Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Distributed Intelligence
It is always worthwhile to read Kevin Kelly! …the snowballing success of Google this past decade suggests the coming AI will not be bounded inside a definable device. It will be on the web, like the web. The more people … Continue reading
Ushahidi – crowdsourcing Information in times of crisis
Ushahidi is one of those projects that radically transforming social life. Ushahidi, which means ”testimony” in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 (I … Continue reading
Books I ordered at Amazon this year
I just went through the books I ordered (unfortunately, I found no way to export the data elegantly). Here they are, without the author (google them) but with comments: Through A Glass Darkly (Donna Leon, a perfect Christmas read for … Continue reading
Free Thinking
Do follow Chris Anderson’s reflections, while he is writing…
Ambient awareness
To understand services like twitter and how they are shaping our social graphs, read today’s NYT Magazine at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?pagewanted=all cheers from Cancun airport (ambient info)
Colombia 2.0
I just came back from Colombia, teaching Government 2.0 as a compact course. To see pictures, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/philippmueller/ColombiaJuly2008 My argument in the course was that new modes of collobaration that become possible when technologies and new social practices reduce … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow in Cambridge
Do watch Cory’s presentation in Cambridge. it is worth it…. cheers, Philipp
Living Network Society
political theories once accepted rapidly are backgrounded. Therefore, there was not much ado about McCain using Versionista to argue about Obama’s Iraq War stance. But we should step back and celebrate the complexity of “living network society.” The latest addition … Continue reading
the tattered ruins of the state
Google announced that they were adding “Map-Maker” to Google maps, allowing you to participate in creating/adapting/changing the maps of our worlds. For the analysis go to: Mashable John BattelleTechdirt Of course, Jorge Borges, On Exactitude in Science” comes to mind, … Continue reading
Where does your value lie?
As companies that are very serious about profit are open sourcing their platforms, we need really reflect what they mean, when they say “our value lies in the community not the technology.” What sounds like an innocent buzz-word is really … Continue reading
