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World of Ends. Doc Searls and David Weinberger.  Really Good!

The Nutshell

1. The Internet isn't complicated 2. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. 3. The Internet is stupid. 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value. 5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges. 6. Money moves to the suburbs. 7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends. 8. The Internet[base ']s three virtues:    a. No one owns it    b. Everyone can use it    c. Anyone can improve it 9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it? 10. Some mistakes we can stop making already

hmmmmm. On point 5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges.

The name Enrique Dussel came to mind. Enrique Dussel? One of my favorite living philosophers and a disruptive force. New ideas, ways of collaborating and working come from the periphery. I had a set of his works when I was studying in Mexico City and worked in Chiapas. A few years after I left the mission, a classmate of mine, Paul Nadolny was named pastor there. I gave him my Dussel books. He said they were an inspiration. Paul learned the native Maya dialect Chol. He promoted the native mayan culture. The parish was a Grand Central Station for the indiginous people. Around 1995, he was not allowed back into Mexico. http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/nadolny.htm

Some links to get to know Enrique. Dussel at Berkeley. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Events/spring2002/04-05-dussel/

Amerindian Transmodernity. http://www.uwec.edu/academic/curric/greidebe/Indigenous/Dussel.Enrique.lecture.htm
10:54:16 AM  #  comment []

A few weeks ago I wrote about Ming and Michael's ideas on personalized collaborative filtering in a post called Recommender systems and the microblogosphere. The idea being that there are blogospheres around each weblog reader, and that my "sphere of trust" - the set of people I'm likely to take seriously - roughly corresponds to people who are a few degrees of separation from me. And that I might be interested in knowing what those people think of a certain idea/thing/person in addition to knowing what Google thinks.

Now (via Alex) I found Micah Alpern's microblogosphere search tool, which implements the case N=1. I haven't had time to try it yet but it looks like it might be very useful.

A new interaction tool ..the mircoblogosphere search tool. hmmmm Another tool to try. I miss a couple of weeks and bam. some interesting stuff I missed.
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