How It Happened Last night a group of us got together to discuss ChangeCamp London and different opportunities for fostering a more collaborative & open culture in London. It was a great meeting and we’ll see some good things coming together in the near future. With that still fresh in my mind, I noticed a [...]
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Yesterday I read a really interesting story about a project to develop a new tool for researchers at the massive CERN laboratory (the folks who made that gigantic particle accelerator in Switzerland) to collaborate and share expertise more effectively. It’s a great complement to what John Seely Brown and John Hagel recently wrote about growing [...]
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Other people will have a lot more insight into this than I do, but since everyone is talking about Google’s announcement [excerpted]… We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which [...]
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I enthusiastically support Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue parliament… Here’s why. Proponents of more open, participatory, and directly accountable government have just been handed the best opportunity we could ask for. It’s a turning point in the narrative of centralized power that began with Jean Chrétien’s run in the 90s and has built up ever since. [...]
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by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
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David Warsh at Economic Principals has a very complimentary piece this week about Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View: Economist’s View is a lightly-edited aggregation of items from around the Web – newspaper columns and blog posts mostly, plus the occasional podcast or video, continually updated throughout the day and augmented periodically by Thoma’s own commentary, all [...]
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Read this on O’Reilly Radar: Andy Oram getting to the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC: I hooked my friends through the idea of an irreversible political shift. Not a regulatory regime that could be dismantled like the agencies responsible for civil rights, or a mandate that could be defunded like federal housing initiatives–no, in this [...]
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by Brian on 11-01-2008
in civics
The Obama campaign never stops thinking stuff up: The most important thing you can do to help Barack Obama win this election is call supporters in crucial battleground states and let them know where to go to vote. You can make calls from your own home. We provide you with a list of voters, their phone [...]
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Contrasting the Perpendicular with the Backwards
by OpenConceptual on 07-05-2009
in commentary,resources
David Warsh at Economic Principals has a very complimentary piece this week about Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View: Economist’s View is a lightly-edited aggregation of items from around the Web – newspaper columns and blog posts mostly, plus the occasional podcast or video, continually updated throughout the day and augmented periodically by Thoma’s own commentary, all [...]
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