Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Sisyphus and Social Software
The biggest disappointment of social software today is that either you cannot actually do anything online (e.g. Xing, LinkedIn, Transnational Republic) except setting up your network or that what you do online is about as senseless as Sisyphus’ rolling his … Continue reading
The Politics of One-Laptop-Per-Child
The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) has been able to capture the imagination of the world in a surprising way. Nicholas Negroponte and his team have understood the politics of networked life in a way that not many others … Continue reading
The Political Economy of Irrelevance
As I am moving from an institutional job that came with a captive audience (being a professor at a university) to thinking and writing about living-network-society, I am confronted with the harsh realities of the political economy of irrelevance. How … Continue reading
Business Process Modeling and Network Society
On friday in EGAP we are organizing a workshop on business process modeling (BPM) in public administration (3-6 pm, Room 104, EGAP, Mexico). The workshop builds on issues we have been working on in the last semesters, focusing on how … Continue reading
Mainstreaming Project Finance
As a political scientist, I believe, that project finance is too important and relevant in today’s world to be left to the economists. If we assume that public value creation today depends on multi-sectoral and multi-level coalitions and legitimacy is … Continue reading
Bottling Creativity
Pam Samuelson has just posted a new article on copyright reform. She criticizes the complexity, incomprehensibility, and imbalance of the Copyright Act of 1976 and outlines a the core principals of any intellectual property regime that could be used as … Continue reading
Battling for the Institutional Ecology of Tomorrow – A Call to Arms
[Challenge] In 2002 the world came together in Monterrey to address the millennium development goals. The goals were developed by governments for governments. Today, global problems and global interconnectedness are challenging us to reflect how we govern social life on … Continue reading
On Expertise – authority, legitimacy, and CTS
As a European family we are trying to meet all our transportation needs with public transportation, bicycles, and roller blades. Therefore, on Saturday we were in the market for a Child Transportation System (CTS) – a bicycle trailer that can … Continue reading
Magical Network Society
Today, several million people on this planet are immersed in the deathly hallows of Harry Potter’s seventh year. I took my copy of a staple in the main bookstore in Munich, remembering buying the last one in Berlin, the one … Continue reading
backing up data online: hoping for the evernet
after having lost one year of Mexico and family pictures to a broken external hard drive, I have been looking at online storage solutions. In a perfect world all data would be automatically online, however, we would not even notice … Continue reading
