Our world is less and less about the single pieces of intellectual property and more and more about the networks that help connect these pieces. The total stock of information used in these ecosystems exceeds the capacity of single organizations because doubling the size of huge organizations does not double the capacity of that organization to hold knowledge and put it into productive use. In a world in which implementing the next generation of ideas will increasingly require pulling resources from different organizations, barriers to collaboration will be a crucial constraint limiting the development of firms. Agility, context, and a strong network are becoming the survival traits where assets, control, and power used to rule.
Joi
April 23, 2012 at 2:46pm

Source: brycedotvc

globalspin:

neil-gaiman:

Excellent links and information:

captainjhwatson:

Since Uganda is getting a lot of interest on the internet right now, I figured it was important to try to present an alternative source of information. Invisible Children is, as many already know, a highly problematic organization, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying to help. Here are some other sources of information, statistics, and ways to donate/help.

I’m offering this solely as a counterpoint to the popularity of a recent video, which I haven’t even watched yet. TLDR: I like information from multiple knowledgeable sources.

This is wonderful. I have a lot of thoughts percolating regarding seeking information and taking action, particularly with regards to far away, exotic, and difficult to comprehend problems. Hopefully I can find the time to write them down!

March 7, 2012 at 9:34am

Source: earthsmightiestheroes

Mark Hurst:

Notice how Fahey is able to distill a chapter’s worth of material into a single page. You can compare and contrast the three drinks by glancing quickly around the drawing. In other words: You’re learning! Here understanding is imparted more effectively, more efficiently, than a well-worded written description would have done. In short, this is what infographics should be used for - imparting understanding in a way that the written word can not.

This is good. Also, nice pun, Mark.

December 13, 2011 at 3:52pm

laphamsquarterly:

Future fight!

world-shaker:

Orwell vs. Huxley

This is very good.

Re: the Orwell side: it’s time we started thinking of entities like Facebook and Google similarly to how we think about states. Their policies directly impact millions of people and indirectly impact billions. They control the flow of information – perhaps more subtly than Turkey or Iran, but they do.

(via theatlantic)

November 14, 2011 at 11:39am

Source: world-shaker

Information, Paradigms, Economics, and Ethics

Alexis Madrigal on the TechCrunch / Crunch Fund debate:

…the set of solutions to common information problems that we call journalism is coming unglued as different types of publications become possible on the Internet. …

Bias in journalism has been the default assumption forever. The journalism ethics that David Carr represents was an important invention that arose to fight pervasive bias. It didn’t just happen. It partially solved the trustworthiness problem, at least temporarily.

Philip Greenspun on how the Web and the Weblog has changed writing:

In the 1980s Steve Ward, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, described a sure-fire dieting scheme. “All that you need for my diet is graph paper, a ruler, and a pencil,” Steve would explain. “The horizontal axis is time, one line per day. The vertical axis is weight in lbs. You plot your current weight on the left side of the paper. You plot your desired weight on a desired date towards the right side, making sure that you’ve left the correct number of lines in between (one per day). You draw a line from the current weight/date to the desired weight/date. Every morning you weigh yourself and plot the result. If the point is below the line, you eat whatever you want all day. If the point is above the line, you eat nothing but broccoli or some other low-calorie food.”

Steve’s diet is probably more effective than most popular diets. How come he isn’t a bestselling diet book author? How do you turn an idea that can be explained in one paragraph into a diet book that people will buy? Printing that one paragraph really large would take up one page.

September 6, 2011 at 11:27am

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