PaulBHartzog's blog
Posted Wed, 05/24/2006 - 15:53 by PaulBHartzog
Found this:
i) Contribute to the development of a theory of complex social systems and organisations.
ii) Explore and develop models, tools and methods to help organisations understand and cope with complexity.
iii) Develop a method of discourse of complexity, within an organisational context.
COMPLEXITY PROVIDES AN EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK AND A LANGUAGE, WHICH OFFER A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING AND SEEING THE WORLD.
here:
http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/events.htm
It's nice to se
Posted Fri, 05/12/2006 - 16:09 by PaulBHartzog
I'll be going to D.C. for the next few days to the
2006 IGERT Project Meeting.
Fellow University of Michigan
scholar Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason will be there. Plus I'm stoked about the " Cyberinfrastructure: Opportunities & Possibilities" session.
I'll report more when I get back, so stay tuned....
Posted Thu, 04/20/2006 - 11:48 by PaulBHartzog
I just got back from San Francisco attending the Institute for the Future's "Ten Year Forecast" where I got to talk about a model I did which they used in a piece called "Open Scale."The basic idea is that social mechanisms enabled by collaborative technologies allow open groups to leverage the advantages of large-scale organization. These advantages are just not available to closed groups.
Posted Tue, 04/18/2006 - 21:48 by PaulBHartzog
ONCE-CS (open network of centres of excellence in complex systems) has posted the new complex systems
Living Roadmap which features a number of "
Strategic Areas and Applications" including socio-technological systems, distributed computing, and cooperation.
Posted Thu, 03/16/2006 - 13:47 by PaulBHartzog
Rousseau claimed that even individuals in the state of nature were moved by pity to assist others. By contrast, modern science attempts to convince us that we are rational self-interested beings.
A new study may prove Rousseau right after all:
Study Shows Babies Try to Help
It's tough to pass judgment on things that you believe are true and that you hope are true. But then, as Howard Rheingold says, "What is, is up to us."
Posted Tue, 02/14/2006 - 12:32 by PaulBHartzog
In
this article about online Ajax desktops like
netvibes and
pageflakes, Dion Hinchcliffe says:
"As important sources of information only continue to proliferate, it's driving a desire to simplify and centralize their consumption."
This is like saying that as cuisine proliferates we'll all choose food courts in shopping malls instead of going out to actual restaurants to eat.
Posted Tue, 02/07/2006 - 12:44 by PaulBHartzog
The political theory implications of this are just too profound to ignore:
(from
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester )
"The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens,
Posted Sun, 01/29/2006 - 19:07 by PaulBHartzog
On
kuro5hin, nostalgiphile puts it where it goes:
"If Google cooperates (as Yahoo recently has) with the Chinese government to spy on its citizens, then why can't they cooperate with the US government's efforts to snoop on its citizens?"
I, for one, think that the illustrious
Chairman would approve of Google's guerilla tactics in China.
Posted Sun, 01/29/2006 - 14:40 by PaulBHartzog
Hyperwords is just too useful not to post about.
Hyperwords: more distraction opportunities or more streamlined workflow?
"The aim is to give you greater freedom of movement when you surf the web, in aid of helping you digest useful information, to whisk past useless information and to allow you follow whims and give your intuition freer reign."
I'm finding this tool to be more and more useful for getting quickly around the web, and with less typing.
Posted Sun, 01/29/2006 - 12:33 by PaulBHartzog
