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…
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…
Welcome to Stigmergic Collaboration’s New Home
This software provides me with a great deal more stigmergic collaborative capacity and much more control over my information than stigmergiccollaboration.blogspot.com did. Constructed with TWiki wiki, this site functions as my info portal, blog, i…
Distracted but Drafting
I know it’s been a while, but there is more coming… The onslaught of my twin boys has really put my blogging into a tail spin, but believe it or not, I’m still researching.. sort of. I have come across some really great stigmergy research that I…
At long last, this site!
It’s been a long time coming For at least a year now I’ve dreamt of having a digital homestead where not only would all my activities be documented for myself and others, but it could also provide a locus for my own private draftings and research …
Human Stigmergy Part 1
In search of human-human stigmergy research… (An illegal tyre dump, near Newcastle, Australia estimated to hold over 10,000 tyres.) As far as my explorations have uncovered, little to no research has been done on applying stigmergy to human activi…