Social networks guru Valdis Krebs has written an analysis which purports to show that creating a single intelligence czar is less efficient in terms of getting intelligence to the President than leaving the stove pipes but adding connections among them.
Maybe.
But Krebs leaves out at least two critical externalities. First, his proposed solution requires that no […]
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Homeland Security, Networks, and Accountability
Published by September 16th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and Digital Democracy. 5 CommentsDid I Do That?
Published by September 8th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsUpdate: Gideon’s post has been changed somewhat. It now reads, “Shorewalker, backed up by Michael Feldstein’s support in e-literate, dismisses Knowledge Management with a “Bah!” and the wave of a hand.” That’s somewhat more accurate, but it wasn’t Shorewalker’s dismissal of KM that I was “backing up”; rather, it was his(?) observation that teaching and […]
Constructivism, Cognitivism, and Behaviorism in Weak Science
Published by August 20th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Instructional Design. 0 CommentsTCRecord just published a great example of the kind of weak science that strikes me that as a perfect example of why I don’t bother to read the academic literature on learning theory with any regularity.
The article starts off well enough:
Teachers exert the greatest influence in the classroom through the way in which they engage […]
Steven Johnson Speaks (Again) on Emergence in the Dean Campaign
Published by August 19th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and Digital Democracy. 0 CommentsJohnson has a chapter out [PDF] in a new online book about “Extreme Democracy,” which includes contributing luminaries such as Clay Shirky and Joi Ito. In his chapter, Johnson clarifies how his thoughts about emergence in democracy have evolved since his book came out (and since the Dean campaign crashed and burned):
Watching the Dean campaign’s […]
Full Context: Democratic Primaries as an Informational Cascade
Published by July 29th, 2004 in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype and Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science. 0 CommentsI have been digging more into the subject of informational cascades as I work on editing my submission to eLearn on “emergent learning” (which I’m going to refer to as social learning instead, given the current lack of agreement about what “emergent learning” means). The more I dig, the more excited I get. There’s some […]
