Sunday, May 6, 2007

Networked Book Adhocracies -Turning conversation into action

In Paul Hawken's forthcoming book Blessed Unrest, he describes a growing social phenomenon that is sweeping "civil society".

Here's an excerpt:
"I now believe there are over one million organizations working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. Maybe two.

By conventional definition, this is not a movement. Movements have leaders
and ideologies. You join movements, study tracts, and identify yourself with
a group. You read the biography of the founder(s) or listen to them perorate
on tape or in person. Movements have followers, but this movement doesn¹t
work that way. It is dispersed, inchoate, and fiercely independent. There is
no manifesto or doctrine, no authority to check with.

I sought a name for it, but there isn't one."
Alvin Toffler had a name for it in his 1970 work Future Shock. He called these "purpose governed" groups Adhocracies, and predicted they would replace bureaucracies as a way of organizing work and civil society. Adhocracy enables "mass collaboration", turning the structured conversationbases of NetworkedBooks into social action.

Adhocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



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Saturday, April 28, 2007

twenty08 � AppleTV RSS Plugin Beta 1 Available

twenty08 � AppleTV RSS Plugin Beta 1 Available

The Visual Link to PopCasts


Alphachimp Studio, Inc.: PopCasts

Friday, April 27, 2007

Maps ofScience

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Powers of Ten with text - the iftf networked book visual interface. ????



Powers of 10 for words in a networked book the pdf is a really interesting pan and zoom with the textual components of the book - well worth considering as another "way" into the networked book.

GAMER THEORY � Blog Archive � TextArc

Thursday, April 19, 2007

MediaWiki - Meta

MediaWiki - Meta
MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by Wikimedia projects and others. It is an implementation of a wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit. It is developed using MediaZilla (our version of BugZilla).

/Success stories - how has Wikimedia changed your life? - Meta

Communication Projects Group/Success stories - how has Wikimedia changed your life? - Meta