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OrgOrgChart: The Dynamic Organization of an Organization - information aesthetics - 0 views

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shared by Ferananda Ibarra on 15 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Ferananda Ibarra on 15 Dec 12
     
    Beautiful animation about how an organization evolves in time. Difficult to read the right meaning yet powerful in showing the networked part and if you really pay attention the power structure. Networked yet no holopticism
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General semantics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...General_semantics Semantics invisible architectures
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  • Jean-François Noubel on 24 Oct 12
     
    "General semantics is a program begun in the 1920s that seeks to regulate the evaluative operations performed in the human brain. . After partial launches under the names "human engineering" and "humanology,"[1] Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski[2] (1879-1950) fully launched the program as "general semantics" in 1933 with the publication of Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics."
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Working with e-prime: some practical notes - 0 views

www.asiteaboutnothing.net/pdf_workingwitheprime.pdf e-prime invisible architectures language ontology
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  • Jean-François Noubel on 28 Oct 12
     
    "To achieve adjustment and sanity and the conditions that follow from them, we must study the structural characteristics of this world first and, then only, build languages of similar structure, instead of habitually ascribing to the world the primitive structure of our language." Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity.
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The ECB Report on Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies - Blog - Genesis Block - The... - 0 views

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  • Ferananda Ibarra on 31 Oct 12
     
    "On Oct 29, 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) released an official (and very nicely prepared) report called "Virtual Currency Schemes." The 55-page report looks at several facets of what virtual currencies are, how they're being used, and what they can do. "
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Democracy in honeybees and other animals: What humans can learn from social species. - ... - 0 views

www.slate.com/...ans_can_learn_from_social.html collective intelligence Swarm intelligence Governance
shared by Ferananda Ibarra on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • The idea that ants, honeybees, or other social animals might do a thing or two better than we do is ancient.
  • Tom Seeley has written a lovely and compelling book titled Honeybee Democracy which suggests we turn to the bees to see how they make decisions. Thanks to the work of Seeley and his collaborators, it is now clear that honeybee hives really are democratic.
  • When it’s time to look for a new nest, options are weighted by the evaluations of many different bees about a site’s qualities—its size, its humidity, the density of surrounding flowers. Individual bees vote with dances, and when the number of dances in favor of some particular site is high enough, the masses are swayed. Together, citizen bees choose, if not perfection, the best possible option.
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  • In ants, choices about how to nest or feed also seem democratic, though a few experts influence the process. Some ants just know more than others.
  • One aspect of the honeybee royal lifestyle Tarpy studies is mating behavior. He is fascinated by promiscuity, at least in honeybees. Honeybee queens mate multiple times and store sperm in a special internal appendage. They can then allocate the sperm to produce their offspring. Tarpy has shown that more promiscuous queens produce colonies that are more genetically diverse and are less at risk of disease.
  • Tarpy also studies how queens are elected. A queen is not a president (the president is not in charge of literally birthing the next generation, for example), yet honeybees do choose their leader.
  • Ferananda Ibarra on 06 Nov 12
     
    Awesome article. I did highlite it but really deserves a full read. 
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Conversation Agent: How Social Currency Influences Behavior - 0 views

www.conversationagent.com/...rency-influences-behavior.html currency types currencies social currencies images
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  • Ferananda Ibarra on 26 Nov 12
     
    Buying patterns. influence
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