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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. (born 1977) is a game designer and games researcher, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games. She worked with alternate reality game design company 42 Entertainment from 2004 to 2006, on projects including I Love Bees (2004) as Community Lead / Puzzle Designer, and Last Call Poker (2005) as Live Events …

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Journal: Social Web Cannot Be Censored or Gated

Why the Social Web is the Guardian of Net Neutrality Jon Goldman Mashable EXTRACT: The rise of the social web has tipped the balance of information sharing power from corporations to users. Many of the remaining ties consumers once felt toward their favorite search engine or broadband provider have been loosened, making user recommendations the …

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Reference: How to be a data journalist–great links

How to be a data journalist Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it • Guardian data editor Simon Rogers explains how our data journalism operation works Phi Beta Iota: Most definitely worth a full read–discusses finding data, interrogating data, …

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Review (Guest): The New Social Learning–A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

Phi Beta Iota: two reviews are provided, one from the blogsphere (Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn, and one from Amazon.  If not obvious, this new trend in organizational learning assures that “secret” organizations will get dumber and dumber as time goes by. Authors:  Tony Bingham and Marcia Connor I (Bill Ives) …

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