Author Archives: George Pór

From networked individualism to “we” blogs

Posted on May 19, 2003 by George Pór

The blogging paradigm is barely 10 years old and its narcistic “beauty contest” tendency can be explained with what Shelley Powers compared to “our teen years with our fixation on popularity. S/he with the most links, wins.”
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Concept vehicles

Posted on May 12, 2003 by George Pór

George Por just wrote in the Blog of Collective Intelligence: Being “hypertinent” Hypertinence keeps gaining momentum through the emergence of the current crop of social software (blogs, wikis, p2p forums, free co-authoring and translation tools and services, etc.) that has … Continue reading →

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Social thermodynamics and mapping the world

Posted on May 12, 2003 by George Pór

Today most intranets and information systems rely on administrator-oriented tools: you must fill in pre-defined forms, upload reports, update databases, provide complete profile information, etc. Such predesigned tools and interfaces are built upon "mass market" rules, i.e. one same item … Continue reading →

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Being “hypertinent”

Posted on May 11, 2003 by George Pór

I’ve just picked up an interview that Derrick De Kerckhove gave a year ago in TheFeature :: It’s All About The Mobile Internet. Here’s why I blog it. I’m in the process of trying to organize my thoughts about the … Continue reading →

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Collective Consciousness

Posted on May 7, 2003 by George Pór

Collective Intelligence (CI), Collective Wisdom (CW), and Collective Consciousness (CC) are all very different phenomena. All of them have many definitions and descriptions, through the lens of various disciplines. To use them effectively, in ways that enable coherent discourse and … Continue reading →

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Knowledge <- Intelligence <- Wisdom

Posted on May 1, 2003 by George Pór

A glitch in the operating system of my computer has cut me from the Web for two days, which was challenging in many ways, but also giving me some interesting insights. I was not away from the Web for two … Continue reading →

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What are Blogs for

Posted on April 20, 2003 by George Pór

I have had a hard time understanding why blogs were so different from usual forums. George helped me build my own answers (in words and concept I understand). Forums are made for building and following conversations under a defined topic … Continue reading →

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Towards an attention economy of CI

Posted on April 20, 2003 by George Pór

“I didn’t adequately address ‘…the bipolarity opposition between the Net and the Self.’  Note to self, need another framework to explain how self-serving utility pursuits result in emergent value.  Note to Net, feel free to chime in.” from Ross Mayfield’s … Continue reading →

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Collective intellect augments individual

Posted on April 19, 2003 by George Pór

Scott Leslie wrote in his EdTechPost blog: “Don’t you just love when, in the process of thinking about an issue, you come to a question that you know others are looking at and that is more than you could handle … Continue reading →

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“Shared-attention” & attention ecology

Posted on April 15, 2003 by George Pór

Professor Pierre Levy wrote: > Dear coach, I will be very interested by your advice about expanding attention bandwidth and – therefore – time. 🙂 Let me start with the model that I developed a few years ago to help … Continue reading →

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