Thursday, November 21, 2002

Jon Udell and posts about mutually assured identity destruction. 2:16:45 PM

Doc Searls interviewed by CreativeCommons This was the problem with all these dot-com acronyms with a 2 in the middle -- B2B, B2C and so on. "To" was the wrong preposition. As Christine Boehlke put it to me once, the correct middle letter should have been W, because in a real marketplace we do business with people not to them. Does anybody ever shake hands and say "Nice doing business to you!"? Because the Net is more fundamentally a place than a pipe, we do business with each other there, not just to each other. Critical difference. 6:09:29 AM

Steve Johnson of the googleshare concept leads to - connectedland I've always had a desire to make the area where people, design and technology meet my playground, but I think I fell in love with the idea of a connected culture in 1996. What somewhat brought it all together, and pointed me in the direction I am still following professionally today, was one of Fritjof Capra's books, "The Web of Life". Coming from a slightly more philosophical and ecological angle Capra created a coherent scenario, coupling Chaos and Complexity Theory-derived concepts with intuitions driven by the emerging internet phenomenon. He envisioned that the western world and its underlying cultural matrix were shifting towards a new network model. Even though he was not the only one to do so, just like others, he was right. Needless to say I've been interested in understanding where that model would take us and our culture ever since. Emergent Architecture What is Emergence, and what are the implications for InformationArchitecture? 5:50:12 AM