Archive for the ‘Engagement Sciences’ Category

Digital immigrants speak a different language to digital natives

Sunday, November 12th, 2006John Naughton electrified last week's Society of Editors conference when in a passionate personal polemic he savaged newspaper coverage of today's youth.There is much here to commend Naughton, the sad thing is he "electrified people." Who is he electrifying? ...

Engagement in a participatory culture

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Howard Rheingold on Henry JenkinsHenry Jenkins has posted on his blog about the paper he and his colleagues have written for the MacArthur Foundation, about participatory culture and media literacy. I have followed Jenkins' lead in my attempts ...

Collective intelligence in a networked society

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006In a networked society, people are increasingly forming knowledge communities to pool information and work together to solve problems they could not confront individually. We call that collective intelligenceHenry Jenkins speaking at the Serious Games Summit

The Network is Female

Sunday, October 29th, 2006[caption id="attachment_3030" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Venus by Botticelli"][/caption]Leon Benjamin, left a note on a post I made European Commission to create open source collaboration portalCurious I went and had a look at his blog.He has made a great ...

European Commission to create open source collaboration portal

Friday, October 20th, 2006Nothing like a paradoxInformation Age reports that the European Commission has engaged with Unisys Belgium to create a portal where public sector organisations can store and share open source development code.As the European Commission is ...

Convergence is a cultural phenomonen not a technological one

Monday, October 16th, 2006The book's core premises could be identified as the following:1. Convergence is a cultural rather than a technological process. We now live in a world where every story, image, sound, idea, brand, and relationship will play itself out across all ...

Life is Fashion

Saturday, October 7th, 2006Professional Amateurs on Current TVBut there is another way of looking at Current TV or the term Professional Amateur.In the Craftsman, Richard Sennett argues that “nearly anyone can become a good craftsman” and that “learning to work well enables people ...

Citizen calling

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006If the world is exploding with peer-to-peer communication, communities of interest, communities of commerce, and as the younger generations grow up familiar with technology that is always two way - Any business or institution that only works in broadcast mode ...

Emerce day – Rocks in Rotterdam

Friday, September 15th, 2006I have spent the last few days in Holland in the wonderful city of RotterdamI was giving a keynote at Emerce dayIt was a lot of fun and was sold out. I also met some great people:Albert Boswijk ...

The dream of the personal computer aka the world is mobile

Saturday, July 29th, 2006From the Economist July 29th.On the PC's 25th birthday, The Economist leader article says. The IBM PC helped to democratise computing. Now to finish the job.Merchants in Zambia use mobile phones for banking; farmers in Senegal use them to ...

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