I got my examination reports back for my PhD thesis, Stigmergic Collaboration: A theoretical framework for mass collaboration, and the prognosis is good! Both of my extraordinarily esteemed examiners, Howard Rheingold and Francis Heylighen, have r…
PhD Update
So yeah, I finished my dissertation a few months back and submitted it to the university. The process for completion then runs like this: the uni sends it off to several international examiners who return examination reports. Once I receive these …
Michel Bauwens @ Melbourne Law School
The distribution of everything: new p2p logics in production, governance, and property On Tuesday I attended Michel’s talk on the state and future of peer2peer. It was a clear, focused and compelling proposal for the emergence of a new organisatio…
It’s Official, They’re Identical!
100% identical DNA confirms it. I’ve been wanting to get back to blogging for some time now, but these boys keep us so busy, we’ve barely got time to do anything but the minimum. Nevertheless, here I am, back to the blog. Do they look identical? S…
Final days of PhD… (yikes!)
2 weeks and 5 days to go… This will be a very short update – with less than three weeks of time left to complete my PhD I’m working very long days to make the most of it. But, I did want to take a moment to update as a lot has happened in the la…
What does the collaborative stigmergic web feel like? Touch it…
How will touch screens transform the collaboration, the Internet & life in general?.. With the anticipated release of Apple’s iPhone, you can bet that the popularity of touch screens will ramp up. Especially with incredible technologies like these…
Online collaborative drawing
How do collaborative drawing sites attract contributors? This is an insightful (and cute) analysis of online collaborative swarm drawing by Rolf Steier: These sites – swarmsketch.com/ & drawball.com/ are also excellent examples of stigmergic colla…
Francis Heylighen on stigmergic organization and the economics of information
Heylighen discusses the role of stigmergy and the open access economy. Francis Heylighen’s recent work Why is Open Access Development so Successful? Stigmergic organization and the economics of information presents a straight forward and compellin…
Thinkature.com – Stimgergic Collaboration Heats Up
More media, more interactive, more collaborative, more stigmergic. Stigmergic collaboration seems set to really take off with the advent of AJAX programming methods – Thinkature.com is a great example of this. I was able to draw, create stickies-l…