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Breakup with your or­ga­ni­za­tion with­out leav­ing

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So­phis­ti­cated or­ga­ni­za­tions con­struct re­la­tion­ships with the peo­ple that en­able the group. Even if all you do is punch the time clock at work, part of your iden­tity is as­so­ci­ated with your job, the build­ing you work in, the com­pany you work for and the peo­ple ... More »

More vo­cal and alone. Sext me?

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Last month I fin­ished au­thor­ing a chap­ter sub­mis­sion on how so­cial ar­ti­facts me­di­ate the del­uge of con­tent a so­cial net­work con­sumes and how di­ver­sity of par­tic­i­pa­tion is an im­per­a­tive to keep us from French in­hal­ing our tweets. We are liv­ing in a time of cont... More »

Cre­at­ing the fu­ture while mind­ing your busi­ness

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The last day of the Buck­min­ster Fuller ex­hibit at the Whit­ney de­liv­ered many sur­pris­ing mo­ments of ge­nius. Vi­sion­ary and in­ven­tor, Buck­min­ster is an in­no­va­tor’s in­no­va­tor. He saw the value of draw­ing upon in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary fields to in­form a unique and faceted... More »

I think ICANN

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ICANN is loos­en­ing the rules around do­main suf­fix at the detri­ment of hav­ing any mean­ing and com­pre­hen­sion em­bod­ied in a host­name. URLs need more thought, not free­dom. Even ICANN’s CEO brings the move down to van­ity plate level con­tri­bu­tion. Ap­par­ently, the ... More »

The suc­cess of par­tic­i­pa­tion

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One of the mag­i­cal things about grass­roots com­put­ing – grass­roots any­thing prob­a­bly – is that any suc­cess is de­cided by the par­tic­i­pants. This ba­sic rule is what en­sures sup­port but per­plexes com­pa­nies who want to make money from the pro­duc­tive ap­pli­ca­tion... More »