Another amazing essay for David Pollard about web 2.0
We've come a long way. Web 1.0, no small miracle itself, was largely about getting access to, and mobilizing, information on a scale unprecedented in history. Web 2.0 has been about what Tim O'Reilly calls creating "an architecture of participation", changing the role of 'user' from searcher and reader to sharer and collaborator. The term 'social networking' describes the core of this, but what's going on (today) at its edges -- peer production, open source, activism -- goes well beyond just connecting, towards doing things together, things that make a difference.
This essay by Dave Pollard is excellent for understanding why I think about these things. It can save the world!!
A CONVERGENCE: COMPLEX SYSTEMS THEORY, OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY, FRAMES, FREAKONOMICS, AND THE WISDOM OF CROWDS
Dave Pollard: How to save the world http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/02/06.html#a1429
In some recent work I have been doing, it occurred to me that Open Space Technology might provide a framework for capturing the Wisdom of Crowds to resolve complex problems. This draws together three very timely business concepts, and I thought it might be worth exploring this further on these pages. Here's what I've come up with.
