Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
my article at the Atlantic Community
Check out my article at the Atlantic Community. I am back on the grid and will be posting regularly again.
off the social graph (to get married)
I will be offline for most of next week at the farmhouse, to prepare for the wedding. I might be trying mobile blogging (thoughts from the old country), but do read Brad Fitzpatrick’s “Thoughts on the Social Graph,” he focuses … Continue reading
political entrepreneurship
What do the concepts driving Web 2.0 like Longtail, Free, the economics of non-scarce resources share? They are inherently political. And that is not surprising, but it means that political theory needs to get involved into the debate and the … Continue reading
search and discovery
Do you remember the feeling of browsing through the stacks of your university library and by chance stumbling upon the book that saved your paper? This is the idea behind stumbleupon. The bigger question is what is the relationship between … Continue reading
The Ignored Elephant: Mexico in the Atlantic Community
When we think of the Atlantic Community, we think of Europe and the United States. In the 1990s a movement to include a focus on Canada, when studying North-Atlantic relations, has been fairly successful and has added value to the … Continue reading
Visualizing Transformation
The story of the following clip is much more interesting than the clip itself. It talks about the possibilities of our technologies and the sentiment of our times. Did You Know? originally started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a … Continue reading
Private Profit from Public Value?
Following a very old argument we made in 2001 (published in the ACM Journal Database for Applied Information Sciences in 2003), the challenge will be for community builders to act as political entrepreneurs telling compelling stories about their communities to … Continue reading
One ring to rule them all
with facebook opening its platform to outside developers (facebook apps) in May, speculation of who will rule the social software universe has again grown. We seem to expect a monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly like in the operating system business, search, … Continue reading
peer producing change
If you never had the time, this is a good weekend to read Benkler’s Wealth of Networks. You could start with Chapter 3. Peer production, as a mode of production will transform our “economies” as the market system did in … Continue reading
Permutations of the Privacy Debate
The privacy-in-the-Internet-Age debate has certain spiritual overtones that make it a more uncomfortable topic than it could be. I was confronted with it by Tobias yesterday at Georg Zoche’s famous Arrabiata-International-Night and just finished reading Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger‘s Useful Void – … Continue reading
