Wirearchy

Is it just me, or does glancing down the list of session titles for Supernova 2008 give you the sense that the interconnectivity and interconnectedness of the Web is weaving its way inexorably into the sociology and psychology of daily life (except where people cannot connect or cannot afford to).
The red asterisks denote sessions where [...]

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I went skiing yesterday and had a lovely day frolicking in the snow.
Here, for posterity, is a brief clip of me skiing down a slope on one of my favourite trails at Whistler Mountain, Ridge Run.
The clip was captured by my brother Dana.

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I got up early this morning (5h15 am) so that I could go and frolic in that nice white fluffy powdery stuff called snow, falling down the steep sides of cliffs in a barely-controlled fashion.

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I went for a walk today.

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I’m not sure all that many people realize just how fragile the financial system ostensibly led by the United States is looking these days (warning and caveat … I am NOT a professional economist).
But the way I see it, this news of default (NY Times excerpt below) by Carlyle Capital , which by and large [...]

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In a recent keynote at SXSW, Charlene Li of Forrester Research predicted that social networking platforms will be "like air" … "They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be."
More specifically, she broke down the use of such platforms into four components of utility and impact:
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Profiles - universal identities
Relationships - a [...]

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I remember literally scores of conversations over the past five years with smart people in various areas of business and the professions … almost all of whom were over approximately 35 years old … in which they were dismissive of blogging, for one or other of the various now-well-known reasons that blogging is often portrayed [...]

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For those of you that thought I might have given up on the "back-into-the-pool-to-get-fit obsession" … nope !
I was dreadfully sick for about ten days.

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Charlene Li just posted a "tweet" pointing those who follow her "tweeting" to a new post about "The Future of Social Networks" she just posted in the wake of her keynote at the Graphing Social Patterns West conference.
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The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air
Charlene Li
On Monday, I gave the kick off [...]

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Every week or two it seems that another example of ways that software, network dynamics, bidding and negotiation between sets of skills, collaboration, cooperation and similar activities are leading to an emerging synthesis of social networking, brainstorming, collaborative work, predictive markets, and peer-to-peer negotiations (see Michel Bauwen’s work on Peer-to-Peer Economies)
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"Knowledge workers own the means [...]

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