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…
Wikinomics and Defining Collaboration
Anthony D. Williams, coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, recently blogged my phd dissertation. The post highlights the fact that Wikinomics was in fact the first text published on the topic of mass collaboration (as …
PhD Completed!!!
Examined, bound and submitted – and what a good feeling it is! Stigmergic Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework for Mass Collaboration I thought I might provide a general overview of my dissertation for those interested. I was supervised by Eliza…
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…
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…
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…
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…