Comments on: The net regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it

By: Harold Jarche » The value of social media for learning

Harold Jarche » The value of social media for learning — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:45:55 +0000

[...] 1. We live in a networked society. More of our work is being done within and between networks. In networks, there are no standard communication routes or protocols. Things get done in a much messier and uncontrolled fashion. You can’t impose a hierarchy and try to control all of the interactions and communications in a network. The network regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it. [...]

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:41:13 +0000

I use Meraki as well .. bought one about a month ago .. if I could get one in a one building on each block east and west of where i live close to downtown Vancouver, we’d have a nice bit of coverage happening.

As I think Harold knows, from a sociological rather than technical stance I played around about 18 months ago with McLuhan’s aphorism, turning it into “the medium is the meaning … that we consume and create together”, which I’d argue is what the Web is letting us, or helping us, do.

By: Robert Paterson

Robert Paterson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:46:40 +0000

Great article – I am using Meraki at home to mesh my property – finding it very useful – thinking of taking one on the road so that I can get wifi in my hotel rooms

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:38:40 +0000

Excellent article and well worth reading.

Mcluhanistic thinking applies here. “The Network is the message”. The underlying carrier makes censorship very difficult. It also makes diffusion of propaganda (advertising) difficult. Layers built on top of the carrier will tend to exhibit the same properties.

The “Mob” concept is somewhat similar to Buckminster Fuller’s “Pirate” concept.

The author is on to something important.

Gilbert