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…

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…

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…

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…