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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg

origo - Project Hosting on Google Code

origo - Project Hosting on Google Code

About � Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010

About � Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010

Literature & Fiction :: Bernhard Schlink on Writing The Weekend - Vook

Literature & Fiction :: Bernhard Schlink on Writing The Weekend - Vook

The Future of the Book. on Vimeo

The Future of the Book. on Vimeo

Annotations Overview | dev.twitter.com

Annotations Overview | dev.twitter.com: "Annotation Guidelines

The goal of Annotations are to bring more structured data to tweets to allow for better discovery of data and richer interactions. We aim to borrow heavily from, and use when possible, existing standards like RDFa, Microformats, Open Graph Protocol, AB Meta and Activitystrea.ms. Annotations will be a community-driven effort, but we aim to offer some initial guidance to hopefully create a critical mass of data that benefits users and developers. We want to lean towards loose-typing and minimal requirements while balancing that with enough structure to determine some semantics about the content or expression."

What Twitter Annotations Mean

What Twitter Annotations Mean: "Imagination will make the sky the limit for this publishing platform used easily by more than 100 million people around the world. But a shortage of forethought, planning and agreed-upon standards may bring that platform's aspirations back down to earth quickly in the future. Time will tell."

Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book - Triple Canopy

Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book - Triple Canopy

if:book: the sea change is coming...

if:book: the sea change is coming...: "conversations aren't linear, which is why when we talk about a book 'including the conversation it engenders' it seems that we're going to need more than two dimensions to represent and encourage a complex asynchronous conversation among many people."

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog: "It’s frustrating to think that a book that has this much extra material can’t include that material in the eBook version and that a reader has to sit with a browser window open at the same time."

Planet Wikimedia - Meta

Planet Wikimedia - Meta

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog

Tim O'Reilly: The Oracle of Silicon Valley

http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/clip.php?showid=4318&start=2:48&stop=3:12

Anderson: iPad Will Solve Magazines' Business Problem

Anderson: iPad Will Solve Magazines' Business Problem

SIVACRACY.NET: " ... they keep pulling me back."

SIVACRACY.NET: " ... they keep pulling me back."

What IF?

What IF?

Institute for the Future of the Book - Mission

Institute for the Future of the Book - Mission

Networked Book Adhocracies -Turning conversation into action

In Paul Hawken's forthcoming book Blessed Unrest, he describes a growing social phenomenon that is sweeping "civil society".

Here's an excerpt:

"I now believe there are over one million organizations working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. Maybe two.

By conventional definition, this is not a movement. Movements have leaders
and ideologies. You join movements, study tracts, and identify yourself with
a group. You read the biography of the founder(s) or listen to them perorate
on tape or in person. Movements have followers, but this movement doesn¹t
work that way. It is dispersed, inchoate, and fiercely independent. There is
no manifesto or doctrine, no authority to check with.

I sought a name for it, but there isn't one."

Alvin Toffler had a name for it in his 1970 work Future Shock. He called these "purpose governed" groups Adhocracies, and predicted they would replace bureaucracies as a way of organizing work and civil society. Adhocracy enables "mass collaboration", turning the structured conversationbases of NetworkedBooks into social action.

Adhocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Gmail - Paul Hawken: To Remake the World (Orion)

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