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PHYS.ORG -- Rules of attraction
'Another key trait of human networks is their ability to magnify inputs, Christakis said. If someone is altruistic and helps out a friend, that will likely trigger a cascade, making that person more likely to help others and making those others more likely to pass it on. This generates a higher benefit to the whole group than the original input itself. The downside of networks, of course, is that they can also magnify violence, germs, panic, and other negative factors. “Networks magnify whatever they are seeded with, good or bad,” Christakis said. Different people occupy different positions in a network, with the more popular in the center, with more and closer connections. Whether it is better to be in the center or out on the fringe depends on the situation, however, as does the desirability of tight-knit friends who all know one another compared with friends who are attached to unconnected others. A central position has greater access to information, but greater vulnerability to germs. A tight-knit group might perform better on a hunt or a raid, while a looser, more extended group might be more effective at gathering far-flung information. -- A later experiment involving a different group of people found that cooperators in groups with noncooperators tend to sever links with noncooperators and form new bonds with other cooperators. This leaves cooperators in like-minded groups and noncooperators with no choice but to team up with people like them. When network membership was fixed, however, cooperators eventually stopped, creating groups dominated by non-cooperators. “Generous people hang out with generous people. Ungenerous people hang out with ungenerous people,” Christakis said.'
information  propagation  networks  #socialization  groups  parasitism  ostracism 
21 days ago by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- The Rise of the New Groupthink
'In his memoir, Mr. Wozniak offers this guidance to aspiring inventors: “...Work alone...” -- Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert performance by the psychologist Anders Ericsson, the best way to master a field is to work on the task that’s most demanding for you personally. And often the best way to do this is alone. Only then, Mr. Ericsson told me, can you “go directly to the part that’s challenging to you. If you want to improve, you have to be the one who generates the move. Imagine a group class — you’re the one generating the move only a small percentage of the time.” ...decades of research show that individuals almost always perform better than groups in both quality and quantity, and group performance gets worse as group size increases. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a stance different from the group’s, we activate the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the fear of rejection. Professor Berns calls this “the pain of independence.” The one important exception to this dismal record is electronic brainstorming, where large groups outperform individuals; and the larger the group the better. The protection of the screen mitigates many problems of group work. This is why the Internet has yielded such wondrous collective creations. Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of solitude,” and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone together — and this is precisely what gives it power.'
internet  networks  tethered  temes  #socialization  groupthink  work  solitude  productivity 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Testing Your Connection’s Speed Just Got Competitive (and Social)
'Speedtest.net, which had 165 million unique users in 2010, is now offering a way for users to sign up, save their results, share them with friends, create shared tests, and even win badges. “People like to show off,” Suttles said, pointing to a recently popular Reddit thread where a visitor to a Korea showed off a wickedly fast connection.'
networks  internet  #bandwidth  latency  status  e-penis  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
Open University of Catalonia -- Interview with Manuel Castells
'...changes to communication technologies create new possibilities for the self-organisation and self-mobilisation of society, by-passing the barriers of censorship and repression imposed by the state. The issue clearly isn't dependent on technology. Internet is a necessary but not sufficient condition. The roots of rebellion lie in exploitation, oppression and humiliation. However, the possibility of rebelling without being quashed immediately depends on the density and speed of mobilisation and that depends on the ability created by the technologies which I have classified as mass self-communication. -- The important thing to remember about wiki-revolutions (self-generating and self-organising ones), is that leadership doesn't count, they are just symbols. However, these symbols don't have any power, nobody obeys them and neither would they try. Perhaps later on, when the revolution has become institutionalised, some of these people may be co-opted to be a symbol for change...'
internet  networks  #socialization  #ubiquity  retribalization  "revolution"  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Computerworld -- Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online
'Egyptians with dial-up modems get no Internet connection when they call into their local ISP, but calling an international number to reach a modem in another country gives them a connection to the outside world. We Rebuild is looking to expand those dial-up options. It has set up a dial-up phone number in Sweden and is compiling a list of other numbers Egyptians can call. It is also distributing information about its activities on a Wiki page. [We Rebuild] has set up an IRC for people who can help with ham radio transmissions from Egypt. They are trying to spread the word about the radio band they are monitoring so that people in Egypt know where to transmit. Some ham enthusiasts are setting up an FTP site where people can record what they hear and post the recordings. So far, they say they've picked up Morse code messages...' -- Internet doesn't afraid of anything!
internet  amputation  countermeasures  networks  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  electricity  resilience  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- GoogleTechTalks: Tribal Leadership
'Every organization and company is a tribe, or a network of tribes-groups of 20 to 150 people that form naturally, in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of them.' -- The same person displays different stage behaviours in different tribes and contexts. -- #Stage Four (We're great/Triadic): Values (authentic) drive activities/relationships. Spontaneous match-making having assumed shared values. -- Lower stages, shared values can't be assumed. -- #Stage Five (Life is great): A common enemy 'them' takes the form of an abstraction rather than another tribe. Hard to benchmark. Visit don't stay. -- Don't just hire best and brightest else you will stagnate at Stage Three. - #Stage Three (I'm great/Dyadic): Endless cloning/individuation cycles. Values have to be made explicit before attempting match. @44:05 See tribe stage types in social network map. Hub-and-spokes meshed using triadic connections. -- Rhetoric: Shift up stages with deliberative; stabilize with demonstrative.
*  emotionalintelligence  groups  teams  tribes  networks  emergence  organisation  management  cooperation  collaboration  communication  rhetoric  heterarchy  panarchy  psychographics  tense  psychology  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
Stowe Boyd -- It's Betweenness That Matters, Not Your Eigenvalue: The Dark Matter Of Influence
'...people are influential because they are connected to many influential people. But influence doesn’t seem directly linked to how many people you are connected to. It’s a function of being connected to others who have short chains to many other people with high betweenness. Or, looked at differently, betweenness is a measure of how many social circles, or social scenes, a person is connected to. So, it’s not who you know it’s where you know. It’s where you are situated in the network, and not just in the limited sense of how many immediate contacts you have. It is not your follower count, or who you follow, per se. But, instead, do you have short paths into other social scenes, both incoming and outgoing? That is the deep structure of being truly connected: bridging over different social scenes, acting as a conduit, a vector, a filter and amplifier for ideas good and bad, the best insights, and deadly viruses.'
networks  #bandwidth  #socialization  triangulation  influence  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
OR Books — Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff
'We scramble to keep up with the never-ending inflow of demands and commands, under the false premise that moving faster will allow us to get out from under the endless stream of pings for our attention. For answering email and responding to texts or tweets only exacerbates the problem by leading to more responses to our responses, and so on. Every answered email spawns more. The quicker we respond, the more of an expectation we create that we will respond that rapidly again. We mistake the rapid-fire stimulus of our networks for immediacy, and the moment we are actually living in for the thing that needs to catch up. -- The digital realm is biased toward choice, because everything must be expressed in the terms of a discrete, yes-or-no, symbolic language. We are making choices not because we want to, but because our programs demand them. ...the more we learn to conform to the available choices, the more predictable and machinelike we become ourselves.'
books  digital  media  themediumisthemassage  technology  temes  networks  #bandwidth  #processing  feedback  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  bots  choice  now  ambientimmediacy  intermittentvariablerewards  kipple  DouglasRushkoff 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
The New Yorker -- Twitter, Facebook, and social activism
'As the historian Robert Darnton has written, “The marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the Internet.” But there is something else at work here, in the outsized enthusiasm for social media. Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. ...weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism. [Social media activism] doesn’t require that you confront socially entrenched norms and practices. In fact, it’s the kind of commitment that will bring only social acknowledgment and praise. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. There are many things that networks don’t do well.'
networks  weakties  socialnetworking  socialmedia  activism  slacktivism  consensus  spectacle  narcissism  MalcolmGladwell 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Broader Perspective -- Social economic networks and the new intangibles
'The new currencies have new measurement metrics for monetization such as awareness, influence, authenticity, reach, action, engagement, impact, spread, connectedness, velocity, participation, shared values, and presence. As market principles become the norm for intangible resource allocation and exchange, all market agents are starting to have a more intuitive and pervasive concept of exchange and reciprocity. Reputation has always been an important intangible asset, and was one of the first alternative currencies cited; however it was not really monetizable other than as an attribute of labor capital. Now, there are more alternative currencies, such as social currency, that are directly monetizable through social economic networks.'
networks  markets  economics  currency  reputation  whuffie 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E04: "Faith In Numbers"
'Faith in Numbers examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death influenced cultural development.'
documentaries  technology  networks  roman  empire  collapse  waterpower  hydraulics  engineering  gearing  cam  automation  industrialization  systems  loom  textiles  music  programming  trade  commerce  accounting  investment  linen  paper  JohannesGutenberg  letterpress  printing  book  #specialization  cognitivesurplus  emmigration  america  census  information  tabulation  computers  history  code  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E01: "The Trigger Effect"
'The Trigger Effect details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965.'
documentaries  technology  plough  agriculture  civilization  #specialization  networks  electricity  #complexity  history  resilience  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)
'What do we need? We need a really good webserver you can put in your pocket and plug in any place. It should know how to collect all your stuff out of the social networking places where you’ve got it. It should know how to send an encrypted backup of everything to your friends’ servers. It should know how to microblog. ...it should know how to be you in a free net that works for you and keeps the logs. You can always tell what’s happening in your server and if anybody wants to know what’s happening in your server they can get a search warrant. Then we go to people and we say $29.99 once for a lifetime, great social networking, updates automatically, software so strong you couldn’t knock it over it you kicked it, used in hundreds of millions of servers all over the planet doing a wonderful job. You know what? You get “no spying” for free. -- Mr. Zuckerberg richly deserves bankruptcy. Let’s give it to him. For Free.'
facebook  backlash  networks  internet  socialnetworking  darknets  cryptoanarchism  hackersvsvectoralists  diaspora 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)
'The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed Friday night. That is, everybody needs to get laid and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality and he has to a remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal. Namely, “I will give you free web hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time”. And it works. Facebook is the Web with “I keep all the logs, how do you feel about that?” It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a panopticon built out of web parts. -- I’m not lamenting progress of a sort of democratizing kind. On the contrary, I’m lamenting progress of a totalizing kind. I’m lamenting progress hostile to human freedom. We have to fess up if we’re the people who care about freedom, it’s late in the game and we’re behind. '
networks  internet  socialnetworking  panopticon  surveillance  privacy  identity  facebook  rentseeking  sharecroppping  backlash  diaspora  rent 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TEDxBrussels: Michel Bauwens
"We are seeing the seeds of a new society within the old and this is what I call 'open everything'. Peer-production, peer-governance, and peer-property are the new modalities that are emerging from this open world." -- Models: #Commons (strong-ties, production), #Share (weak-ties, aggregation), #Crowdsourced (seek sustainable collaboration). -- Tensions: Institutions vs Communities -- Solutions: Community Charters (GPL, CC, etc) that embed the principles of peer production in cultural value systems.
economics  networks  markets  communities  collaboration  businessmodels  socialproduction  peerproduction  p2p  resilience  retribalization 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
FORA.tv -- Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality
"I would argue that we're in Darwinian struggle with narrow AI, and that nature is currently selecting for bots and against humans and one reason efficiency. Rather than rising to some great complex golden age, I am concerned that human civilization might head towards a boolean age that's a constant bombardment of categorical questions that you must answer. You can't post any questions that aren't asked directly of you. When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing back into superstitions and darkness." -- Suggests an encrypted, reputation-based, darknet economy.
internet  networks  systems  technology  artificialintelligence  data  dataming  realitymining  homogeneity  centralization  automation  bots  algorithms  #processing  #storage  #bandwidth  #specialization  parasitism  everyware  panopticon  botnets  blackboxes  casinogulag  darkmarkets  darknets  reputation  cryptoanarchism  retribalization 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- STANDING ORDER 2: Grow Black Economies
'The second standing order of modern insurgencies is to generate economic connectivity in order to manufacture allies and increase the ability of the insurgency to fund itself. It's simple: Grow Black Economies. This requires cooperation with existing criminal organizations within "illegal" economies. This requires a variant on how the nation-state grew via becoming a protection racket -- protection at a rate worth that is worth the value provided and the willingness to expand the business potential of those being protected. Induced shortages, through network disruption, expand business opportunity. Further, broken "legal" economies, generate a plethora of free lancers...'
strategy  networks  markets  blackmarkets  protectionrackets 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- A typology of crowds
'#Social production crowd: consists of a large group of individuals who lend their distinct talents to the creation of some product like Wikipedia or Linux. #Averaging crowd: acts essentially as a survey group, providing an average judgment about some complex matter that, in some cases, is more accurate than the judgment of any one individual. #Data mine crowd: a large group that, through its actions but usually without the explicit knowledge of its members, produces a set of behavioral data that can be collected and analyzed in order to gain insight into behavioral or market patterns. #Networking crowd: a group that trades information through a shared communication system such as the phone network or Facebook or Twitter. #Transactional crowd: a group used to instigate and coordinate what are mainly or solely point-to-point transactions, such as the type of crowd gathered by Match.com. -- Some crowds become more useful as they get bigger; others work best when kept to a small scale.'
internet  web  groups  communities  networks  markets  socialnetworking  socialproduction  crowdsourcing  p2p  collectiveintelligence  datamining  sharecropping 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
LogMeIn - Virtual Networking with LogMeIn Hamachi²
'Connect multiple users and computers together on a secure, private network, regardless of location, over the public Internet.'
vpn  networks  socialnetworking  p2p  security  privacy  darknets 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Remobo - Instant Private Network ™ Application
'Remobo creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users. It's like a computer network for your social network.'
vpn  networks  socialnetworking  p2p  security  privacy  darknets 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
jack/zen … zenext -- The 4 Laws of Networks
'The more we intentionally grow networks, the more we discover very clear laws at work. #1. Luck = consciousness x transparency #2. Innovation = learning x diverse connections #3. Influence = credibility x location #4. Network growth = introductions x generosity'
networks  emergence  innovation  #socialization  #complexity  #ubiquity  #diversity  via:charlesfrith 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- WHY A RESILIENT COMMUNITY NETWORK?
'...the nation-state has been largely co-opted by increasingly powerful non-state entities -- from parasitical banks that sit astride core functions of the global system (they profit from the ability to distort core financial and economic functions to manufacture virtual "wealth") to transnational gangs that puncture borders with drugs and other smuggled goods -- and that corruption is spreading. Nothing can get done at the nation-state level anymore and what does get done (as the recent health and finance legislation in the US proves), is only being done to drive forward profitability in parasitical firms or sap our resources (making us more vulnerable to predation by local threats). Worse, nation-state bureaucracies are becoming more insulated and focused on self-preservation by the day from the institutional level down the individual government employee contractor.'
statism  parasitism  metastasis  collapse  voluntaryism  anarchism  communities  networks  bootstrapping  retribalization 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- A "DARKNET"
'A Darknet is the system that runs an autonomous social network (a tribe, a constellation of resilient communities, a gang, etc.). It is composed of a software layer and hardware infrastructure that connects, organizes, allocates, and automates the functions of the synthetic social system it is built for. -- This system, both economic and social, runs both in parallel and in conjunction with the global economy (the environment). It is self-referencing, autonomous, and willing to defend its own interests. It can be parasitic or additive to the global environment (or more effectively: both). It is competitive with other entities that operate within the global environment, from nation-states to corporations.'
systems  networks  darknets  blackboxes  cryptoanarchism 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- DARKNET ECONOMIES
'...our new network's economy will be centered on the production and flow of information 'property'. ...in the mid to long term manufacturing will quickly become more about manipulation of information (designs, controls, etc.) than materials. The actual physical production takes little space, money, and basic materials (perfect for decentralized resilient communities that need to make their own stuff). What's exciting about this shift to information dominance, is that it makes our efforts to build an instrumented network (a darknet), one that enables the rapid establishment of thriving resilient communities, not only possible but probable. Our opportunity then, is to build our network in a such a way that the information flow for making and doing things is better, faster, and more easily utilized than the status quo system by several orders of magnitude.' -- Comment: Openworld: "Why not Trustnets?"
economics  networks  darknets  localism  communities  sustainability  fabrication  spimes  hackersvsvectoralists  retribalization 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Danah Boyd, "Streams of Content, Limited Attention"
On information flow: "You have to help people reach that state of flow where they know they're making sense of the world around them." -- On attention streams: "The key will be to find ways in which content can be surfaced in context regardless of where it resides." -- On monetizing sociality (rent): "We've yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol for the internet." -- http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html
information  news  storygraph  flow  socialmedia  businessmodels  networks  rhizome  curation  context  DanahBoyd 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
TED Blog -- Q&A with Loretta Napoleoni: The ever-changing face of terrrorism
'The second step is to look at where the funds are coming from, and for sure narcotics today is one of, if not the most important source of revenue. So, I would legalize drugs. I know that this is never going to happen. I sit on so many committees on this issue and I can tell you that the world’s experts on narcotics, every single one, in private will tell you, “Yes, that’s the solution. We legalize drugs, we control the drugs, we tax them and we make sure that those who are being supported by drug revenue don’t get that money anymore.” But, the real issue is the moral issue. Which government is going to tell its citizens that it’s going to legalize drugs because this is the only way to create a safer world? They’ve used the argument that drugs destroy society for so long. This would require a completely different worldview and approach to politics. However, it would cut out a lot of these illegal revenues and therefore a lot of crime.'
criminology  terrorism  economics  markets  blackmarkets  greymarkets  networks  finance  credit  crime  moneylaundering  drugs  corruption 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TED: Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism
'Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.' -- "I wanted to know what turned my best friend into a terrorist and why she didn't try to recruit me."
criminology  terrorism  economics  markets  blackmarkets  greymarkets  networks  finance  credit  crime  drugs  moneylaundering 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
LIND -- On War #325: How the Taliban Take a Village (Lind/Sexton)
'The Taliban have recognized the necessity to operate with the cooperation of local population with the modus operandi being to gain their cooperation through indoctrination (preferred) or coercion (when necessary). A village can be divided into three areas that most affect how daily life is lived: #administrative, #religious, and #security. Form fits function, an Afghan village can only work one way to allow its members to survive a subsistence agrarian lifestyle, and the Taliban know it well. The local villagers know the government has no effective plan that can counter the Taliban in their village and will typically only give information on Taliban or criminal elements to settle a blood feud. The Pashtu people are patient to obtain justice and will use what they have to pay pack “blood for blood” even against the Taliban. Afghan identity is tribal in nature. Americans view identity as a national government, in the villages Afghans do not. The tribe is most important.'
afghanistan  guerrilla  war  parasitism  assimilation  communities  networks  tribes  tactics 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- JOURNAL: Fighting an Automated Bureaucracy
'The US military is extremely top heavy. Why? It's staffed for great power war. This means that it has the middle management and 'leadership' to absorb millions of conscripts. As a result, internal competition for 'inclusion' in combat ops is fierce (for promotion and 'validation of value' purposes). This also leads to extreme specialization of bureaucratic function -- lots of different types of oversight.' -- '#Pinpoint specific decision making processes for disruption.'
networks  strategy  bureaucracy  hierarchy  status  #specialization  guerrilla  war  smartmobs  tactics 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
The Economist -- Iraq's mobile-phone revolution: Better than freedom?
'Reluctant to risk their lives by visiting a bank, many subscribers transferred money to each other by passing on the serial numbers of scratch cards charged with credit, like gift vouchers. Recipients simply add the credit to their account or sell it on to shops that sell the numbers at a slight discount from the original. This impromptu market has turned mobile-phone credit into a quasi-currency, undermining the traditional informal hawala banking system. -- Criminal rings are among the parallel currency’s busiest users. Kidnap gangs ask for ransom to be paid by text messages listing a hundred or more numbers of high-value phone cards. Prostitutes get regular customers to send monthly retainers to their phones, earning them the nickname “scratch-card concubines”, while corrupt government officials ask citizens for $50 in phone credit to perform minor tasks.'
mobile  banking  credit  money  currency  markets  networks  decentralisation  iraq  #bandwidth  #socialization  decentralization  retribalization 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- The dark side of the internet
'"Many many users think that when they search on Google they're getting all the web pages," says Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix, one of a new generation of post-Google search engine companies. But Rajaraman knows different. "I think it's a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I don't know, to be honest, what fraction. No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know." -- "The darkweb"; "the deep web"; beneath "the surface web" – the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious.' -- The net is vast and infinite.
internet  web  darknets  networks  rhizome 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TED: David Logan on tribal leadership
'Business professor David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form (% of all working/employed tribes): #1. "Life Sucks" (2%) #2. "My Life Sucks" (25%) #3. "I'm Great" (48%) #4. "We're Great" (22%) #5. "Life Is Great" (2%) -- Leaders are fluent in all stages. Those tribes that work at stage five change the world.'
psychology  framing  groups  behaviours  management  leadership  tribes  communities  networks  retribalization  rhetoric  tense 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Tech Shrink -- Twitter attack: Crisis of disconnectivity
'At the lowest level, there is #Disconnectivity Anxiety, which I define as a persistent and unpleasant condition characterized by worry and unease caused by periods of technological disconnection from others. Some Tweeters may have devolved to the next level related to our overly connected world, #Disconnectivity Panic, which involves a frenzied and unfocused effort to get reconnected. Others may have sunk even lower to #Disconnectivity Catatonia, psychological and physical paralysis due to loss of technological connection. Though a truly scary thought, the endpoint of this continuum may be Disconnectivity Suicide, where life is just not worth living without technological connection. Though I have never heard of it happening, I will predict (sadly) that it will occur in the near future if it hasn't already.'
psychology  socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  twitter  ambientimmediacy  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  networks  #bandwidth  amputation 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Nearfield -- Making radio tangible
Roundup of projects exploring radio field interaction. Quoting Dunne & Raby: “It might seem strange to write about radio, a long-established medium, when discussion today centres on cyberspace, virtual reality, networks, smart materials and other electronic tehcnologies. But radio, meaning part of the electromagnetic spectrum is fundamental to electronics. Objects not only “dematerialise” into software in response to minituarisation and replacement by services but literally dematerialise into radiation. All electronic products are hybrids of radiation and matter. [...] Whereas cyberspace is a metaphor that spatialises what happens in computers distributed around the world, radio space is actual and physical, even though our senses detect only a tiny part of it.”
interaction  design  designnoir  networks  electromagnetism  radio  bluetooth  RFID  wifi  Dunne&Raby 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Why Tokyo Crowds Can’t Stop Playing Dragon Quest IX
'Call it a massively multiplayer offline game. -- The items the Dragon Quest players are exchanging are treasure maps that lead them to hidden dungeons filled with monsters and treasure. When a player finds a map in the single-player game and then passes it along, his name will be attached, perhaps making him a mini celebrity. -- The game mode that’s fueling the Japanese crowds is called sure-chigai tsuushin, or “passerby communication.” It’s a brilliant concept for densely populated cities like Tokyo -- While every player I talked to said they were interested in the game because you can “meet people,” nobody seemed to actually be meeting each other. ...in a culture where randomly introducing yourself to a stranger is something of a breach of etiquette, perhaps there really is a deep appeal to being able to virtually encounter other people, if only in passing.' -- Massively multiplayer ambient collecting game
ds  gaming  ambientgaming  p2p  wifi  networks  city  wardriving  smartmobs  behaviours  foraging  collecting  virtualitems  socialobjects  objects  infection  japan  etiquette  retribalization 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird -- The kind of program a city is
'In the networked city, the truly pressing need is for translators: people capable of opening these occult systems up, demystifying them, explaining their implications to the people whose neighborhoods and choices and very lives are increasingly conditioned by them. This will be a primary occupation for urbanists and technologists both, for the foreseeable future, as will ensuring that the public’s right to benefit from the data they themselves generate is recognized in law. If we’re reaching the point where it makes sense to consider the city as a fabric of addressable, queryable, even scriptable objects and surfaces – to reimagine its pavements, building façades and parking meters as network resources – this raises an order of questions never before confronted, ethical as much as practical: who has the right of access to these resources, or the ability to set their permissions?'
technology  networks  data  sharedobjects  objects  city  everyware  kipple  #ubiquity 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- The evolving face of networks
'"It's hard to quantify the influence that people exert. Ideas are replicators, and influence makes them replicate: but when that happens, there usually isn't a birth certificate." That's another way in which evolutionary graph theorists may have an impact. Evolutionary graph theory provides a quantitative language for describing how replicators behave on networks – and may lead to new ways of quantifying the value of influence on the web. "The idea we need to explore is this: what is the likelihood that a particular stimulus within a social network leads to a particular response?" says Lieberman. "In my opinion, as we get better at measuring what happens within social networks, I predict a lot more organised marketing efforts on social networks as well as systematic influence campaigns."'
socialnetworking  networks  memetics  influence  propagation 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
CTheory.net -- Media Dopplers
'When we deal with this condition of outformation, we concern ourselves with rates, flow, vector, flux, and its messaging types [unicast, multicast, broadcast, or anycast]. We deal with paths, closeness, link, connectivity, signaling, entropy, self-similarity, throughput, and latency. It doesn't matter what the content is. Rather, the critical standpoint deals with its entropy, its signaling, its rate, flux density and messaging type. -- The requirement for citizen-actors on reality television reflects not nearly the need for such vocations of entertainment, rather, it is the construct of computer networks and software algorithm attempting and stuggling to learn to mimic the bizarre banality of a society dwelling in the afterburn of failed capitalism. It is not staged idiocy, it is pre-school for the machine screens comprehensively looping the simulation of the western debt class.'
*  internet  networks  cybernetics  feedback  technology  temes  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  puppetry  culture  #storage  #ubiquity  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  immunesystem  themediumisthemassage  data  information  outformation  simulation  simulacra  matrix  selfservers  avatars  bots  doppleganger  virtuality  debt  economics  financialization  hologram  via:charlesfrith  media 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Is Happiness Catching?
'By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn’t.' -- Monkey see, monkey do.
*  behaviours  mimicry  homophily  influence  propagation  contagion  infection  spread  memes  socialgraph  networks  #socialization 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Google Video -- Catherine Fitts IRTA Barter Convention
On the 'central banking warfare model', systemic fraud/fraudulent inducement in America and beyond, disintermediation and trust networks -- "Financial fraud as government policy." -- "[Creditors] are buying our paper because we have the weapons." -- "The Red Button problem" (American citizens' complicity in continuing financial fraud to fund their entitlement benefits) -- "The value of the corporate brand is diminishing. The corporate brand has risen with significant amounts of fraud as its source of capital. (Corporates bought market share with leverage). There's a distrust on the corporate brand providing essential goods and services." -- "How could [the mortgage fraud] go on and me not know about it if I was the Assistant Secretary of Housing?? One of the hardest things to do is look into the mirror and say, 'So I'm the patsy here.'" -- "We're watching tremendous political control through dirty tricks (surpressing health and energy technology, etc)." -- "Green = No waste"
economics  markets  networks  communities  trust  barter  disintermediation  localism  sustainability  america  debt  fraud  oligarchy  war  CatherineAustinFitts  retribalization 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
GroupIntel -- The Rise of Cyber-Mobilization
'Cyber-mobilization is a process of massing force against decisive points. Above all, cyber-mobilization is a popular form of conflict, not a bunch of elite soldiers typing away in cubicles trying to increase their unit’s Google pagerank. It thrives on public participation and dies without it. Cyber-mobilization offers state and non-state actors three important advantages: movement-building, reach and discretion. Propagandizing or carrying out crude hacking attacks gives followers unable to pick up a rifle an ability to contribute and further emotionally bonds them to the cause. By incorporating the efforts of many different geographically dispersed users, cyber-mobilization also allows states and movements to multiply the combat effectiveness of their attacks. And since civilians do all the hacking, states are insulated from retaliation.'
internet  networks  cyberspace  cyberwarfare  socialnetworking  smartmobs  perception  herd  sentiment  swarming  standalonecomplex 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Slate Magazine -- Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rule the field.
'Twitter went down last week due to a distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at a single Twitter user—millions of zombie computers had been directed to cripple the user's social-networking pages (apparently as part of ongoing cyberwarfare between Russian and Georgian hackers). The rest of us were collateral damage—Twitter went down for you because of a beef between people on the other side of the world. Does this make sense? Winer doesn't think so. -- What if a major act of terrorism is organized using Twitter? Would there be pressure to shut it down or greatly control what it's used for?" Winer asks. If you think that's far-fetched, Winer asks you to consider the atmosphere after 9/11, when some people were calling for the Web to be monitored or shut down. Nothing ever came of that because it's too hard to shut down the Web or e-mail. "Twitter, which is fully centralized, would be easy for a government to control," Winer writes.' -- Bottleneckr
networks  twitter  decentralisation  communication  protocols  DDoS  collateraldamage  decentralization 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
Laserlike -- Are social networks destroying knowledge?
'Following the crowd is best strategy for an individual until too many people follow the crowd, and then it’s a terrible strategy. The irony. -- For objective things, informational cascades have the potential to do great harm. When people discuss their point of view on something before voting with their behavior, conformity will destroy knowledge. I wonder if the way people find things bifurcates into solutions for subjective things and solutions for objective things? Might social networks like Twitter replace Google and Yahoo! on subjective discovery while the current incumbents retain the keepers of the global truth for objective topics? Will someone use the social graph to sanitize information — that is, use the knowledge of who knows who to de-dupe amplified data and to kill informational cascades?'
networks  socialmedia  smartmobs  popularity  herd  collectiveintelligence  collectiveunintelligence  groupthink  confirmity  signalvsnoise  criticaldistance  #specialization 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets
'...how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest? At the most abstract level, history and computation are the same thing: the evolution of systems over time. Twitter has several remarkable properties that allow us to finally leverage this correspondence in tangible ways. The simplicity of its data, the openness of its system, and its extreme time resolution make it possible for us to detect atoms of history, those moments when something is triggered and society is reconfigured ever so slightly. Simply tracking the volume of various phrases gives us a sense of what is happening on the street, literally and figuratively. But that signal is but a shadow of a far more complex and intricate reality, an interwoven web of individuals and actions. -- Disruptive events lead to information elites.'
*  twitter  #iranelection  socialmedia  realtime  history  data  datamining  realitymining  information  propagation  visualization  networks  #bandwidth  realityprogramming  reflexivity 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
apophenia -- Would the real social network please stand up?
'#Sociological "personal" networks. #Behavioral social networks. #Publicly articulated social networks. -- These networks are NOT the same. Your mother may play a significant role in your personal network but, behaviorally, your strongest tie might be the person who works in the cube next to you. And neither of these folks might be links on your Facebook for any number of reasons. Those who treat different social networks interchangeably project properties onto the network they're analyzing that don't hold. People aren't inherently cool or connectors because they have a lot of Friends on a social network site. Bus drivers and waitresses are much more likely to encounter more new people on a daily basis than executives, but this doesn't mean that they have more social capital. People who email regularly do not necessarily have strong tie strength.'
networks  socialnetworking  socialgraph  socialcapital 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Fast Company -- The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution
'Consider, for a moment, what we're seeing happening in Iran: mass-action coordinated, at least in part, through Twitter; traditional media in Iran having lost any legitimacy for the angry populace, alternative media—like Twitter—increasingly becoming the sole source of information; and a growing sense of persecution and crisis, abetted by the limited streams of rumor-heavy news. -- Frank Chalk noted five circumstances that would allow the maximum intensity of a media-driven response to a crisis: #1. the introduction of a new medium of communication; #2. the use of a completely new style of communication; #3. the wide-spread perception that a crisis exists; #4. a public with little knowledge of the situation from other sources of information, and #5. a deep-seated habit of obeying authority among the target audience. -- All of these circumstances pertain to the promulgation of the genocide in Rwanda and many of them are found in other cases of genocide and genocidal killings, as well.'
internet  networks  socialmedia  twitter  coordination  activism 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
BusinessWeek -- Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet
"Political organizers use these tools because they create a multiplier effect—not only do you get a story about the campaign but then you also get a story about the fact they are using social-networking tools. So you get two stories for the price of one. The international media loves [the] social-networking world. But in India or in Iran, their use is still somewhat limited." -- "There is this romantic notion that the people tweeting are the ones in the streets, but that is not what is happening. The hubs are generally not people on the ground, and many are not in the country." -- "Governments like Iran, Syria, and Egypt are really struggling with how to continue limiting information. No matter how hard these governments try to block communication, now there is always going to be a hole. This really is a case study in how technology can affect closed societies."
iran  iranelection  internet  networks  web  socialmedia  twitter  journalism  signalvsnoise  globalvillage 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
International Network for Life Studies -- Consciousness Communication: The Birth of a Dream Navigator
Masahiro Morioka, 'Consciousness Communication: The Birth of a Dream Navigator', 1993: "In this book, I analyzed computer-mediated-communications from the viewpoint of deep psychology and sociology. I distinguished two concepts, "infomation communication" and "consciousness communication," and insisted that the latter would be greatly activated in the network society. ..."consciousness communication" means "the communication for the purpose of social interaction itself." In consciousness communication, my consciousness flows out through the feeler of my personality, and gets mixed with other consciousness in the consciousness interaction field. -- I introduced the concept of "community of anonymity" where anonymous persons join and interact with each other. I insisted that this kind of community would expand and prevail in cyber-space." -- Expect us.
cyberspace  internet  networks  communication  consciousness  emergence  ambientintimacy  standalonecomplex  anonymous  multitude  #socialization  psychology 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Production I.G -- Interview: The context of Stand Alone Complex
Kenji Kamiyama: 'When I first named the series, "Stand Alone Complex", I tried to underscore the dilemmas and concerns that people would face if they relied too heavily on the new communications infrastructure known as "the network". When "the network" links individuals together, the speed and the amount of transmitted information is greatly boosted. Also, people can share information as if they had actually experienced it, using virtual reality tools in the same way that cell phones and text messaging is commonly used today. When you are only exchanging text messages, you tend to include all sorts of presumptions and imagined notions. I became aware that this could lead to a sort of parallel information further leading to dangerous situations. -- "information disseminates and parallelizes; and the Stand Alone Complex phenomenon actually exists." and "good cause is seldom parallelized, and does not disseminate."' -- Bad spreads good.
internet  networks  communication  information  collectiveintelligence  hivemind  collectivism  individualism  multitude  standalonecomplex  ghostintheshell  philosophy  #socialization  #ubiquity 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
#iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners
(boingboing mirror) "#3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow. -- #5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind. -- #7. Do spread the (legitimate) word, it works! When the bloggers asked for twitter maintenance to be postponed using the #nomaintenance tag, it had the desired effect. As long as we spread good information, provide moral support to the protesters, and take our lead from the legitimate bloggers, we can make a constructive contribution."
internet  networks  twitter  iran  iranelection  cyberwarfare  activism  misinformation  countermeasures  signalvsnoise 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
"While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."
internet  networks  web  socialnetworking  socialmedia  communication  coordination  activism  smartmobs  information  transparency  communities  media  temes  #socialization  #ubiquity  ClayShirky 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Web Attacks Expand in Iran’s Cyber Battle (Updated)
'“We turned our collective power and outrage into a serious weapon that we could use at our will, without ever having to feel the consequences. We practiced distributed, citizen-based warfare,” writes Matthew Burton, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who joined in the online assaults, thanks to a “push-button tool that would, upon your click, immediately start bombarding 10 Web sites with requests. -- ... online supporters of the so-called “Green Revolution” worry about the ethics of a democracy-promotion movement inhibitting their foes’ free speech. -- Burton—who helped bring Web 2.0 tools to the American spy community... admits to feeling “conflicted” about participating in the strikes... he suddenly stopped. “I don’t know why, but it just felt…creepy. I was frightened by how easy it was to sow chaos from afar, safe and sound in my apartment, where I would never have to experience–or even know–the results of my actions.” -- Push-button cyberwarfare
internet  networks  activism  smartmobs  guerrilla  war  cyberwarfare  ddos  proxy  spoofing  puppetry  iranelection  iran 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
True/Slant -- What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran?
"...rumors can have a longer lifespan on a network of sympathetic blogs, Facebook postings and Twitter feeds. None of this is to excuse the behavior of the government after the election results came out. Or to diminish the bravery and courage of the people who are out in the streets in Tehran getting beaten. But what if it’s based on a lie? A Twitter-fueled, mass delusion of a lie? That the one third of people who voted for Mousavi convinced themselves, via a social media echo chamber that selectively picked rumors and amplified them until they appeared true, that they in fact represented two thirds of the country? And then tried to bring down the government based on that delusion? Maybe it’s not the case this time. But doesn’t this entire episode seem to show how such a thing could happen? And then what?" -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.
internet  networks  web  socialnetworking  socialmedia  twitter  friendfeed  realtime  communication  coordination  activism  smartmobs  signalvsnoise  emergence  misinformation  echochamber  feedback  realityprogramming  standalonecomplex  iranelection  iran  #socialization  #specialization 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
The Daily Beast -- How Iran's Hackers Killed Big Brother
"The value of Tweets right now is less the information they contain than the solidarity they promote. Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present. Twitter, for all its faults, and the Internet, for all its insubstantiality, nonetheless serve as the strands of an existential telegraph. By resisting those who would censor history in real time, those flinging messages into the ether are demonstrating their freedom of speech—or, rather, their freedom to speak in spite of all efforts to the contrary. This mere gesture of freedom—the ability to connect to others and confirm one's experience of the world—is what social networking is all about. While this may or may not be enough right now to topple an unjust government, the opposition, in demonstrating that this freedom is now a permanent right, has already claimed victory." -- The network is flowing.
internet  networks  web  socialnetworking  socialmedia  twitter  friendfeed  realtime  communication  coordination  activism  smartmobs  swarming  iranelection  iran  #bandwidth  #socialization  DouglasRushkoff 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Food Web, Meet Interweb: The Networked Future of Farms
'FarmsReach wants to make ordering from local, small farms as easy and reliable as ordering from Sysco. Farmers with smartphones would snap quick photos of their produce, then upload their products into their “virtual stalls.” Restaurants could cruise through the vegetables online and pick what they wanted. It’s a classic farmer’s market with a high-tech twist. And by bringing producers and customers closer together, the internet could cause purchasers to change who they buy their food from. Already, increasing numbers of restaurants and produce buyers demand to know more about the food they are purchasing.'
networks  farming  food  distribution  localism  seasonalisation  sustainability 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
Like the meaning of life being 'life', I think he's nailed the "what does twitter mean?" thing, here: '#1. Ideals beat strategies: What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle. "Hey, Twitter" say the pundits: "don't you know the business of business is to profit, by any means necessary?" The business of business is to create value — and that's why Twitter's not playing the tired, old game of value extraction. It is trying, instead, to create a more authentic kind of value — and to do that, you need ideals. Twitter pursues its ideals — democracy, peace, equity — with the quiet intensity of a true revolutionary.' -- '#2. Open beats closed. #3. Connection beats transaction. #4. Simplicity beats complexity. #5. Neighborhoods beat networks. #6. Circuits beat channels. #7. Laziness beats business. #8. Public beats private. #9. Messy beats clean. #10. Good beats evil.'
economics  business  twitter  ambientimmediacy  realtime  feedback  networks  networkeffects  weakties  asymmetry  open  cooperation  coordination  collaboration  communities  markets  publics  civility  ideals  hackersvsvectoralists  #socialization  #diversity  UmairHaque 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
Principia Cybernetica Web -- The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain
'... human society is still an ambivalent system, balancing between individual selfishness and collective responsibility. However, there seems to be a continuing trend towards global integration. As technological and social systems develop into a more closely knit tissue of interactions, transcending the old boundaries between countries and cultures, the social superorganism seems to turn from a metaphor into a reality. Although many people tend to see the super-organism philosophy as a totalitarian or collectivist ideology, the opposite is true: further integration will basically increase individual freedom and diversity. A remaining question is whether this transition will lead to the integration of the whole of humanity, producing a human "super-being", or merely enhance the capabilities of individuals, thus producing a multitude of "meta-beings".'
networks  internet  cybernetics  centralnervoussystem  temes  transhumanism  gaia  #complexity  #diversity 
june 2009 by adamcrowe
BusinessWeek -- Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships
'Marlow's team recently carried out a study to determine how close we are to our friends online. They looked at how often people clicked on their friends' news or photos, how often they communicated, and if the communications traveled in both directions. Studying this data, they determined that an average Facebook user with 500 friends actively follows the news on only 40 of them, communicates with 20, and keeps in close touch with about 10. Those with smaller networks follow even fewer. What can this teach advertisers? People don't pay much attention to most of their online friends. By focusing campaigns on people who interact with each other, they'll likely get better results.' -- All this 'research', just to sell some tat. Futile and pointless. Though kinda interesting as applied to the workplace via: the megacoup. Intimates/Inmates via: the stockholm syndrome.
data  datamining  friendship  socialnetworking  socialgraph  networks  attention  influence 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson (1996)
"In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and unchronicled folk; also, biographical sketches of the two long-dead Supreme Ninja Hacker Mage Lords of global telecommunications, and other material pertaining to the business and technology of Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth, which should not be without interest to the readers of Wired." -- What hath God wrought!
*  history  technology  digital  computing  networks  internet  comunication  asymmetry  #bandwidth  arbitrage  businessmodels  NealStephenson 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Clay Shirky: 'In a curious way, this proposition exceeds the socialist promise of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" because it betters what you contribute and delivers more than you need.' -- 'The new OS is neither the classic communism of centralized planning without private property nor the undiluted chaos of a free market. Instead, it is an emerging design space in which decentralized public coordination can solve problems and create things that neither pure communism nor pure capitalism can. ...the leaders of the new socialism are extremely pragmatic. A survey of 2,784 open source developers explored their motivations. The most common was "to learn and develop new skills." That's practical. One academic put it this way: The major reason for working on free stuff is to improve my own damn software.' -- If (potatoes && power) {1. Social Capital [via status] 2. Financial Capital [via incentives] 3. ???? 4. PROFIT! [via capitalism]}
*  economics  internet  web  hackersvsvectoralists  collectivism  socialcapital  cooperation  coordination  collaboration  socialmedia  socialproduction  peerproduction  creativecommons  gifteconomy  cathedralbazaar  markets  networks  communities  #diversity  KevinKelly  "capitalism" 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness -- Networks and Heterarchies
From the linked PDF 'Neither Hierarchy nor Network: An Argument for Heterarchy by Karen Stephenson': "There is no archeological precedent for heterarchy that we know of, largely because the world and our institutions have never been this interconnected. Heterarchy is a good idea, but very difficult to implement compared to more familiar forms of hierarchies and networks. Heterarchies can be seedbeds of contagion—of ineptness, of disease and of fraud as we have witnessed in the unintended consequences of ENRON, AIDS [etc]. Or, heterarchies can link together people and institutions to solve a complex task and/or achieve a grand design. Heterarchy could portend a premier form of 21st-century governance. Or it could be a harbinger of unimaginable perversity. -- Connection by technology without trust is merely traffic. Trusted connection without technology is an opportunity lost. To survive
heterarchy  networks  hierarchy  communities  collaboration  coordination  trust  collectiveintelligence  serviceecologies  #socialization  #complexity  #diversity  pdf  retribalization 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
ScienceDaily -- Genetics Of Popularity: Genetic Influence In Social Networks Identified
'There may be an evolutionary explanation for this genetic influence and the tendency for some people to be at the center while others are at the edges of the group, according to the researchers. If a deadly germ is spreading through a community, individuals at the edges are least likely to be exposed. However, to gain access to important information about a food source, being in the center of the group has a distinct benefit.' -- But who found the new food source? Popularity = The Looooong Fail
networks  socialnetworking  popularity  propagation  contagion  parasitism  numbers  #ubiquity 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Hardcorewillneverdie.com -- RAVE TIMELINE
'The scene takes a new direction as the parties move from inner city clubs and warehouses to the countryside. The location of these events was a closelly guarded secret up untill an hour or so before the start. Meeting points would be made available through flyers and pirate radio stations. Mobile phones were still widley regarded as Yuppy toys but thanks to BT's messaging service they became an ideal way to co-ordinate people to different meeting points (Motorway service stations usually) and eventually the venue itself. It generally turned into a game of "follow the car in front" untill you find a party. By keeping the venue secret like this they could get everyone on the move heading for the party or in the wrong direction if needed. The Police have no option but to follow. So the end effect is that 1000's of people can decend on one location in a matter of minutes. Once a party goes past a certain size there is, in reality, very little the Police can do."
networks  smartmobs  coordination  navigation  #bandwidth 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Fast Company -- Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation by Tim Brown
In a "networked, participation based economy: #Network value would describe the access that an individual or organization has to new ideas and opportunities. #Brand value would describe reputation. #Social value would measure influence. #Knowledge would be measured through the number and quality of ideas and, finally, #Meaning measured through engagement. -- The measurable units of currency for networks might be #connections... For brand, reputation would be measured through #ratings... The influence generated through social value might be measured by tracking #conversations... identifying a universal measure for meaning might well be the most difficult... Somehow the stickiness of our experiences ought to be measurable and be an indication of how important to us any given experience might be [#engagement] -- Are these the right things to measure in an economy based on participation--and could their measurement result in some kind of sustainable system of growth and wealth creation?"
*  economics  currency  capital  value  measurement  participation  engagement  influence  ideas  experience  design  networks  markets  communities  #bandwidth  #processing  #storage 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (Playlist)
'The presentation that Adam Greenfield gave at Keio University's DMC Institute, Tokyo, Japan on July 15, 2006. The topic is Adam's then recently published book "Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing."'
technology  networks  computing  ubicomp  everyware  behaviours  surveillance  sousveillance  masks  plausibledeniability  ethics  interaction  design  #ubiquity  #processing  #specialization  AdamGreenfield 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Vimeo -- Bruce Sterling at Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign 2007
Everything
*  productnarratives  interaction  interface  design  technology  spimes  networks  everyware  objects  fabrication  replication  temes  mobile  #ubiquity  #diversity  BruceSterling 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Mike Arauz -- The Elements of Digital Conversation
"What makes Twitter a revolutionary communications tool is how it combines seemingly elemental aspects of digital conversation: #Place: Mobile & Web Based, #Time: Real-time & Archived, #Access: Public & Private, #Network: Open & Invite-only" -- Twitter as protocol
twitter  communication  protocols  networks  serviceecologies  #bandwidth  #storage  #processing  #diversity 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Age of Viral Feedback
"Welcome to the 21st century. What's different about a hyperconnected world? In a word: feedback. The more connected we are, the more feedback matters — because when we're all connected what I do is more likely to feed back onto you. Viral effects are a path to radical strategic innovation. Wanna get radical? Stop thinking about products, services, and processes. Ask instead how you can get viral, not just in terms of marketing, but in terms of production, distribution, pricing, logistics, or even service."
economics  networks  networkeffects  feedback  reflexivity  #socialization  UmairHaque 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Singularity Hub -- Tweetbomb: A Tweet To Shake The World
"A simple message, less than 140 characters, is sent out to followers around the world and within hours, perhaps minutes, more than 100 million people have been mobilized to act. The message might instruct those who read it to look at a certain website, protest at a designated time and place, or perform any number of other acts, promoting an agenda or cause whose intentions may be either benign or downright evil. But whatever the message, whatever its agenda or intentions, the message has been sent and the world is shaken by its power. A tweetbomb. That is what this message is called. Although we haven’t seen one yet, you better believe it is coming, and it is coming soon." -- Monkey see monkey do
twitter  push  socialmedia  themediumisthemassage  globalvillage  activism  propagation  smartmobs  swarming  networks  coordination  copy  copycat  simonsays  collectiveintelligence  anonymous  standalonecomplex  #socialization  #complexity  #ubiquity  #specialization  media  retribalization 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Twinfluence -- Twitter Influence Analyzer
"twInfluence is a simple tool for measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus." -- Measures #Most Reach #Most Velocity #Most Social Capital
twitter  popularity  bots  measurement  metrics  socialcapital  influence  networks  analytics 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Rough Type -- A new chapter in the theory of messages
'Twitter, it has become clear, was "never about what you’re doing for breakfast," as Steve Gillmor writes. It was about creating "the realtime universal message bus." It was, in other words, about building an electronic conduit, a "bus," through which the people on the network - the human nodes - can efficiently exchange what have come to be called "status updates." The use of engineering terms to describe social relations is both apt and necessary. The social network is a computer network, a platform for programming in which man and machine enter a symbiotic, or cybernetic, relationship.'
networks  socialnetworking  twitter  realtime  socialcomputing  commandline  messaging  communication  cybernetics  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  #bandwidth  #storage  #processing 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- How the Internet Got Its Rules
'TODAY is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.” Everyone was welcome to propose ideas, and if enough people liked it and used it, the design became a standard. ... without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.'
internet  history  networks  protocols  open  collaboration  emergence 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Cooperation Commons -- When Push comes To Pull: The New Economy and Culture of Networking Technology
'#We are living in an epochal period of transition bridging two very different types of economies and cultures. We are transitioning from a "push" economy: that tries to anticipate consumer demand, and then creates a standardized product, and "pushes the product into the market and culture, using standardized distribution channels and marketing. We are transitioning to a "pull" economy: open and flexible production platforms that use network technologies to coordinate many different entities from disparate regions. "Pull" economies produce customized products and services that serve localized needs (demand-driven), usually in a rapid manner.' -- Pull
economics  networks  markets  communities  commons  symbiosis  businessmodels 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
New Rules for the New Economy -- If you are not in real time, you're dead.
"Swarms need real-time communication. Living systems don't have the luxury of waiting overnight to process an incoming signal. If they had to sleep on it, they could die in their sleep. With few exceptions, nature reacts in real time. With few exceptions, business must increasingly react in real time. High transaction costs once prohibited the instantaneous completion of thousands of tiny transactions; they were piled up instead and processed in cost-effective batches. But no longer. Why should a phone company get paid only once a month when you use the phone every day? Instead it will eventually bill for every call as the call happens, in real time. Of course, not all information should flow everywhere; only the meaningful should be transmitted. But in the network economy only signals in real time (or close to it) are truly meaningful. Examine the speed of knowledge in your system. How can it be brought closer to real time?" -- The Great Compression
realtime  time  compression  networks  emergence  swarming  #socialization  #ubiquity  #complexity  KevinKelly 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Finance 2.0 Manifesto
'Today's bankers, investors, and traders will never build a better finance. Why does Wall St's business as usual seem to be gaming the rules, gambling away other people's money, and cooking the books to hide the losses? Because Wall St's operating system has a single instruction: my job is to rip your face off. Those who can rise swiftly to the top. Wall St, in other words, selects economic Jack the Rippers, rewarding and empowering those who prey on society, communities, and people. Finance 1.0 cannot power growth 2.0. Yesterday's finance cannot power tomorrow's prosperity. Bailouts, taxes, nationalization, regulation are what your discussions this week are focused on. These can limit the depth and intensity of the crash. But what they cannot do is build a radically more efficient, productive, and effective financial system. -- Let's end finance 1.0's abusive relationship with the world. Here are nine paths to igniting the next financial revolution: ...'
economics  ethonomics  manifesto  finance  growth  sustainability  ethics  markets  networks  communities  information  transparency  opensource  UmairHaque 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Fast Company -- Security: Power To The People
'In an effort to bar the door against expanding criminal networks, certain communities will move to regulate, tax, and control everything from illegal immigration to illicit drugs... A newly vigilant and networked public will push for much greater levels of transparency in government and corporate operations, using the Internet to expose, publish, and patch potential security flaws. Over time, this new transparency, and the wider participation it entails, will lead to radical improvements in government and corporate efficiency. Like the Internet, these new networks will develop slowly at first. After a period of exponential growth, however, they will quickly become all but ubiquitous--and astonishingly powerful, perhaps as powerful as the networks arrayed against us. And so we will all become security consultants, taking an active role in deciding how it is bought, structured, and applied. That's a great responsibility and, with luck, an enormous opportunity. Choose wisely.'
economics  ethonomics  networks  security  communities  energy  sustainability  opensource  strategy  crime  terrorism  war  JohnRobb  retribalization 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Portfolio.com -- The Participatory Panopticon: Dual Perspectives
Adam Greenfield: 'It will be "live feeds from massively distributed embedded sensor networks, extraordinarily complex real-time data visualizations, fully social augmented-reality overlays...” We all will be "minutely and intimately aware of every Indian woman maimed by a spurned suitor in an acid attack, every Iranian kid stoned to death for having the temerity to be born gay, every destroyed textbook in the trashed cafeteria of an abandoned Detroit high school." Unfortunately for us, quoting the Buddha, "awareness is suffering."' -- Jamais Cascio calls the unlimited-bandwidth future the "participatory panopticon," and describes a world where many will broadcast every move of their lives. Everything will be its own broadcast station, its own TV channel: Each subway train, each building, every lamp will be linked in, updating status reports and even live video to the net. The world will be defined by a cacophony of narrow-cast information, all of it begging for attention and analysis.'
sousveillance  everyware  sensors  data  objects  behaviours  panopticon  surveillance  cloud  networks  internet  #bandwidth  #socialization 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Institute of Contemporary Arts -- Our new home Cyburbia
"Only when huge digital throngs of people spontaneously arrived to crack open that information loop and add themselves as nodes on online social networks was Wiener's cybernetic vision fully realised. As armies of human nodes queued up to send and receive a constant stream of messages from their electronic ties, they unknowingly become the infrastructure and the backbone of a new kind of network or continuous information loop. Where this constant cycle of messaging and feedback has left us, I argue, is a place called Cyburbia. Cybernetics has brought us a long way, but now that its global information loop is fully built, it is in danger of leaving us lost and directionless. Now we need to spend some time thinking about the message - what it does to us to have the new communication technologies around, and how artists, culture-makers and everyone else might harness that new sensibility and turn it to their own advantage." -- (h8 cheap McLuhan derivatives ><)
McLuhan  cybernetics  networks  socialnetworking  themediumisthemessage  #bandwidth  #socialization  #processing  #complexity  media  retribalization  psychology 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
BuzzMachine -- The Great Restructuring
'... it’s hard to build a business model anymore out of screwing people - since when you do, we the screwed can rise up and be heard and fight back and make evil too expensive. Our interconnectedness is also what made the complex derivatives - the toxic assets - that triggered the financial crisis possible - but that is all the more reason why we will demand transparency, our best antidote to evil. That will change how business is run in fundamental ways.
economics  markets  networks  communities  strategy  innovation  transparency  sharing  businessmodels  serviceecologies  UmairHaque  via:damiano 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Shirky -- Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
"Prior to recent theoretical work on social networks, the usual explanations [of group inequalities] invoked individual behaviors: some members of the community had sold out, the spirit of the early days was being diluted by the newcomers, et cetera. We now know that these explanations are wrong, or at least beside the point. What matters is this: Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality. In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no members of the system actively work towards such an outcome. This has nothing to do with moral weakness, selling out, or any other psychological explanation. The very act of choosing, spread widely enough and freely enough, creates a power law distribution."
economics  networks  socialnetworking  socialsoftware  socialobjects  longtail  attention  choice  feedback  popularity  conformity  groupthink  power  success  #diversity  #specialization  ClayShirky  via:neilperkin 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
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