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Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p100

“…community of practice, a group of people who coverse about some shared task in order...

Jan 30th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p99

“the activities of the amateur creators are self-reinforcing. If people can share their work...

Jan 30th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p98

“filter-then-publish…rested on a scarcity of media that is a thing of the past. The...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p91-3

“fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention, more arrows pointing in...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p90

“now that the cost of posting things in a global medium has collapsed, much of what gets...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky)...

“…there is no obvious point where a blog…stops functioning like a diary for...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p85-7

“most user-generated content isnt “content” at all, in the sense of being created...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p79

“the spread of literacy after the invention of moveable type ensured not the success of the...

Jan 29th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p67-8

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE “because social effects lag behind technological ones by...

Jan 28th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky)...

RESISTANCE TO PROFESSIONAL OBSOLESCENCE - “What happens when the cost of reproduction and...

Jan 28th

“This newly-realized importance of the network reminds me of...”
— The Connected Economy -...

Jan 27th

“Knowledge Management refers to the management of the...”
— Dr Fuzzy

Jan 26th

“Many organizations struggle to balance the conflicting...”
— Wellsprings of Creation:...

Jan 26th

“Process is “how work should be done.” And...”
— Jack Vinson

Jan 26th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky)...

TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS “…situations wherein individuals have an incentive to damage the...

Jan 25th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky)...

LADDER OF GROUP UNDERTAKING 1. Sharing/participating/collecting - low barrier or demand to take...

Jan 25th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p47

“for the last hundred years the big organisational question has been whether any given task...

Jan 25th

“My general response to people who ask the question How do we...”
— Dave Snowden

Jan 22nd

Definitions of camaraderie on the Web:

SOURCE - http://gog.is/define:camaraderie chumminess: the quality of affording easy familiarity...

Jan 21st

Definitions of acculturation on the Web:

“acculturation” may be a new name for my blog, still thinking about it SOURCE -...

Jan 21st

“If you want to point to more proximate harms, it would be very hard to argue, for example,...

Jan 19th

“…there is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter...

Jan 19th

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work -Thomas Davenport and Larry Prusak

Jan 18th

“i never teach my pupils; i only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can...

Jan 18th

“We once heard knowledge management likened to herding cats....”
— Chris Collison and Geoff...

Jan 18th

“You can’t manage knowledge – nobody can. What you can do is...”
— Chris Collison and Geoff...

Jan 18th

“…the new technologies “focus not on capturing knowledge...”
— Nicholas Carr on Andrew McAfee

Jan 18th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p46-7

COASEAN LOGIC GETS STRANGE “small decreases in transaction costs make business more...

Jan 14th

“And they believed that just about everything you needed to know existed in a document...

Jan 14th

“Efficiency programs such as Six Sigma are designed to identify problems in work processes—and...

Jan 11th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p44-5

WHEN TRANSACTION COSTS FALL OR COLLAPSE (Cosean Floor) - large firms increase in size - small firms...

Jan 11th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p41-4

COASEAN CEILING - HIERARCHY DOESNT SCALE “…not only does managing resources take...

Jan 11th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p35

“the basic capabilities of tools like flickr reverse the old order of group activity,...

Jan 9th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky)...

WHY ORGANISATIONS? “running an organisation is difficult in and of itself, on matter what its...

Jan 9th

“we use the word ‘organisation’ to mean both the...”
— Here comes everybody (clay...

Jan 8th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p18-9

MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION COSTS Economics says “people respond to...

Jan 8th

Literate Knowledge Worker

“They have the ability to use the best sources to gain the information they need, which are...

Jan 8th

“Knowledge grows like organisms, with data serving as food to...”
— Weiss

Jan 8th

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the...”
— Peter F. Druker

Jan 8th

Here comes every body (clay shirky) p16

…”the centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way...

Jan 4th

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p18

…”forming groups has gotten a whole lot easier” (due to the webs architecture of...

Jan 3rd

Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p17-8

…”new technology enables new kinds of group-forming” - we now have the online...

Jan 3rd

Emergence (steven johnson) p222-3

MANAGEMENT AS FEEDBACK FOR ADAPTIVENESS …”emergent systems can be brilliant innovators,...

Jan 3rd

Emergence steven johnson p196-9

.”Social imagination is missing in 99.99 per cent of the world’s living creatures”...

Jan 3rd

Emergence (steven johnson) p178

.”the designer, in other words, controls the micromotives of the player’s actions. But...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p169

OBLIQUE CONTROL “…obey rules that we define in advance, but those rules only govern the...

Jan 2nd

“when we come across a system that doesnt work well,...”
— Emergence (steven johnson)...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p160-1

It’s not the medium or the message, it’s the rules or feedback loop that “govern...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p152-7

CONTROL DOESNT SCALE FOR QUALITY (OR EFFECTIVENESS) -slashdot.org- 1. A website for friends to share...

Jan 2nd

THOUGHTS ON CAS AND PEOPLE

Humans r not ants or cells, we will never cluster as a perfect CAS as we have minds of our own that...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p150

NEGATIVE FEEDBACK SCARCITY IN THE ONLINE WORLD “in the face-to-face world, we are all social...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p147

ORGANIC GROWTH “…to maintain diversity and balance, the organism must not exceed the...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p144

.”the newsworthiness of a given story cant be judged by the play the story is getting on the...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p138-40

Attempt to make a complex system ‘adaptive’ by implementing negative feedback into the...

Jan 2nd

Emergence (steven johnson) p137-9

FEEDBACK IS GOOD FOR BOTH GROWTH AND SELF REGULATION-EG OF THE LATTER “…emergent systems...

Jan 1st