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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘open’
Liberty and security…”2.0″!
Posted in Policy, tagged decentralization, emergence, open, organization, Web on 29 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Considering openness
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, Obama, open on 23 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It comes as no surprise, considering the rising awareness of open source technology generally, that the new President has requested a review of the possibilities made available to the government by pursuing open source solutions. The immediate benefits obviously come from decreased acquisitions costs, freedom from proprietary licensing restrictions and vendor lock-in, and a unique [...]
Open social architectures? (Pt. 2)
Posted in Policy, tagged context, Nash, non-cooperation, normative, open, Pareto, positive, semantics on 21 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An “open” system, in the sense of the previous entry, is distinguished not by anarchy as much as by an emergent rule-set among distinct participants. That is to say, in the absence of either predefined requirements or overarching control, it is participation — in accordance with the open standards of the community, negotiated in context [...]
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