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Jan Wyllie

The Human Algorithm [20May10] - 0 views

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  • A common mistake for those seeking to cope with this profound disruption is to confuse technology with innovation. Algorithms, apps and search tools help make data useful but they can’t replace the value judgements at the core of journalism.
  • Genuine innovation requires a fundamental shift in how journalists think about their role in a changed world. To begin with, they need to get used to being ‘curators’; sorting news from the noise on the social web using smart new tools and good old fashioned reporting skills.
  • I find it helps to think of curation as three central questions: * Discovery: How do we find valuable social media content? * Verification: How do we make sure we can trust it? * Delivery: How do we turn that content into stories for a changed audience?
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  • With some like-minded souls, I founded Storyful in early 2010.
  • he only way a curator can ultimately sort news from noise is to join the social media conversation which emerges from news events. Not just listen, but engage directly, openly and honestly with the most authentic voices.
  • Every news event in the age of social media creates more than a conversation, it creates a community.
  • When news breaks, a self-selecting network gathers to talk about the story. Some are witnesses – the creators of original content – others are amplifiers – passing that content on to a wider audience. And in every group are the filters, the people who everyone else looks to for judgement.
  • Twitter is the door to that community.
  • We had more profound experiences of this Human Algorithm at work in recent weeks, most notably with reports of mass graves being discovered outside the besieged Syrian town of Deraa. Interaction with Facebook groups led us to Twitter conversations and YouTube videos. E-mail conversations with US-based academics has led us to key translations and satellite imagery.
  • This is the ‘Human Algorithm’ at work; the wisdom of a social media community harnessed through open, honest and informed engagement.
  • Storyful judges the credibility of a source on social media by their behaviour and status within the community
  • Proximity to the event. • Established journalistic, academic, or official credentials. • Past behaviour on the social web. • Status withi
  • established activist/political/social media group.
  • it is the oldest journalistic skill of all which gives this process meaning and that is engagement.
Jan Wyllie

Wildcat: Of Onions and Infocologies Thriving in the age of hyperconnectivity [31Aug09] - 0 views

spacecollective.org/...n-the-age-of-hyperconnectivity

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shared by Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11 - Cached
  • a sensation carried by many and is very difficult to articulate, for even though the scope and amount of information available to us is disturbing many cherished beliefs and long held assumptions, at base this sensation is pleasurable, hence we want more of it.
  • we are entering, and actually are already in, a deterritorialized age of transformation, an age unlike any other in that the speed and overload of information is transforming us, and yes destabilizing us, disrupting us in such a fashion as to allow a new kind of mind to emerge, the hyperconnected mind.
  • we have evolved to be a fluid intelligence, an intelligence for which disruption is not a bug but a feature.
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  • Hyperconnectivity leads to fluid intelligence.
  • Fluid intelligence is the ability to find meaning in confusion and solve new problems. It is the ability to draw inferences and understand the relationships of various concepts, independent of acquired knowledge”
  • I have become more intelligent, clearer, more focused, faster and more appreciative of others. In fact I am more than pleased with my multitasking, multithreaded polylogue on practically every level of my existence.
  • I believe that fluid intelligence is the hallmark of our present era, an intelligence that is fundamentally  autopoietic and multidimensional;
  • think that same intelligence is in the process of adaptation, adapting itself to accommodate information overload not as a negative so called ‘distraction’ but as an attention enhancer, an explorative measure of our intellects. T
  • in our hyperconnected slipstream the very transient nature of meaning is being amplified.
  • We are at present in a transitional period of rapid advancement, an era of supreme importance in the history of humanity, a phase in our concatenated evolution in which new forms of literacy are being invented, new methods of inter-subjective enhancement are at play and we evolve because of it.
  • more than that I carry the (very subjective) feeling that I have developed a new filtering system concerning relevancy and irrelevancy, I am now able to discard or admit at a glance, if something is worthy of note to me or not, if it pertains to my (very extensive) list of interests or not.
  • A connected object, one that is a node in a network that interacts in some way with other nodes, can give birth to a hundred unique relationships that it never could do while unconnected
  • Narratives is what we are made of, our states of mind are narratives, stories within stories,
  • The paradigmatic shift is disruptive because it heralds a new story, the story of superabundance, and the superabundance starts with the wealth of information at our immediate accessibility.
  • he narrative of our hyperconnected state of affairs is one of enmeshed realities
  • the dynamics of intersubjectivity allows us to flow uninterrupted into a combined interactive intelligence, a hyper-intelligence that combines autonomous critical thinking within a larger framework of co-adaptive consensual adhocracies.
  • this very variability of multiple realities enmeshed as a coherent whole that re-describes the theme of being a hyperconnected mind.
  • in direct insights that are predominantly invisible but nevertheless inform our actions and influence our understandings. Moreover, I see the modern formless hypermind evolving in front of our eyes as the precursor of a posthuman mind that is not only better at ‘everything’ but eventually will adapt old and outdated philosophical and cognitive concepts into fresh modes of being.
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      Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11
       
      As always significant, inspiring and disturbing. 
  • Jan Wyllie on 17 May 11
     
    Is this vision coming to pass? Or is it delayed again? Or being overtaken by events on the ground, so to speak?
Jan Wyllie

Open Money - A New Social Arrangement - 2 views

openintelligence.amplify.com/...money-a-new-social-arrangement

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shared by Jan Wyllie on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jan Wyllie on 03 May 10
     
    Another project that aims to open up the floodgates to global prosperity. The open money project builds upon the LETSystem and community currencies developments from Canada and Japan.
Jan Wyllie

The authenticity imperative - It's not about the elves! [14Apr10] - 0 views

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shared by Jan Wyllie on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Jan Wyllie on 28 Apr 10
     
    Social media is really about making authentic, truthful, purposeful and caring relationships. It is not about being a follower, nor being a celebrity with lots of followers. As Jemima Gibbons, Convenor of the the RSA's Digital Engagement Group, concludes "We are no longer in the universe of messaging and marketing, we are in the universe of doing." Just GFDI.
Jan Wyllie

30% fee - How Facebook plans to fuel the app economy with Facebook Credits [21Apr10] - 0 views

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shared by Jan Wyllie on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Taking 30 per cent of every transaction off the top is plain greedy — very much not part of the ethos of a community / social currency.
  • New details emerged today on Facebook Credits, a long-awaited virtual currency on the social network that will likely have a lot of impact on how much money is made by Facebook’s ecosystem partners.
  • the goal of Facebook Credits is to make it “friction-less” for users to adopt virtual currency and to start spending it across a bunch of Facebook apps.
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  • With credits, it becomes easier for people to buy things across apps.
  • Jan Wyllie on 26 Apr 10
     
    Taking 30 per cent of every transaction off the top is plain greedy -- very much not part of the ethos of a community / social currency.
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