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"The Synaptic Web is not new. It is not a recent trend. It is something that s..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:36:21 GMT

"The Synaptic Web is not new. It is not a recent trend. It is something that started before the advent of HTTP and HTML gave birth to the actual Web and will continue long after the boom of 'real-time' fades away. It is a simple observation that the most interesting aspect of the Internet generally and the Web specifically is not the nodes on the network, but the type, density and flexibility of the connection between them.

We use the metaphor of the Synapse (the connection between brain cells) as a way to try to relate this idea to the real world - a literal mental model if you will, and over the years, we've observed these connections have morphed in surprising ways. Nodes have atomized (i.e. nodes are now more granular and there are more of them) and the nature of the connections are changing at an accelerating rate."

–louisgray.com: Synaptic Web: Realtime is Just the Beginning

"The perceptive systemic dynamics of information/knowledge processing depend, ..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:21:32 GMT

"The perceptive systemic dynamics of information/knowledge processing depend, directly, upon agile local cognitive systemic weavings, supported by interconnected cooperative systemic networks, and, indirectly, depend upon local mechanisms, connected to nonlocal cognitive interfaces, in which intervene cognitive dynamics of abstraction, supported by local systemic dynamics of reflection, reflexivity and reflexibility."

–Philosophy, Systems Theory and Risk Science: On perception...

"“Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur” Medieval adage that synt..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:20:46 GMT

“Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur”

Medieval adage that synthesizes an eidos of proportion: Whatever is received is received according to the mode of receiving of the receiver

The (re)tension and the (pro)tension (from the Latin tensio) can consistently be synthesized in an abstract language, as primitive notions to the gathering and utilization of information, in the assumption that the patterns that configure the systems incorporate, in their formative nature, mechanisms of potential rotative projective resonance, linked to the reflexibility of the systems, with appetence and capability to place in relation that which in the systems is the act made proportionately available as presence to the potency (semper quod ens) and that, because of that, determines it.

–Philosophy, Systems Theory and Risk Science: (re)tension and the (pro)tension: proportion

"Increasingly, large media organizations are learning and adapting to the noti..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:02:48 GMT

Increasingly, large media organizations are learning and adapting to the notion that their job is changing. It is moving from 100% content creation through editorial processes to a mix of original content and what many call ‘content curation’.

That is, observing, hand selecting and adding value to content from the social, real-time web. ...

This trend is unfolding for many reasons. Economic constraints, technology advances, the evolution of social media and the emergence of the real-time web mean that everyone with a Twitter account can contribute to telling and spreading the story.

–Got Kit? JS-Kit/Echo » "The Transformation from Creation to Curation"

"A recent article in The New York Times discussed the innovation process at Ap..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:53:45 GMT

A recent article in The New York Times discussed the innovation process at Apple. Clearly the process begins and ends with Steve Jobs. And clearly Mr. Jobs is a creative genius. He also has a lot of help with top notch design engineers. As a result, Apple is perceived as one of the most innovative companies on the planet.

If you have visionary leadership at your company, this might be a good way to go. But companies like Procter & Gamble (P&G) also have strong leadership and they have taken a different route to innovation. P&G has been a leader in Open Innovation, and many of the new products they have launched in the past few years have come from outside the company.

–Blogging Innovation - Innovation blog articles, videos, and insights

"In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that ..."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:33:24 GMT

"In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways"

–Data and transparency: Of governments and geeks | The Economist

"Patterning problems: patterning the problematique The number of problems and..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:18:15 GMT

Patterning problems: patterning the problematique

The number of problems and their degree of interrelationship are a continuing challenge to comprehension. Without any patterning, the amount of information is overwhelming. The simplistic patternings characteristic of conventional practice in documentation systems are however part of the conceptual problem rather than the solution. They disguise complexity and create deceptive impressions of order where order is lacking, or rather where higher forms of order are implicit.

–World problems project - commentaries | Union of International Associations

"The "Do Good Gauge"; Measuring the Democratic Value of an Intelligent Argumen..."

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:08:55 GMT

The "Do Good Gauge"; Measuring the Democratic Value of an Intelligent Argument

"Humans have learned scientifically that the exact truth can never be attained or told. We can reduce the degree of tolerated error, but we have learned physically, as Heisenberg discovered, that exactitude is prohibited, because most exquisite physical experiment has shown that "the act of measuring always alters that which is measured".
Buckminster Fuller

–The Do Good Gauge - The Buckminster Fuller Connection

"An amusing yet deep cutting article titled 'Renouncing Evil Powers' appeared ..."

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:39:17 GMT

"An amusing yet deep cutting article titled 'Renouncing Evil Powers' appeared in the International Herald Tribune this morning written by Garrison Keillor. My favorite quote from the article goes like this, "War requires very well-brought-up people to do vicious things that they are able to do efficiently because the recipients of their viciousness are unknown to them.""

–Seasonal Paradise: Is Facebook A Catalyst For World Peace?

"Don't Be a JerkBack when dinosaurs ruled the earth, FM 22-100, Military Leade..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:15:43 GMT

Don't Be a Jerk

Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, FM 22-100, Military Leadership, listed a sense of humor as one of the 23 traits of character. If memory serves, it was number sixteen down the list, between Candor and Competence. So we all got shot up or shot down — big deal. Berating other players sucks the life out of everyone; likewise, we can see the score and know you did a great job."

–SimHQ.com - Land Combat Zone - Roger, Out! TeamSpeak Rules of the Road

"In P2P James Burke reports: "Stefan Meretz has produced, with his daughter, a..."

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:08:52 GMT

"In P2P James Burke reports: "Stefan Meretz has produced, with his daughter, a very useful and clear taxonomy of common goods, according to five criteria." viz:

"Commons are common pool resources. Commons are common goods. Commons are social relationships. You can find all of these descriptions for the term. Which is the correct one? All three versions are valid—at the same time! The word „common“ is the best starting point for the analysis. The common thing within a commons are the resources, which are used and cared for, are the goods resulting from joint activities, and are the social relationships emerging from acting together. These three aspects are so different for all commons, that no one could describe them in a reasonably complete manner."

–P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Commons in a taxonomy of goods

"From paperwork to public buildings, from social networks to street protests, ..."

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:04:53 GMT

"From paperwork to public buildings, from social networks to street protests, the liberal project has always relied on a set of tools and techniques to make its way in the world. Sometimes it finds these tools lying around; other times it is forced to forge them on its own. The purpose of this working group will be to study the technics of liberal states, societies, and social movements in historical and comparative contexts.

[...] What can technics tell us about liberalism, its pasts, its presents, its futures, its powers, and its failures? How have liberal technics circulated between metropoles, colonies, and postcolonies? Do neoliberal or illiberal projects rely on qualitatively different tools and techniques? How and why are non-liberal techniques marshaled in the name of liberalism? What happens when liberal technics break down, or fail to engage? What accounts for liberalism’s resiliency, and what are its limits? And finally, how can the "global university," with its contradictory imperatives to reproduce and critique these technics, work to ensure that liberalism becomes increasingly democratic?"

–Technics of Liberalism | Institute for Public Knowledge

""Could Data Governance Help the War on Terror?" > http://bit.ly/8xAbto <..."

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:56:43 GMT

""Could Data Governance Help the War on Terror?" > http://bit.ly/8xAbto < "the government should be addressing process issues." (Follow @jilldyche)"

–Ben Tremblay (bentrem) on Twitter

"One California community is honing in on this vulnerable segment of the homel..."

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:53:27 GMT

"One California community is honing in on this vulnerable segment of the homeless population. The Ventura County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness calls for a zero-tolerance policy of discharging people from jails, hospitals and other institutions to the streets. The plan also requires a coordinated effort to cut the number being discharged into homelessness by at least 10 percent annually"

–Replacing the Revolving Door With the Front Door | End Homelessness | Change.org

"[The] study on "Social Software and National Security," out of the Pentagon-s..."

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:08:09 GMT

[The] study on "Social Software and National Security," out of the Pentagon-sponsored National Defense University, that actually makes sense. Written by Mark Drapeau and former Pentagon CIO Lin Wells, the upcoming paper takes a clear-eyed view of what these new apps can do — and makes some smart, if basic, suggestions for how government types might uses the tools.

NB: see "Missional Government 2.0" and "Crossing Over Technology With Government" at Technosailor.com

–WTF? Military Web 2.0 Report Actually Making Sense | Danger Room | Wired.com

"Gnit Pick from nit·pick (nit'pik') intr.v. nit·picked, nit·pick·ing, n..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:22:15 GMT

Gnit Pick

from nit·pick (nit'pik')
intr.v. nit·picked, nit·pick·ing, nit·picks

verb (used with object)

1. to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
2. to criticize by focusing on inconsequential details.

noun
3. a carping, petty criticism.

adjective
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a nitpicker or nitpicking.
Also, nit-pick or gnit-pick

Origin:
1965-70; nit 1 + pick 1
Dictionary.com Unabridged

–Definition of Nitpick at Dictionary.com

"It does seem to me that those who believe that humans are causing the planet ..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:06:34 GMT

It does seem to me that those who believe that humans are causing the planet to warm may be guilty of some dirty tricks regarding peer review inclusion of dissenting views. This is a shame because peer review and debate to me is a time-honored tradition and through the friction of opposing views, observers can come to informed conclusions.

I wish political arguments on say health care used peer review. Then most of us Americans might know a bit more about what we are talking about and logic might prevail over emotions.

–Climate Debate accelerates as Copenhagen begins - Global Neighbourhoods --Shel Israel

The Computer and Information Sciences Research Group leads and manages an adv...

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:41:05 GMT

The Computer and Information Sciences Research Group leads and manages an advanced technology program that can research, identify, understand, develop, and apply new and emerging technologies for transforming raw data items into actionable information.

"If there exists one unique great imperial power which is always convinced tha..."

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:02:01 GMT

"If there exists one unique great imperial power which is always convinced that its most brutal interests coincide with the Good; if it is true that every year the USA spends more on their military budget than Russia, China, France, England and Germany put together; and if that Nation-State, devoted to military excess, has no public idol other than wealth, no allies other than servants, and no view of other peoples apart from an indifferent, commercial and cynical one; then the basic freedom of States, peoples and individuals consists in doing everything and thinking everything in order to escape, as much as possible, from the commandments, interventions and interference of that imperial power.

From Philosophy and the 'war against terrorism' in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy.

–Alain Badiou - Wikiquote

"Where thought comes to a standstill in a constellation saturated with tension..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:35:43 GMT

"Where thought comes to a standstill in a constellation saturated with tension, there appears the dialectical image, it is the caesura in the movement of thought. It is to be sought at the point where the tension between the dialectical oppostions is the greatest"

--Walter Benjamin, "Erkenntnistheorietisches, Theorie des Fortschritts" (1937)
Introduction to "Tantra

–"Tantra: sex, secrecy politics, and Power in the Study of Religion"; Google Books

"Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to make the agony of decision-m..."

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:23:10 GMT

"Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking.

Fred W. Friendly

–What Why How? - Fred Friendly Seminars

"We asked human observers to adjust the color of natural fruit objects until t..."

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:27:42 GMT

"We asked human observers to adjust the color of natural fruit objects until they appeared achromatic. The objects were generally perceived to be gray when their color was shifted away from the observersal gray point in a direction opposite to the typical color of the fruit. These results show that color sensations are not determined by the incoming sensory data alone, but are significantly modulated by high-level visual memory.

[Entasis in action? -bdt]"

–Banana Blues « Brain Hammer

"The ability to meet anticipated and unanticipated information needs is rapidl..."

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:07:53 GMT

"The ability to meet anticipated and unanticipated information needs is rapidly emerging. Information sharing is becoming a reality. Stove-piped systems, unique and tailored programs, hard-wired connections, point-to-point limitations, and information hoarding are becoming a thing of the past. Strategies that ensure the visibility, accessibility, usability, and trust worthiness of information by the entire enterprise are in place. Common needs are being met with programs and services that can be leveraged by the entire community.

Moving from a culture in which information is considered power and something to be “owned”, to one that leverages the power of information and becomes its stewards, requires both senior leader priority and long-term persistence. It will not happen overnight. It must be a sustained effort. The policies and practices are in place. Much experience has been gained. Programs have been expanded, others curtailed. The road is long and has many twists and turns, but our mission, Enable Net Centric Information Sharing, must be our common goal."

–About ASD (NII) / DoD CIO - Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration and Department of Defense Chief Information Officer

"intelligent data fusion is the combination of unbiased pattern recognition te..."

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:41:36 GMT

"intelligent data fusion is the combination of unbiased pattern recognition techniques with expert information about the strengths and weaknesses associated with the data acquisition techniques and expert knowledge of the geology, foliage, and man-made features located at the site under scrutiny. Data from multiple sensing modalities are utilized in an overall decision-making algorithm that is theoretically more accurate than any individual sensor on its own.

The two most well-known theoretical data fusion approaches are those formulated by Bayesian inference theory and by Dempster-Shafer theory. Bayesian theory, the older and more established of the two, is founded on a rigorous statistical framework and generally requires significant statistical assumptions regarding the input data. Dempster- Shafer can be thought of as a relaxation of Bayesian theory in which subject belief assessments are utilized and can be assigned to supersets of hypotheses as well as to single hypotheses. "

–DTIC.mil "Strategic Environment Research and Development"; "Intelligent Data Fusion for Wide-Area Assessment"

"Now, facts and analysis may be shared, vetted, sourced and debated internally..."

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:30:54 GMT

"Now, facts and analysis may be shared, vetted, sourced and debated internally, with a focus on discovery instead of control. Notably, the suite of social computing tools that are being used are distributed throughout the sixteen different intelligence agencies. Where analysts once might have used email and slides to share knowledge, now they can move their insights ont othe platform. Agents in Iraq can (and do) edit and collaborate in real-time with great effect with the distributed global intelligence community, posting videos, documents and commentary. Simply replacing Powerpoint with a wiki turns out to an incredibly powerful tool."

–What is Intellipedia? Burke and Dennehy explain how wikis are being used at the CIA - Our Latest Discovery

"In his blogpost Al Selvin quotes this paper, quite adequately depicting what ..."

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:31:26 GMT

"In his blogpost Al Selvin quotes this paper, quite adequately depicting what moved me towards my "restricted case" method:

"As an individual moves through an experience, each moment is potentially a sense-making moment. The essence of that sense-making moment is assumed to be addressed by focusing on how the actor defined and dealt with the situation, the gap, the bridge, and the continuation of the journey after crossing the bridge." --- Brenda Dervin, “From the mind's eye of the user”

To show this graphically, the Quest Map presentation of a discussion ... what I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole."

–Knowledge Art: More on "Species of Sensemaking", in Al Selvin's "KnowledgeArt"

"It went on like that for two hours, with each person speaking only ..."

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:11:43 GMT

"It went on like that for two hours, with each person speaking only once. As it proceeded, I noticed that speakers were increasingly taking into account what previous people had said. Even though there was no back-and-forth, and no facilitator, the monologues began to sound more and more like dialogue. I was REALLY blown away when one speaker after another began saying things that had only occurred to me moments before. I heard the ambivalences and nuances in my own head and heart being spoken and wrestled with in the public conversation I was part of. I started to sense us all working our way into what some native peoples call "One Big Mind." From the inside, I could feel that big Peace March Mind struggling to come to terms with all the elements of this difficult problem that it faced. It was doing just what my own mind does: "Well, let's see, if I do THIS, then.... but no, that wouldn't be so good. So I should try THIS, and then... But I need to take into account this other thing... etc."

[...]

Years later I read that Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onandaga Iroquois, said of his tribal council tradition: "We just keep talking until there's nothing left but the obvious truth." Once "the obvious truth" has been found, there is no need for a "decision." Such truth not only sets people free -- it allows a group or community to self-organize."

–How to Make a Decision Without Making a Decision; Tom Atlee; Co-Intelligence.org

"You have to understand that I’m very much “out of the loop” so my use of term..."

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:46:08 GMT

You have to understand that I’m very much “out of the loop” so my use of terms is heh quite other than hermetic. My take on things is probably more abhidharmic than cog-psych.

“Discourse variance” isn’t well enough known; depending on context (i.e. situational motivation) individuals can adopt quite different rhetorical positions, each one showing some consistency. That, for me, is seminal. In designing a soc-psych experiment (Dalhousie) is occurred to me that control of discourse via computer might “tease out” a person’s “cast of characters”. By an accident of scholarship I happened to have a Jurgen Habermas text at my left elbow one evening and I realized such an approach might simulate an honest interlocutor … drawing out the subjective narrative w/o doing violence to shared facts.

So … entasis curves a line so that it appears straight, yes? My “gnodal” approach follows the bends that are introduced by individuals who wish a given argument to appear true. (If I were a scholar I’d explore this as an aspect of rhetoric … aesthetics and communicative gestures?)

–IBIS, dialogue mapping, and the art of collaborative knowledge creation « Eight to Late

Peasant Zen dictates otherwise:

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:31:17 GMT

[Reposted from emilyparty via hungryforlife]

At the end of the day
I have ahead of me the long hours of a full night.

"Recently I’ve been playfully applying the term entasis; data might have some ..."

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:35:56 GMT

"Recently I’ve been playfully applying the term entasis; data might have some ontic / objective value but what I’m grappling with is the way the human individual projects meaning … cognitive schema in action … valence. I think that’s the hidden variable in decision making."

–IBIS, dialogue mapping, and the art of collaborative knowledge creation at Eight to Late

"[W]hile busied in considering the manners of other men, I found here, too, sc..."

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:07:22 GMT

"[W]hile busied in considering the manners of other men, I found here, too, scarce any ground for settled conviction, and remarked hardly less contradiction among them than in the opinions of the philosophers. So that the greatest advantage I derived from the study consisted in this, that, observing many things which, however extravagant and ridiculous to our apprehension, are yet by common consent received and approved by other great nations, I learned to entertain too decided a belief in regard to nothing of the truth of which I had been persuaded merely by example and custom"

–Discourse on Method Part I; Descartes, René

"[I]t occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of e..."

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:05:31 GMT

"[I]t occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each individual with reference to the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted by a man of letters in his study, regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense"

–Discourse on Method Part I.; Descartes, René

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt ..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:45:18 GMT

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
"

–~ George Bernard Shaw

""The very idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty..."

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:16:55 GMT

""The very idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination." -- Bertrand Russell"

–BlogSpot.com: User Profile: dominic di zinno

"Those dwelling in the house of virtue may be lonely at time, but those who pr..."

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:51:55 GMT

"Those dwelling in the house of virtue may be lonely at time, but those who prosper by fawning upon the powerful are forlornly alone for ten thousand ages. The master looks to matters that are beyond matters, and muses on the body that is beyond the body. It is better to be lonely at times than to face ten thousand ages of forlorness."

–Amazon.com: Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living; : Hong Zicheng, Robert Aitken, and Daniel W.Y.

""Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nas..."

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:05:19 GMT

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."

- John Maynard Keynes

–Axis of Justice | Activism 101

"The work has "to be neither moralizing nor sentimental, but to put morals an..."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:59:58 GMT

"The work has "to be neither moralizing nor sentimental, but to put morals and sentimentality on view." -Berthold Brecht
[And the mandate of anthropology? To make explicit what is routinely taken for granted. -bdt]"

–Aric Mayer Studios

"Thank you for joining جنبش اعتراض سبز! ..."

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:58:22 GMT

Thank you for joining جنبش اعتراض سبز!

به جنبش اعتراض سبز خوش آمدید! امروز رنگ سبز ما نه در حمایت از موسوی ، بلکه در حمایت از رای خودمان است. ما اعتراض خود را با رنگ سبز نشان میدهیم. این آرام ترین و مشخص ترین نوع اعتراض است

— Hadi Farnoud (creator)

–Translation please! Causes on Facebook | جنبش اعتراض سبز | Welcome

"Plugin developers are the heart and soul of WordPress. WordPress plugin deve..."

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:55:54 GMT

"Plugin developers are the heart and soul of WordPress. WordPress plugin developers not only extend the core functionality of WP but they drive innovation for the popular blogging platform. Compared to other blogging platforms, WordPress arguably possesses the strongest and most generous community of all. Despite this however, WP plugin developers receive very little compensation for their efforts to supply the WP plugin repository with quality free plugins. Many developers reach a point at which they are simply unable to continue long-term support their plugins."

–WordPress Plugin Developers Need Better Business Model

"Any information is only as good as is the source it comes from. It does not m..."

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:23:05 GMT

"Any information is only as good as is the source it comes from. It does not matter if it is information about dependability or height. There may be objective facts, but information is always subjective. Even if it tells about objective facts."

–Storm Alert » Reputation for Subjectivity