include it on his Web site or… Continue reading