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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 4, 2008
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Perhaps the most significant effect of our new tools, though, lies in the increased leverage they give the most connected people. The tightness of a large social network comes less from increasing the number of connections that the average member of the network can support than from...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 4, 2008
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Failure is free, high-quality research, offering direct evidence of what works and what doesn’t. Cheap failure, valuable as it is on its own, is also a key part of a more complex advantage: the exploration of multiple possibilities. (pp. 236, 247) In what ways can we make positive, learning...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 4, 2008
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There is no such thing as a generically good tool; there are only tools good for particular jobs. Contrary to the hopes of countless managers, technology is not an infinitely elastic piece of fabric that can be stretched to cover any situation. Instead, a good social tool is ike a good...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 3, 2008
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The military often talks about “shared awareness,” which is the ability of many different people and groups to understand a situation, and to understand who else has the same understanding… Shared awareness allows otherwise uncoordinated groups to begin to work together more quickly and...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 3, 2008
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When your neighbor walks your dog while you are ill, or the guy behind the counter trusts you to pay him next time, social capital is at work… Societies characterized by a high store of social capital overall do better than societies with low social capital on a similarly wide range of...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 2, 2008
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Wikipedia’s self-correction process (Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales calls it “self-healing”) is very robust. There is considerable value created by the public review process that is continually ongoing on Wikipedia – value that is very easy to underestimate, for those who have not...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 2, 2008
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Collective action, where a group acts as a whole, is even more complex than collaborative production, but here again new tools give life to new forms of action. This in turn challenges existing institutions, by eroding the institutional monopoly on large-scale coordination. (p. 143) In what...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 1, 2008
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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from “Why publish this?” to “Why not?” (p. 60) Consider for a moment both the positive and negative repercussions of mass amateurization. What will school look like in the future? Describe our...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jul 1, 2008
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The media landscape is transformed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions, now shade into one another. One result is to break the older pattern of professional filtering of the good from the mediocre before publication; now such filtering is increasingly...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jun 30, 2008
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As I've stated a number of times before, I think Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody presents a number of landmark ideas that demand further attention. In an attempt to continue the conversations in which I have participated on a number of different occasions (and to begin a few more with...... [view]
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Posted By: darrendraper
Posted On: Jun 30, 2008
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Shirky’s Thesis: Group action gives human society its particular character, and anything that changes the way groups get things done will affect society as a whole. This change will not be limited to any particular set of institutions or functions. For any given organization, the important...... [view]
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