Category Archives: Technologies That Support CI

From hardware-based sensors of the physical to software-based sensors of the social

Quotes in this blogpost are from “Ecological Computing,” by John Seely Brown and Feng Zhao. Confluences and their combined confluence Looking back at the first decades of the third millennium, humans will see them as the era of the Great Transition, an … Continue reading

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Report on the first contemplative co-tweeting, Part 1: What happened

Twitter is an intensely personal experience, yet a communal one, at the same time. However, those two dimensions never meet. Our individual tweets create the value of the whole, yet we only benefit individually from the information we receive or … Continue reading

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Combining social and electronic technologies for large-scale, collaborative meaning making

Large-scale, collaborative meaning making is a vital condition for dealing with crises and turning breakdowns into breakthroughs, locally and globally. To be effective, the social technologies for facilitating that transformation need to be supported by the best what emergent electronic … Continue reading

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Facebook and Collective Intelligence

It seems that Facebook can help members in “real-life” communities and networks to be more visible to themselves and increase their opportunity to think, feel, learn, and act together. That brings up two questions: What combination of current Fb apps … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 marries collective intelligence

I’ve just come across yet another interesting, simple but somehow limiting definition of how collective intelligence is achieved, in the The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 by Ellyssa Kroski: “Companies that adhere to Web 2.0 principles understand how … Continue reading

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Connectivity ramp, CI, and Jaron Lanier

I’ve just finished reading an amazing book by Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor at of the Washington Post, titled “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human.” … Continue reading

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Steal this bookmark!?

Thierry Nabeth of INSEAD has just alerted me of a new social networking phenomenon called “tagging”. In his message there was a reference to a Salon.com article in which Howard Rheingold said about tagging: “It’s like Friendster for knowledge as … Continue reading

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Seminar on CI at the U. of Ottawa

Seminar on Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa,
8, 9, 10th of August, 2004
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The untapped potential of the Internet Archive for CI

This entry has some pointers to a technology that can enable unprecedented capabilities in humankind’s collective intelligence. This entry is also a novelty for me; its essence is not to convey reflections on something that I read or wrote but to grow connections with and for someone that I met.
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