Johnson 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 [...]
I’m afraid this is going to be something of an echo-blog, since I don’t have the paid subscription to the ACM library necessary to allow me to see the original article, but the About Kim weblog has an intriguing and encouraging quote from an academic article on link predictability within social networks:
By running our predictors [...]
This is a great piece on the utility and cost of belief. It sounds heavy, I know, but it is actually very well written and easy to follow. I found it while doing research on informational cascades, but the piece is about a much broader KM problem; namely, what is the cost of testing a [...]
This post on a new kind of group performance art gives a good example of how emergence can work in groups of humans. Key here, again, is that the players have no clear sense of the larger emergent pattern, i.e., there is no “learning” on the part of individuals, though there may be adaptation by [...]
So far, my most popular post (by far) has been Emergent Learning is an Oxymoron. This post has gotten more than five times as many hits as the next most popular one. And more people keep coming to it.
The trouble is, I have no idea what people are actually thinking about it because nobody has [...]
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