Posted in businessmodel, paticipation, Social Software on Jul 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
They made it! The group of people from AssignmentZero I blogged about some time ago have their articles published on Wired. Though it is easy to see that it has been a mixed blessing in results it is also easy to see the enthusiasm people have in doing this. One of the conclusion they have [...]
Posted in diversity, long tail, recommandation on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is such an interesting example of how our new production of information can go wrong:This is an interview with Christine Boutin, the French minister of housing, about the conspiracy that George W Bush is behind the attack on the WTC towers on 9/11. A small translation of the first part goes like this: I [...]
Posted in businessmodel, governance, Politics, privacy on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
When I have an appointment at an organisation that is very security conscious (e.g. Police, Thales, the home office and others) I normally have to show an official ID like driver license or passport. In normal life we all feel comfortable doing this when there is a reason for this security. And we see it as a normal task [...]
Posted in governance, Politics, Social Software, workspace on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Does Wikipedia work or doesn’t it? That is the question.There is a lot of discussion on what the quality of Wikipedia is and how we should use it. An interesting point of view is the comparison with Open Source software. I think there are two quite important distinctions how Wikipedia and the Open Source movement [...]
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