Via the Collabforge blog A question I’m often asked by clients, friends and people just passing by on the street is, ‘so what’s the big deal with Twitter anyway?’ This is of course a great question – that is, how is Twitter different than Facebook…
Meta-Collaboration or Just Plain Old Collage?
This is undoubtedly a fantastic video that highlights the interconnection yet independence of individual creative efforts on social media sites such as YouTube. However I don’t think it is right to call it any form of collaboration – unless there …
Australian Government to Censor Internet Access
I just saw this this morning (emphasis mine): THE Federal Government is planning to make internet censorship compulsory for all Australians and could ban controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia. Australia’s level of net censorship will pu…
0. Prelude: Meta Contexts, Stigmergic Collaboration
I’m in the process of migrating my phd from the wiki where I wrote it, to this site. I thought I’d write a post for each chapter as I get them up. You can find more out about my phd here, or in the links in the banner. So, here’s the first chapter…
One Web Day & Future Melbourne
As part of One Web Day (a global event to celebrate and take stock of the value the web provides humanity) Future Melbourne took part, with Melbourne’s Lord Mayor John So as the 55th One Web Day ambassador, as well as hosting a event to communicat…
Replicating Replicating Machines
Via Future of Humanity Insititute: RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right – a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This te…
Vloged by Howard Rheingold
I made a brief stop in Howard Rheingold’s beautiful garden office while passing through San Francisco in early July ’08. He interviewed me for his vlog on the topic of stigmergy and the recent City of Melbourne wiki my company CollabForge designed…
Howard Rheingold’s TED Talk: Way-new collaboration
While this talk was filmed in Feb 2005, it has just been posted to the TED site. It’s an excellent primer on the broad thinking of collective action, cooperation and collaboration. Tech Tags: collaboration cooperation collectiveaction
The Hamilton Institute
I was recently asked to publish my phd abstract on HamiltonInstitute.com which you can now find here. This is a great site hosting a raft of interesting and diverse articles, ranging from “Are Familiar Faces Always Recognized?”, “The Ethics of Int…