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Lunch Roulette: Random Social Networking in the Office | Code for America

"To counter this trend, and to encourage collaboration in the workplace, we built an internal tool called Lunch Roulette that selects random pairs of Fellows to join each other on impromptu lunch dates.…"

social-capital communication community Workantile utilities
june 2011 by Vaguery

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The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Monthly Milestone: A Different Beast

"At The Chronicle, we’re committed to proving there’s another way to approach the business of reporting – one that assumes readers can be intelligent, with a sufficient attention span to digest more than a sound bite. It’s an approach that treats the work of individuals and institutions we cover as worthy of our sustained attention – for longer than just the time it takes to collect a few quotes and pound out a few paragraphs.

I believe it’s possible to breed something other than a media beast. That’s why, against some daunting odds, we’re working hard to make The Ann Arbor Chronicle a different kind of creature."

journalism publishing transparency commentary community
june 2011 by Vaguery

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Things I love about Founder's Co-op and Our Makeshift Receptionist - A Sack of Seattle

"One interesting phenomenon is that some of the best seats in the house (near the windows, plenty of natural light, good access to the bathroom and kitchen) are avoided like the plague because they're too near the front entrance. Nobody wants to be mistaken for the receptionist. (Which we don't have.) With 22 companies, 5 conference rooms, and a speakeasy throughout our 2 floors, guests need to be pointed in the right direction. The problem is that on busy days that could easily mean 15+ interruptions...not ideal for productivity."

coworking collaboration community workantile-exchange
may 2011 by Vaguery

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The city gets a new lease of life « Future of Business

"This is perhaps the most telling point about cities. Even in this age of technology – where people can collaborate with people they barely know on the other side of the globe thanks to the internet – success depends, as Harvard economics professor Edward Glaeser points out in his book “The Triumph of the City”, on communities of individuals being in close physical proximity. Hence all the attention paid to encouraging clusters, whether they are in high-tech, as is the intention in the area around Hackney in east London, or anything else. Glaeser and others have plenty of evidence suggesting that future economic growth is dependent upon the ideas and initiatives originating in cities."

city-planning workantile-exchange community communitarianism ex-post-facto-planning cool-cities
may 2011 by Vaguery

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Empathy and Collaboration in Social Business Design « Skilful Minds

Collaboration means getting to know that other employees possess expertise on this or that topic, but also developing comfort with one another by sharing significant symbols relating to self, family, friends, and social activities, thereby understanding one another as people.

workantile-exchange collaboration community sociology membership
may 2011 by Vaguery

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Jack Dorsey on CEO as "Chief Editorial Officer"

Worth hearing, as a counterpoint to the stupid bullshit that's more often promulgated by business development and investors.

management startups institutional-design entrepreneurship-as-pathology community management-has-one-job from delicious
february 2011 by Vaguery

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An article attacking R gets responses from the R blogosphere – some reflections | (Articles about R)

"But Dr. De Mars post is (very) important for a different reason. Not because her claims are true or false, but because her writing angered people who love and care for R (whether legitimately or not, it doesn’t matter). Anger, being a very powerful emotion, can reveal interesting things. In our case, it just showed that R bloggers are connected to each other."

R community open-science statistics criticism-is-the-best-medicine
april 2010 by Vaguery

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CannedCukes - Awesome Feature Hosting

"CannedCukes is all about one thing: helping people make better BDD tests. CannedCukes is a place where BDD testers from across the world can upload Cucumber features and scenarios and share them with other testers."

good-ideas cucumber BDD testing Ruby community should-be-open-though
april 2010 by Vaguery

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Mapping GitHub – a network of collaborative coders | FlowingData

"GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects. People check code in and out, make edits, etc. Franck Cuny maps this community (with Gephi), based on information in thousands of user profiles.
The above is a map colored and sorted by the main language of each person (PHP, Python, Perl, Javascript, or Ruby)."

GitHub social-networks community software-development visualization
april 2010 by Vaguery

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Why User Competency Matters in Social Design

"So I offer this as a supplementary consideration: take an interest in what your users are good at. Take an interest in how they are good at being social with and through your service or application. Learn how to observe what users are doing and how their social habits vary. Think outside yourself and from the perspectives of other people.

Their behaviors may not give them away entirely, but if you develop a palette of personal and social skills that you can use to relate to people different from you, your design insights will be that much smarter."

social-media community community-design web2.0 social-engineering
march 2010 by Vaguery

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YouTube - Billionaires vs. Brooklyn's Best Bar: Eminent Domain Abuse & The Atlantic Yards Project
eminent-domain public-policy corporatism protest localism community community-activism development developers
march 2010 by Vaguery

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Social Capital?

"Many definitions define what social capital is and what it does. In fact, there seems to be broader agreement in the literature about what social capital does, than what it is! In particular, it is widely agreed that social capital facilitates mutually beneficial collective action."

via:hrheingold social-capital community networks capital types-of
march 2010 by Vaguery

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Conversation Hackers

"Two important men are having a careful conversation on military training. What do you call the guy who, having no particular competence or interest in the matter at hand, jumps in the conversation, systematically contradicts everyone with contrived arguments, ridicules the two competent discussants, orients the conversation on a completely different topic, then leaves the audience baffled and walks away, laughing? That Troll is Socrates in Plato's Laches. True, Plato's Socrates seldom hops in uninvited, and most of his interlocutors do not consider him noxious. Indeed one wonders why the whole city grew so irritated that they voted to condemn him to death. But Plato, like all philosophers and sophists, had a stake in defending his colleagues. In other views of Socrates (like Aristophanes' caricature), he is unmistakably trollish. "

trolls conversation community social-norms social-engineering social-psychology life-online hacking cognitive-dissonance
february 2010 by Vaguery

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Information, Freedom, Flame-bait - Charlie's Diary

"Next time you hear someone invoke "information wants to be free" as a justification for demanding free-as-in-no-payment-expected content, ask them: precisely what content have you released for free lately?"

reciprocity information-wants-to-be-free publishing drm community commons common-misconceptions copyright
february 2010 by Vaguery

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A Better Way to Manage Knowledge - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown - Harvard Business Review

"Creation spaces have the potential to generate increasing returns — the more participants that join, the faster new knowledge gets created and the more rapidly performance improves. They bring into play network effects in the generation of new knowledge. In contrast, traditional knowledge management systems are inherently diminishing returns propositions. Since existing knowledge is by definition limited, it requires more and more effort to squeeze the next increment of performance improvement as existing knowledge gets more broadly distributed."

social-engineering Workantile-Exchange community communities-of-practice problem-solving innovation-factory innovation collaboration business creativity
january 2010 by Vaguery

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Faceball: your face, our balls

I would like to suggest a Workantile Exchange Faceball league.

via:jhofman Workantile-Exchange community games unserious-games office-furniture
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Open Design Projects

"Extensive research has been done to analyze the phenomenon of open source software development from various perspectives. By contrast little is known about open source development of tangible objects, so–called open design, so far. Until recently, limitations to the availability of successful empirical examples of this ‘new innovation model’ outside software may have been a key reason for this gap.

This paper contributes to the literature on the open source mode of product development by providing a quantitative study (N = 85) of open design projects. Our goal is to explore the landscape of open source development in the world of atoms, to analyze project characteristics, structures, and success, and to investigate similarities and dissimilarities to open source software development."

open-source openness open-design engineering collaboration industrial-design intellectual-property community overview
november 2009 by Vaguery

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MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download - Boing Boing

"The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts)."

RIAA intellectual-property rights copyright stupidity WiFi open-access infrastructure community command-and-control
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Ruby Development

"The Ruby Development Center contains sample code, documentation, tools, and additional resources to help you build applications on Amazon Web Services."

Amazon Amazon-Web-Services cloud-computing Ruby software-development grid-computing development community
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse | FactoryCity

"What I worry about, however, is that pockets of the open source community continue to largely be defined and driven by complexity, exclusivity, technocracy, and machismo. While I do support independence and freedom of choice in technology — and therefore open source — I prefer to do so inclusively, with an understanding that there are many more people who are not yet well served by technology because appropriate technology has not been made more usable for them. The beautiful, usable technology in the marketplace need not be the exclusive domain of the proprietary — but so far I’ve see little indication that open source developers take seriously the need for simpler, easier, and more intuitive future-forward interfaces. Perhaps I’m wrong or just uninformed, but so long as products like the OpenOfficeMouse continue to characterize the norm in open source design, I’m not likely going to be able to soon recommend open source solutions to anyone but the most advanced and privileged users.

open-source design-autism industrial-design design-by-committee contingent usability criticism community geek-cultural-assumptions
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge

"Open source, if we view it through a different lens, is really more about a distributed methodology for software development. The burden of creation is widely distributed across a massive community with more-or-less equal access to tools and systems. In this context, the role of the legal tool is more akin to an enzyme. It was an essential piece of a puzzle, but it was not the only piece. In fact, without the rest of the infrastructure (connectivity, tools, and people) the legal tool on its own would not have led us to GNU/Linux."

openness distributed crowdsourcing science science2.0 community collaboration infrastructure academia academic-culture
november 2009 by Vaguery

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kuler
color design graphic-design community web2.0 tools reference themes palette colors
november 2009 by Vaguery

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Economist's View: "Public Trust has Economic Consequences"

"Deviating from society's average level of trust is costly only of the average level of trust is correct. Prior to the financial crisis, the level of trust was too high and more distrust than average would have been helpful in avoiding losses. Also, because the level of trust was too high, restoring trust to the blind faith level it was at before the crisis would be unwise. There wasn't enough fear and mistrust in financial markets as the bubble was inflating, and more skepticism and doubt than is appropriate. We need to rebuild trust, but even with an optimal regulatory response, we shouldn't go back to the same level of trust in complex financial products, ratings agencies, etc. that we had before."

trust social-norms public-policy financial-crisis community oversight risk
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Give A Man A Fish ~ Angry Bear

"I proposed that a network of carts and tiny kiosks be set up to give away Streetfood to anyone who asks."

community food health communitarianism disintermediation public-policy diabetes
october 2009 by Vaguery

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apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

"We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space."

twitter social-norms sociology community web2.0 MSM then-they-dismiss-you
october 2009 by Vaguery

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Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog: The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma"

"Even eBay, with the most well-known example of public negative karma, doesn't represent how untrustworthy an actual seller might be-it only gives buyers reasons to take specific actions to protect themselves. In general, avoid negative public karma. If you really want to know who the bad guys are, keep the score separate and restrict it to internal use by moderation staff."

reputation social-engineering economics community community-design psychology games social-networks
october 2009 by Vaguery

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myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding

"Your third point, about the founders' vision of America, is something that has been a matter of keen interest to me most of my adult life. In fact, I even wrote a book about it, where I went back and read the founders' early writings about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What a fascinating time to be alive! What astonishing minds! Here's what I learned: our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them. The founders uniformly despised many practices in England that compromised matters of individual conscience by restricting freedom of speech. Freedom of speech – the right to talk, write, publish, discuss – was so important to the founders that it was the first amendment to the Constitution – and without it, the Constitution never would have been ratified."

rights censorship libraries culture-war community writing books reading freedom
october 2009 by Vaguery

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RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized - O'Reilly Radar

"rssCloud is meant to carry more frequent traffic and more content than the original RSS and Atom. It maintains an XML format (making it relatively verbose for SMS, although Winer tries to separate out the rich, enhanced data). Perhaps because of the increased traffic it would cause, it's less decentralized than RSS, storing updates in Amazon S2."

peer-to-peer community infrastructure rssCloud centralization protocols p2p collaboration social-networks via:timoreilly
september 2009 by Vaguery

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Rands In Repose: Your People

"When I’m talking about Your People, I am not thinking of your best friend. Sure, your best friend might be Your People, but I’m talking about a larger population who aren’t necessarily your friends and who isn’t your family. These are a strange lot of people you’ve discovered in a motley array of places because you were searching for them."

via:mitten social-networks community self-definition advice networking
september 2009 by Vaguery

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A Manifesto for Slow Communication - WSJ.com

"We need context in order to live, and if the environment of electronic communication has stopped providing it, we shouldn't search online for a solution but turn back to the real world and slow down. To do this, we need to uncouple our idea of progress from speed, separate the idea of speed from effi ciency, pause and step back enough to realize that efficiency may be good for business and governments but does not always lead to mindfulness and sustainable, rewarding relationships. We are here for a short time on this planet, and reacting to demands on our time by simply speeding up has canceled out many of the benefits of the Internet, which is one of the most fabulous technological inventions ever conceived. We are connected, yes, but we were before, only by gossamer threads that worked more slowly. Slow communication will preserve these threads and our ability to sensibly choose to use faster modes when necessary…."

manifesto cultural-norms slow-X community communication attention conversation
september 2009 by Vaguery

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Learn More — Kickstarter

"Kickstarter is a new way to fund ideas and endeavors.

We believe that...

A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement."

Workantile business community business-culture seed-capital crowdsourcing finance funding fundraising filmmaking ideas startup microfinance
august 2009 by Vaguery

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we love typography. a place to bookmark and savour quality type-related images and quotes

"type, typography, lettering, & signage."

type typography community reference gallery inspiration fonts via:plindberg
august 2009 by Vaguery

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[FORTH FROM ITS HINGES]

"The site-based production offers artists and audiences alike the opportunity to experience large-scale installations and experimental performances that transcend the usual and explore the unknown--this is not a gallery, club, concert hall, or street fair. The young FFIH curators aim to expose and expand their own community of unseen talent by producing a series that is free from expectation, free from censorship, free from tradition, and free of charge. Forth From Its Hinges seeks to represent local art, not as it exists today, but as what it can and will be in the future."

art local Ann-Arbor culture community
july 2009 by Vaguery

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Ze Frank at Webstock 09 on Vimeo
community engagement internet-culture social-networks experiments no-matter-what-happens-it's-everything-personal
june 2009 by Vaguery

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Ann Arbor Summer Festival - Events - Activities & Attractions

"Uncork your experimental mind! UM School of Art & Design brings its Animation Station to the Top of the Park for three nights of community movie-making using the techniques of stop-motion animation.

The Animation Station is easy to use and allows you to create your own stop-motion animation without previous experience. Dry-erase markers, a whiteboard and various objects for animating will be your tools. Whether it's political satire, random drawings, personal confession, or viral experimentation - bring your imagination and join the loop. (And, if you want, bring your own materials too.)"

local Ann-Arbor participation crowdsourcing collaboration art community animation making
june 2009 by Vaguery

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Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit (May 20, 2009)

"Being a 501(c)(3) has also made Kiva feel comfortable asking its members to help cover the organization’s operating costs, which totaled $5.9 million in 2009, according to Fiona Ramsey, Kiva’s director of public relations. Jackley zeroed in on the idea of optional transaction fees at the 2007 Net Impact Conference. She was on a panel with members of two related nonprofits—DonorsChoose.org Inc., which allows people to donate directly to United States classroom projects, and the GlobalGiving Foundation, which facilitates direct donations to a wide range of projects around the world. An audience member asked the panel how each organization covered its costs. Jackley learned that DonorsChoose suggested that users make an optional 15 percent donation in addition to their base donation. GlobalGiving, in contrast, automatically took a 10 percent fee out of users’ base donations."

business-model nonprofit for-profit philanthropy community innovation 501(c)3 social-entrepreneurship Workantile
june 2009 by Vaguery

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Global Guerrillas: RESILIENT COMMUNITY: ENERGY/FOOD IRA/401K

"The solution on an idea that should be apparent, but maybe not to most. Simply, that the ownership of productive assets (essentially, those assets that generate goods/services that can be sold) is vastly superior to ownership their financial derivatives (stock funds, retirement accounts, etc.) -- we once were a nation of entrepreneurs, now we are a nation of indentured servants. "

financial-crisis economics economy community resilience futurism
june 2009 by Vaguery

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About Edge Foundation, Inc.

'Through the years, The Reality Club has had a simple criterion for choosing speakers. We look for people whose creative work has expanded our notion of who and what we are. A few Reality Club speakers and/or Edge presenters are bestselling authors or are famous in the mass culture. Most are not. Rather, we encourage work on the cutting edge of the culture, and the investigation of ideas that have not been generally exposed. We are interested in "thinking smart;" we are not interested in the anesthesiology of "wisdom." The motto of the Club is "to arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."'

community discussion salon kawgooshkawnick
june 2009 by Vaguery

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Dusty Diary: Ypsilanti Teen Diarist Allie McCullough at an 1874 Open Mike Night

"Most of the Lyceum topics were ones that to modern sensibilities would seem unbelievably trite, pedantic, and didactic. It's hard to get into the 19th-century mindset and grasp how anyone could sit through these talks instead of, say, trimming one's toenails. But this was a popular pastime, in a society with no radio, no telephone, no movie theater, no TV. Faced with the absence of those things, I might wander down to the Lyceum hall too, to see what my friends were presenting on."

community local history Ypsilanti nanohistory newspaper digitization Lyceum Kawgooshkawnick
june 2009 by Vaguery

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ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter

"ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want."

ccHost via:jyew music samples collaboration community copyright opensource creativecommons
may 2009 by Vaguery

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ccHost - CC Wiki

"The goal of this project is to spread media content that is licensed under Creative Commons throughout the web in much the same way that weblogs spread CC licensed text."

via:jyew remix creative-commons sharing content-management collaboration software community open-source media freeware opensource
may 2009 by Vaguery

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SI People: Faculty Profile

"Teasley's current research focuses on the social and cognitive processes in collaboration. She researches technology use to support key aspects of collaboration for both co-located groups and distributed groups. She has extensive experience assessing work practices and user needs, and designing, implementing, and evaluating technology use. She has conducted her work in schools, Fortune 500 companies, and with the biomedical community where she has helped to support the scientific activity in several distributed research centers. She is also involved in the development and evaluation of collaborative tools for academic research and teaching in higher education. "

via:jyew collaboration user-experience community communication local Ministry-of-Information worklife social-affordances
may 2009 by Vaguery

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SI People: Ph.D Student Profile

"I study the building of bridges, wikis in organizations, and interventions with newly hired employees in order to understand how distributed work gets done and how social computing technologies are engaged in that work. I'm especially interested in learning that takes place when people work together. I aim to contribute new ways of thinking about distributed work, learning in collaboration, and the roles of social computing in both. "

via:jyew collaboration worklife crowdsourcing communication community social-dynamics research local Ministry-of-Information
may 2009 by Vaguery

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How to work with a co-worker who has Aspergers/autism | eHow.com

"If you were ever picked on as a kid, you may have an idea of what it feels like to be a person with Aspergers in a typical office. The difference is that the person with Aspergers might not look any different than anyone else. But just like that kid on the playground, a person with Aspergers is likely to be just as confused as to why they are being "picked on". Reaching out to a person with Aspergers/autism, or at the very least working in a harmonious way, can do wonders for their self-esteem and earn you a loyal friend in the process."

community local
may 2009 by Vaguery

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New Tools for Men of Letters

"The art of conversation, with its counterpart the dialogue as a literary form for presenting ideas, has also declined since the days of Galileo, while the art of advertising has advanced. Advertising is easily recognized as the literary form that most completely responds to the technique of the printing press, because it demands, above all else, a numerous and receptive "public" of readers. A great number of improvements in the graphic arts have been adaptations to the needs of advertisers. Yet, in its development of "direct mail" methods and circular letters, advertising seems to be more emancipated than literature from the printing press. One of the most curious recent developments in the graphic arts is the effort of the advertisers to make printed matter look like typescript, while the authors of books that are not in sufficient demand to warrant publication are seeking a typescript that will look like print."

nanohistory communication community social-norms scholarship amateurism 1935
may 2009 by Vaguery

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The Art of Community | O'Reilly Media

"Building communities is vital today, whether it's to build a reliable support network, serve as a valuable source of new ideas, or provide a powerful marketing tool. In The Art of Community, you'll learn about the broad range of talents required to recruit, motivate, and manage community members. The book takes you through the stages of community, and covers topics ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills. "

community engineering social-engineering social-dynamics business-model cultural-norms cultural-engineering book want
may 2009 by Vaguery

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Concepts at Bucketworks | Bucketworks

"Working in an collaborative environment that simultaneously supports business, technology, creativity, and performance give rise to new concepts. Below we list of some of the ideas we use in our work--terms you may hear or things you may experience if you become a member and spend some time in this unique environment."

ideas workantile physical-wiki design-patterns community business-model cultural-engineering worklife project-management wikinomics
april 2009 by Vaguery

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Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › the briar patch

"Dan manages to imply that the problem he encountered can be tagged open-source. Coordinating consistent builds across a tangle of libraries would seem to be hard enough that it would require some orchestration. It’s actually kind of striking how well this works in the loosely inter-project world of open source. Stefano has been known to point out that the friction that rises out of solving this problem creates inter-project social energy that’s extremely valuable. Which I’ll admit to wondering if it’s not a good thing that these problems arise."

open-source cultural-norms standards software-development libraries community the-public-and-its-problems
april 2009 by Vaguery

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Art Of Hosting - Home

"Art of Hosting is not a method, even though it uses state-of-the-art (post-)modern social technologies that make a lot of sense and help turn that sense into effective action - if that is what the participants wish.

Art of Hosting is also not a group dynamic process, even though it touches upon and at times celebrates the wonderful feeling of community that any group using authentic human interactions will experience.

Art of Hosting most of all is the expression of a way of being, a way of life, a way of being with others and situations as they unfold. Hosting reality as the host in Rumi's poem "The Guest House" does, welcoming each person, feeling, concept and situation as it wishes to appear. And more - not only welcoming but actively and appreciatively inquiring into whatever seems to be important to one...."

collaboration community emergence conversation meeting planning leadership management-consulting open-space new-ageyness
april 2009 by Vaguery

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Capable Communities: Annotated Bibliography

"A capable community applies the strengths (assets) of its members to improve the overall wellbeing of the community. It mobilizes community members and groups to begin an informed and purposeful journey from at-risk, to safe, and ultimately to thriving."

via-JeremySeligman GED community development economic-development Vague-Innovation open-space meeting planning social-dynamics traditional-economic-development-will-destroy-the-city
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Parallel play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Parallel play is also sometimes observed in older children when playing video games..."

[and coworkers]

via-JeremySeligman play psychology education development attention cognition community dynamics sociology
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Washtenaw County MI-SBTDC: Chelsea Michigan Kitchen Incubator Project

"Today began the first in a series of meetings to discuss the possibility of creating a Kitchen Incubator in the Washington Street Education Center. This plan would take advantage of the existing cafeteria kitchen space by repurposing it for local entrepreneurs. As this was an initial brainstorming meeting specific details were not discussed rather a broad range of topics related to the success or failure of this new venture. The discussion was organized yet still very open and conducive for creative thoughts thanks to the presenting team of Victoria Bennett and Krissa Rumsey, of Washtenaw Community College."

MI-SBTDC local business-development Ann-Arbor Washtenaw incubator entrepreneurship community support cooking food
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Mass collaboration - Meta Collab

"Mass collaboration differs from mass cooperation in that the creative acts taking place requires the emergence of jointly developed shared understandings. Conversely, group members involved in a cooperation needn't engage in a joint negotiation of understanding (from which shared understandings emerge), they may simply execute instructions willingly.
Another important distinction is the borders around which a mass cooperation can be defined. Due to the extremely general characteristics and lack of need for fine grain negotiation and consensus when cooperating, the entire Internet, a city and even the global economy may be regarded as a mass cooperation. Thus a mass collaboration is more refined and complex in its process and production on the level of collective engagement."

mass-collaboration collaboration community wikinomics sharing cultural-norms
march 2009 by Vaguery

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@FredericBaud on short-lived money | Culturing

"Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person maintains a “reputation” that is based on a “thank you” that is received from the person they have donated to. A tracking system monitors the “carrying capacity” of donations. “thank you” assignments to participants are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a whole.
Total satisfaction, plus a “thank you” (which is seen in the system as individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory receipt of donations (where you “thank” the other person, and thus add to their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met, would then give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain total “health” of the system. The system should also reward those who give to those with higher total reputations."

charity philanthropy nonprofit community support economics social-networks altruism balance idea
march 2009 by Vaguery

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A2DDA Blocks Asterisk Parking Data | VoIP Tech Chat

“Hi all. Over the last day or so I have talked about your project with a few DDA members and what arose from these conversations was a shared concern that because the project was not an initiative created by/run by the DDA there are no controls in place for this at present. For instance, there is no DDA policy about how to allow /or even if it should allow an outside group to use the DDA’s parking data for a private enterprise. There is a concern about how unsecure/secure the DDA website is made when sharing this data. And finally, a concern that if the project had value to parking patrons, that the DDA itself should consider providing this service as an extension of what it is already doing on-line.”

community activism data-access openness government government2.0 local Ann-Arbor disintermediation watershed
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Open Everything - Open Everything

"Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open."

openness open-source open-access intellectual-property meeting collaboration community commons conference cooperation events
march 2009 by Vaguery

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Community as Technology

"Throughout the trip, we met with a diverse group of sustainability luminaries, including global systems scientist Will Steffen, Australian Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts (and former Midnight Oil frontman) Peter Garrett, Aboriginal activist Isabelle Coe and sustainability guru Phillip Sutton. Though their areas of expertise varied, they expressed a common interest in finding new ways for individuals to think and collaborate for the sake of the 'whole.'"

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march 2009 by Vaguery

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Model D - Whiskey Town: As Blowout Beckons, a Look at Hamtramck's Barroom Legacy

"Kowalski says that bars were used to grow political bases and owners were very civic-minded people. "Social organizations were formed at bars and city meetings were held at bars. Bars sponsored events and sports teams. They weren't just bars," Kowalski says."

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march 2009 by Vaguery

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The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Wiki Wednesday: Name Lists

"So for our inaugural Wiki Wednesday, we start with names. ArborWiki has articles about the Ann Arbor City Council, the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, and the Downtown Development Authority. Those articles include lists of current councilmembers and board members, respectively.

But who served on those bodies before the current casts of characters?"

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Read The Bill: Improve the legislative process by posting bills online for 72 hours before debate!

"You didn't have the time to read the 1100 page stimulus bill. And neither did members of Congress—by their own choice. Most lawmakers—on both sides of the aisle—were only given 13 hours to read the bill before it was passed."

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Common Security Clubs: Finding Support in Hard Economic Times

"“What becomes clear to participants is we are facing some major economic and ecological changes,” said Andree Zaleska from the Boston office of Institute for Policy Studies, who is coordinating clubs in the Northeast. “We are not going back to some golden age of economic growth based on empire, unfettered capitalism, and cheap energy—nor do we want to! We have to prepare ourselves and our communities for transformation.”"

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Snarkmarket: Demoralizing

"You can talk about professions being demoralized, in both senses of the word. Medicine is a deeply moral profession, but have the incentives (and disincentives) of the medical-industrial complex been chipping away at that foundation?

Banking once had a moral dimension. Is that even detectable anymore? Are there bankers at Citigroup who still see themselves fundamentally as stewards? Or is that species extinct?"

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Detroit: City of Hope -- In These Times

"Other communities across the country are beginning to create alternative ways of living. In Milwaukee, a renaissance has begun, sparked by the two-acre farm of former basketball player Will Allen, who recently received a MacArthur Genius award. “We have to go back to when people shared things and started taking care of each other,” Allen said recently. “That’s the only way we will survive. What better way to do it than with food?”"

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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gwap.com - Home
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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Machine Learning (Theory) » Decision by Vetocracy

"This experience has also altered my view of blogging and research. On one hand, I’m very enthusiastic about research in general, and my research in particular, where we are regularly cracking conventionally impossible problems. On the other hand, it seems that some small number of people viewing a discussion silently decide they don’t like it, and veto it given the opportunity. It only takes one to turn strong paper into a years-long odyssey, so public discussion of research directions and topics in a vetocracy is akin to voluntarily wearing a “kick me” sign. While this a problem for me, I expect it to be even worse for the members of a vetocracy in the long term."

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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How I Learn Stuff » Blog Archive » Buccaneer-Scholar Defined

"A buccaneer-scholar is anyone whose love of learning is not muzzled, yoked or shackled by any institution or authority; whose mind is driven to wander and find its own voice and place in the world."

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Of books and unbooks « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird

"Well. As Dave Gray points out, “An unbook’s community is a very real part of the unbook’s development team.” I wouldn’t necessarily have used the phrase “development team,” for the obvious reasons, but the point stands. Your voice is a part of this book we’re writing, and not the least significant. What do you think?"

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february 2009 by Vaguery

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Sociological Images » AFTER THE OIL BOOM: IMAGES OF AN OIL BUST

Consider replacing "oil" with "auto".

"But with any energy boom eventually comes the energy bust. Here are some photos I took showing what a community looks like if its economy is disproportionately based on oil and the oil companies leave. I’m not a particularly good photographer, so these aren’t artistically impressive, but they capture what the area looks like now."

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january 2009 by Vaguery

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cityofsound: The street as platform

"We can’t see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data. This is over and above the well-established electromagnetic radiation, crackles of static, radio waves conveying radio and television broadcasts in digital and analogue forms, police voice traffic. This is a new kind of data, collective and individual, aggregated and discrete, open and closed, constantly logging impossibly detailed patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the street."

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january 2009 by Vaguery

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Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy - BusinessWeek

"You might think that with the economy crashing, the free-labor business model would be crashing, too. Will people continue to invest in their personal brands during hard times? Gould is betting they will. Between investor visits during a late November trip to New York, he sips a soy latte and speculates. During the downturn, he says, firings are sapping loyalty to companies and steering people toward goals of self-sufficiency. In Gould's acerbic phrasing: "The only person I can rely on not to screw me—hopefully—is myself."

Beyond brand-hungry strivers, masses of free laborers continue to toil without ever seeing a payday, or even angling for one. Many find compensation in currencies that predate the market economy. These include winning praise from peers, earning an exalted place within a community, scoring thrills from winning, and finding satisfaction in helping others."

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january 2009 by Vaguery

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A Caring Collaborative - The New Old Age Blog - NYTimes.com

"I’m single. I’m childless. I cared for my mother at the end of her life and for a friend, years before, through 10 months of brain cancer. If, as the saying goes, everything that goes around comes around, someone will do the same for me.

But that’s magical thinking, not a sensible plan for the future. I’ll still have to ask a friend to take me home, or hire a car service, after my next colonoscopy. After almost a decade, I still shudder at the memory of my reconstructive wrist surgery, alone in a hospital where they mixed up my chart with someone else’s. Before the operation and after, I couldn’t even open a bottle."

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january 2009 by Vaguery

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detroitblog » Blog Archive » Hang time

"What better reason, then, to sit back and savor the simple enjoyment of a get-together with friends at a hangout like the Chip-in, which Miller thinks is just a formal venue for the kind of casual gatherings that occur all over town."

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december 2008 by Vaguery

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BOINC
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december 2008 by Vaguery

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'The Tyranny of Structurelessness' by Jo Freeman

"The basic problems didn't appear until individual rap groups exhausted the virtues of consciousness-raising and decided they wanted to do some- thing more specific. At this point they usually floundered because most groups were unwilling to change their structure when they changed their task. Women had thoroughly accepted the idea of 'structurelessness' without realising the limitations of its uses. People would try to use the 'structureless' group and the informal conference for purposes for which they were unsuitable out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive."