Wirearchy

Demos is a forward-looking think tank in the UK, focused on socio-economic and cultural issues
de Tutor is a forward-looking concierge in Dallas, Texas, bootblack to the Stars and founder of a virtual series of recovery-based revivalist seminars held in the alley.
Demos is cited in an important piece by Jay Rosen with respect to the increasingly [...]

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From Jay Rosen’s important essay “Bloggers vs. Journalists Is Over”
Distributed journalism. Open Source journalism. Citizens media. Citizen journalism. We media. Participatory media. Participatory journalism.
These are the new names for the discussion that first grew up around blogging. Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute noticed it:
“The earthquake and tsunamis in South Asia and their aftermath [...]

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via Scripting News:
Reuters: “The US government, 40 states and territories, and outside groups from the National Football League to the Christian Coalition of America asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hold services like Grokster and Morpheus accountable for the millions of copyrighted files traded over their networks.” 

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Thanks to Harold Jarche for clueing me in … I missed # 9.  I must have been looking at this one so hard the other day that I thought I posted it … the software’s not quite that good yet.
 We’re All In This Together
 

The interconnected Information Age is beginning to show us that we’re all [...]

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I know this has been done to death, but what will it take to admit that the WOT (War on Terror) and WOT II (War on Tyranny) are both ill-conceived and unwinnable, at least when it comes to force. As the cover below asks, when will be ….      Powered By Qumana

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There’s No Going Back to “Normal” –
Permanent Whitewater is the New Normal
 

It’s almost trite to say this – the only constant is change.
However…over the past 15 years or so, there have been enormous amounts of energy spent resisting change – waiting and hoping for things to go back to “normal”.
It won’t happen.  It’s useful [...]

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 I’ve had similar experiences and feel the same way as Mark, a commenter on John Perry Barlow’s most recent post.January 26, 2005 06:58 AM28 - MarkVery cool story. I have made many e-friends. Very fast friends with whom I “converse” several times a week. I know their likes, wants, needs, desires. About their families, jobs, [...]

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John Perry Barlow on the experience of random reaching out via Skype and email. The whole story’s here, and it’s wonderful. The bottom line is this: they reached at random out into the Datacloud and found a real friend. And I feel like I have been graced with a real friend in both of them. Given the [...]

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Fun and to-the-point post by Hugh Macleod, riffing on a post at Buzz Machine. Advertisers: You have lost control of your message. Get over it. : VW [Volkswagon] is going berserk over the parody ad that showed a terrorist blowing himself up inside a small but tough sedan. The [...]

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New, integrated and sophisticated technologies are being developed and implemented – and the knowledge workers of tomorrow will be more interconnected than ever
 
According to the experts, Web 2.0 is on its way to the workplace soon – it’s an infrastructure that’s decentralized and more open than that which exists today. 
Remember Napster ?  The [...]

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