Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Eben Moglen

Professor Eben Moglen is a long-standing champion of free and open source software and one of the top twelve to twenty-five minds thinking deeply in the English language about the future of the Internet consistent with creating a prosperous world at peace.  Among many other accomplishments, including global mind-melds in multiple languages, Professor Moglen is …

TAKE INITIATIVE–Design the World, Don’t Edit It…

Who will say go? Here’s a little-spoken truth learned via crowdsourcing: Most people don’t believe they are capable of initiative. Initiating a project, a blog, a wikipedia article, a family journey. Initiating something even when you’re not putatitively in charge. At the same time, almost all people believe they are capable of editing, giving feedback …

Worth a Look: Cathedral vs. Bazaar (structure-design & public outcomes)

The world is assembled along the lines of certain logics.  Human organisations are also outcomes of such logics. Some organisations are assembled following the logic of the “cathedral”.  Other organisations are assembled following the logic of the “bazaar”. Cathedrals are organised as military-inspired command hierarchies.  Superior humans give orders, which must be executed by subordinate …

Worth a Look: Wealth-Generating Economies

The Forward Foundation designs and leverages Internet and network technologies to create and cultivate sustainable wealth-generating ecologies, addressing the challenges of global and local communities in the 21st century. Their Home Page 20 Books They Recommend

US Intelligence Unwitting of Most Open Sources

From my friends at Intelligence Online…. Used extensively by protesters in Egypt and Tunisia, Facebook and other social networking websites contain a wealth of useful intelligence.  However, knowing how to exploit that information is another matter. During a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein complained to Stephanie …