Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Making internet communities work: reflections on an unusual business model
In 2000 and 2001 (during the height of the internet bubble), Bernie Krieger and I wrote an article at the University of Maastricht focusing on a fairly undeveloped concept: online communities. The article, Making internet communities work: reflections on an … Continue reading
Social Media Literacy
Probably we overstretch the metaphor of literacy when we want to talk about what it means to participate in networked societies. However, as the amount of media that we can use explodes (think twitter, facebook, dropbox, wordpress, or typo3), we … Continue reading
Network Mobility
The NYTIMES has an article on a German suburb to Freiburg, where people do not use cars. It shows in how much, moving from a car-centric world to a mobile people world is an epistemological challenge. Our family just did … Continue reading
What Mexico and the US need to learn from Europe after 1990
Larry Rohter writes about Mexico and the US in the New York Times today, Today, like it or not, the two countries are bound together inextricably in ways that would have been unthinkable during my time here. There is an … Continue reading
Wrapping our minds around “Free”
In October 2004, Chris Anderson developed the concept of the long tail to describe the niche strategy of businesses that sell a large number of unique items, each in relatively small quantities: the distribution and inventory costs of these businesses … Continue reading
Entwarnung [all-clear]: Facebook does not make you stupid!
Last month Aryn Karpinski, a doctoral student at Ohio State argued in an unpublished draft article that College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than students who have not signed up for … Continue reading
Facebook and The Department of Mary Jones
Jerry Mechling (KSG) asked all of us to collaboratively think about game changing issues in the financial crisis at Leadership for a Networked World. Bob Knisely, former Deputy Director of the National Performance Review/National Partnership for Reinventing Government, posted a … Continue reading
Viennese Networking
as we are learning to walk the network society walk, it might make sense to learn from cultures that have been organized along similar lines. Venice of the late 13th Century immediately comes to mind, but also Vienna [full disclosure:Â … Continue reading
My Country is Different
in May 2009 many of “us” are getting social media and do believe that “web 2.0” has the potential to be a game changer. However, the critique of the new way of organizing collective action is to be taken seriously. … Continue reading
Shaping Network Society
For the last four years, this blog has been headed “living-network-society.†At the time it had been a rather preposterous title for an important conversation. Today, living network society has become mainstreamed. But policy questions about our networked environments have … Continue reading
