Collaboration: more than just “serial partial attention”

I often find myself feeling as though I’m engaged in witty repartee with a buncha crack-heads. The transience of thought, viewed with even a small dollop of irony, is quite astonishing. I mean, bizarrely, the depth of the triviliazation is staggering. Or it would be, to anyone forming a sober appreciation.

I’m slowly recreating “GroundPlane” at [...]

Habermas Just Blowing Hard?

Ping: “War Strategies … for Daily Life?” at VibeWise
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When I spend more time on this it will be shorter. heh */
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Habermas blows off question about the Internet and the Public Sphere – November 5th, 2007 by Howard Rheingold
“I think it’s important now [...]

I’ll see your conundrum and raise you a paradox

Context: I yesterday post a near-rant in my MozDawg blog; “Silo by any other name would be as …
Give 1000 people 100 communications channels and everybody may have a whole lotta fun but, really, you aren’t goint to get anything done. That ain’t rocket science.
Blogspot (multiple blogs), WordPress (multiple blogs), LiveJournal (2 accounts), FaceBook, MySpace [...]

Lemming bait

In a longish article on APML, “Attention Profiling”, MasterNewMedia writes:
“We have reached the point of information hyper-saturation. It can become quite a chore to find relevant content online, when there is so much other information competing for your attention. But by implementing attention profiling, it becomes possible to have the services and websites you visit [...]

Ground Zero

*X-posted from “Participatory Deliberation“*
There is no need, indeed it would be inappropriate, for me to present my thinking concerning “participatory deliberation” as though it is innovative or novel. It is neither. Though the pressing need is not often acknowledged and only seldom addressed, it has been addressed sufficiently well. Today in email conversation a friend [...]

So much heat, so little light!

Yesterday I read through William Clancy’s “Notes on Epistemology of a Rule-based Expert System”, the sort of thing I was working on in the late 80s. In the section that’s showing he writes, “I knew what all the words meant, but I couldn’t understand why the rule was correct. … More than a decade would [...]