A tendency that I continue to find somewhat puzzling — and hopefully it’s only an error in perception, but I seriously doubt it — is the evidently sincere notion held in certain places that undirected community interactions and willing cooperation across levels of organization can somehow be bundled and consolidated into singular activities, platforms, programs, [...]
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Consolidation
Posted in Policy, tagged context, decentralization, emergence, organization on 30 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Liberty and security…”2.0″!
Posted in Policy, tagged decentralization, emergence, open, organization, Web on 29 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really don’t like that meme. It’s been applied to too much by too many and might as well just be synonymous with “new and improved”. Sure, there’s plenty of transformative stuff going on under the designation, but also plenty of misdirection to cloak the old in the new. Kind of like, if you have [...]
Good intentions…
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, design, emergence, open, organization on 21 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been mulling over some items that caught my attention this past week that highlight some divergent angles being taken to address essentially similar problems: Web communications, decentralized authority, and agile organization. Though it would be too much to assume anything about the motives behind these various initiatives, what came to mind is that cliché [...]
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