Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing

[http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien ] [http://harryvandervelde.nl/ Harry van der Velde] tipped me on [http://www.cambrianhouse.com/?ref=Martien Cambrian House] some time ago. What a wonderful [http://wiki.aardrock.com/holacracy holacratic] way of [[Totally Unique Thoughts|turning thoughts into things]]. Community-owned—so “[http://wiki.aardrock.com/One_From_Many Dee Hock]” in its chaorganization. So co-creative. While preparing a proposal for [http://andarr.nl/ Andarr] this morning, I decided to sign up. Looking forward to …

Continuous Partial Attention

My son [http://martijn.van.steenbergen.nl/ Martijn] recently started working for [http://q42.nl/ Q42]. One of his new colleagues pointed him to [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/continuous_partial_attention.php Continuous Partial Attention] on whether or not to unplug from the ever increasing flow of interruptions of the grid and focus on getting some work done. Becoming ever more agile—do some yoga. Thanks Martijn & colleague!

Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software

Article in Automatiseringgids on [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ Luis von Ahn]’s [http://www.espgame.org/ ESP Game]—a.k.a. the [http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ Google Image Labeler]—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding [http://www.captcha.net/news/ai.html Captcha]. Thank you very much Luis!

Holacracy and chaorganization on votes

As a member of the Identity Commons mailing list for several years now I find many of the organizational conversations very interesting. Especially the dialogs on principles, articles, bylaws, organization, etc. I feel compelled to contribute in some way, but force myself not to for the simple reason that I know that I cannot sustain …

Natural Capital Institute

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/LandONE ] Eduard Povel tipped me on the Natural Capital Institute today—helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence. ”’All open source. Hurray!”’ Wow, what a fine initiative. I’m going to contact them to find synergy between NCI and my LandONE initiative.

Co-creation: whoever has the smartest customers wins

Do consumer driven innovation, customer care and Wikinomics work? Well, at Procter & Gamble they do. Read CIO Magazine on Wikinomics. I’m a ”’big big fan of co-creation”’ and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like mail, the web and [http://java.net Java] emerged. [http://kk.org Kevin Kelly] already wrote about it when he says: …