Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Politics 2.0
Politics 2.0 works if it is manageable, digestable, and segmentable. Check out www.changecongress.org and Larry Lessig’s latest presentation (basically you can skip to minute 45.30). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3B_P5IJqs&hl=en]
Strategy 2.0
Strategy as we know it is rapidly becoming irrelevant. Strategy (based on Clausewitz’ian thinking) was about positioning products, companies, and portfolios of products/companies in competitive landscapes or the search for white spaces, where you could escape the competitive pressure of … Continue reading
Government 2.0
Last week I started teaching government 2.0. We want to understand the impact of web 2.0 technologies on the transformation of public value creation in today’s world. Super-simple group forming (think facebook, wikipedia, meetup, xing, linkedin, plaxo, twitter, dodgeball, flickr, … Continue reading
Sheep 2.0
This morning, I arrived at the airport only to find out that my flight to Atlanta was canceled and that I was at the end of the line of unhappy stranded passengers, waiting for their flights to be re-booked. I … Continue reading
Wiki-Politics From an Analyst’s Perspective
Anyone who has been famous for the famous fifteen minutes knows that the biographical battles on Wikipedia can get very nasty. However, in an interesting twist Eve Fairbanks reflects in the New Republic on what a political analyst can deduce … Continue reading
A Potemkin-esque Notebook Market
Maybe you have tasted Linux and liked it. Maybe you are looking forward to the next iteration of Ubuntu/Fedora/Whatever and hope that finally, it will actually work. Maybe you have been thinking about buying a dedicated Linux machine? – If … Continue reading
Understanding Internet-Mediated Organizations
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard Law School just hosted Clay Shirky to present his newest book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008). In the video Clay Shirky discussed his new book, watch … Continue reading
A More Perfect Union… For A Networked World
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo&hl=en] in case you have not yet seen it, watch it and reflect on what it means not for the U.S., but for our worlds.
Education for/in Network Society
When asking how to bring technology into the classroom, one needs to ask what are the options, before choosing. Options are not value-neutral, but carry with them very specific ideological connotations. At the Public Policy for Network Society Conference, we … Continue reading
Public Policy for Network Society: The Politics of Technology Policy
On April 11/12 we are organizing a conference in Monterrey, Mexico that aims to put technology policy square in the middle of the public policy debate in Mexico (Harvard Kennedy School, EGAP, CIAPEM). http://www.ppfornetworksociety.org/ Here is my argument that is … Continue reading
