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By: Harold Jarche » Resilient Communities

Harold Jarche » Resilient Communities — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:33:09 +0000

[...] John also emphasized how all of the initiatives were grassroots and started with little, if any, funding. Furthermore, using the Net to share information is one of the greatest assets we have in creating resilient communities: aka ridiculously easy group-forming. [...]

By: Harold Jarche » Institutions follow

Harold Jarche » Institutions follow — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:07 +0000

[...] same time the Internet has changed the way we work, learn and most importantly, converse. Combine ridiculously easy group-forming with energy scarcity and you get the demise of command & control and mass production & [...]

By: Harold Jarche » Grassroots Community Building through Social Networks

Harold Jarche » Grassroots Community Building through Social Networks — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:40:00 +0000

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By: Harold Jarche » Throwing sheep in the boardroom

Harold Jarche » Throwing sheep in the boardroom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:41:05 +0000

[...] course text book. For excellent analysis, without all the details, I would recommend Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and for a deeper look at the fundamentals underlying the Internet economy I still consider [...]

By: david

david — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:26:03 +0000

there’s also a really interesting conversation between clay shirky and daniel goleman which one can listen to samples of at morethansound.net

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:31:14 +0000

It is a common saying that the luxury of one generation is the necessity of the
next. Social networks are here to stay. So what will the next generation social network look like. How will Semantic and emerging technologies transform these network?

And for those who argued a while back that this internet thing was a fad… hmmm… how wrong can someone be and still go to heaven.

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:56:19 +0000

I read Harold’s meaning that technology becomes invisible in the sense of being taken for granted. Stewart Brand years ago predicted that computers were about to disappear from view the way motors had. “No one called the automobile…a personal railroad, but that’s what it was….then motors got smaller and disappeared into…toothbrushes, wristwatches…”

I think most people assume now that other people have email and mobile phones. If like me someone has a land line, he’ll say, “This is my cell phone,” otherwise not. It’s just how you call him.

Facebook and similar tools are still pretty new to many people, but I’m sure the St. John parent or one of her allies readily helps the newcomer put Facebook to use. “All you do is sign up, create an idea, and then…”

In fact, I think that’s how this sort of tool moves into the midrange of the bell curve: people have a specific need/problem/opportunity (“keep the language immersion) and get the tool for that specific purpose. Success breeds confidence breeds extension to other realms in a person’s life.

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:36:11 +0000

“and invisible is coming”

No.

There is no support for the idea that communication or any technology ever becomes invisible. Quite the opposite. Pervasive and corruptive is much more accurate. Cars, planes, telephones, PC’s, blue-tooth, are all disruptive technologies that strain the fabric of society in ever increasing ways. Pervasive, yes. But Invisible? Not in the least. My wife teaches. Recently emails were discovered detailing sexual assaults…DETAILING assaults on fellow 4th and 5th graders.

Is this changing the kids? I think so.

By: Marsh

Marsh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:20:40 +0000

Thanks for the excellent quotes and for your posts in general. I subscribed about a month ago, and have been enjoying your perspective.

You might enjoy this recently posted mp3 of Brian Eno and Clay Shirky talking about the Power of Networks.

(In case the markup gets stripped, here’s the url: http://www.mamk.net/?p=740 )