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Self-organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In social theory the concept of self-referentiality has been introduced as a sociological application of self-organization theory by Niklas Luhmann (1984). For Luhmann the elements of a social system are self-producing communications, i.e. a communication produces further communications and hence a social system can reproduce itself as long as there is dynamic communication. For Luhmann human beings are sensors in the environment of the system. Luhmann put forward a functional theory of society. Self-organization in human and computer networks can give rise to a decentralized, distributed, self-healing system, protecting the security of the actors in the network by limiting the scope of knowledge of the entire system held by each individual actor.
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      dit is dus belangrijk: self-reproducing communications. een stuk tekst toevoegen is ook een vorm van communicatie, wat dus weer opnieuw communicatie oproept. "dynamic communciation"
  • Most modern economists hold that imposing central planning usually makes the self-organized economic system less efficient.
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    self-organization
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    Wikipedia entry about self organization
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Self-organization - review paper - 0 views

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    self-organization paper
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    review paper about "The Science of Self-organization and Adaptivity"
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http://www.cybsoc.org/PasksIAT.PDF - 0 views

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    Gordon Pask's theory of learning, evolution and self-organization (in draft).
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    self-organization is something we want to achieve with Peers.
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CommunityIntelligence Ltd. - 0 views

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    mogelijk partner in consultingservices
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    Company offering support in changing organizations to more networked and open organizations.
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Tagging, Folksonomy & Co - Renaissance of Manual Indexing? - 0 views

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    another paper on collaborative tagging.. interesting..
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    This paper gives an overview of current trends in manual indexing on the Web. Along with a general rise of user generated content there are more and more tagging systems that allow users to annotate digital resources with tags (keywords) and share their annotations with other users. Tagging is frequently seen in contrast to traditional knowledge organization systems or as something completely new. This paper shows that tagging should better be seen as a popular form of manual indexing on the Web. Difference between controlled and free indexing blurs with sufficient feedback mechanisms. A revised typology of tagging systems is presented that includes different user roles and knowledge organization systems with hierarchical relationships and vocabulary control. A detailed bibliography of current research in collaborative tagging is included.
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Community Blogging ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 0 views

  • Now I want to draw out from these descriptions two major elements that I think are probably definitive of community. First of all, the idea that there's a network. Now a lot of people capture that by saying people can interact, people communicate, there's a place for discussion. But the central thing here is that there is, in some sense, a relation among the people; it's not mere proximity. But they are connected in some way. And the second thing, and the important thing, in my mind, is semantics, the idea that these relations are about something, that the people in the community share a common interest, common values, a set of beliefs, an affinity for cats, or beekeeping.
  • If we think of meaning as use then what is the meaning of a blog post? What does a blog post talk about? It's not contained in the post. Rather, it's contained in the network of relations in which the post finds itself. In the referrers. In the use. In the connections with other things. In evaluations of the post. A whole variety of different connections, different relations, are possible which could, and in my opinion will, be used to characterize an individual post.
  • Now why does this matter? It matters this way. If we're deriving meaning and connections and communities in a random fashion everything flows from the big spike. Scoble was up here, saying, "My friend was saying, I want you to link to me." And, he said, "That's not how it works. Create something of value," he said. Right? "And I will decide whether it's worth linking to." That's the big spike telling the long tail what to do. Isn't it? That's what happens when meaning derives from the centre. And if you push it, that sort of organization and arrangement requires control. Look at Technorati Tags. Now, we've already gotten some tag spam, and we've already gotten some structured vocabulary in Technorati Tags, and eventually somebody will come out and propose and ontology of Technorati Tags, a taxonomy, and they will say, "Everyone should do it this way." And anyone who doesn't, well, they're being chaotic, they're being disruptive. But if the idea emerges from the pattern of connections between individuals there's no one in control. Scoble can't tell me what to twrite in my blog and it doesn't matter whether he links to me or I link to him. And the dynamics in such a network are completely different. This works if you have freedom. This works if nobody tells you how to tag. This creates order and relevance and meaning through diversity, not conformity. Two very different pictures of community.
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  • "Well, the most popular form of XML in the world today is RSS, there is no standard
  • The idea here is that the community is defined as the relations between the members where the relations have semantical value, where that semantical value is defined by the relations. And I know it sounds like bootstrapping, but we've been doing that throughout history. People exist in relations to other people, to things, to resources, even to spaces.
  • What has to happen is this mass of posts has to self-organize in some way. Which means there has to be a process of filtering. But filtering that is not just random. And filtering that isn't like spam blocking. Filtering has to be a mechanism of determining what it is we want, because it's a lot easier to determine what we want than what we don't want.
  • The first pass at this I described in a paper a couple of years ago called "The Semantic Social Network" and the idea, very simply, is we actually attach author information to RSS about blog posts. It kills me that this hasn't happened. Because this is a huge source of information. And all you need to do is, in the 'item', in, say, the 'dc:creator' tag, put a link to a FOAF file. And all of a sudden we've connected people with resources, people with each other and therefore, resources with each other. And that gives me a mechanism for finding resources that is not based on taxonomies, is not based on existing knowledge and existing patterns, but is based on my placement within a community of like-minded individuals.
  • Now that semantic social network is just a first pass at this. We want to create these connections on many levels. And so what we want is metadata, not simply created by the author of a post, but created by readers of posts. This is what I call 'third party metadata'. Third party metadata -- we're beginning to see some of this out there in the blogosphere, in a small, limited and usually site-based way, right? Links, references, readings, annotations, classifications, context of use. But it can't be site-based. Because that doesn't create a network. It might as well be random.
  • Now the way this should work, and the way I've proposed for this to work in the educatiuonal community, is that as much of this third party metadata as possible is created through automatic means.
  • And so we get enormously rich descriptions through very simple mechanisms of automatic classification.
  • My contention is that instead of the spike-based power-law-based Instapundit-based network, that when we get something like the semantic social network, and we will get something like the semantic social network, because it's very simple to do, patterns of organization will be created. In the field of neural networks and connectionism they tyem 'clusters', you get a cluster phenomenon where we're not creating communities around a specific word, or specific concept, but the community itself emerges as being created by and defined as that particularly dense set of connections.
  • I've set up a system called Edu_RSS which is a very primitive first pass at this, and the idea here, Edu_RSS is an aggregator, there should be many instances of Edu_RSS, in the ideal world everybody would have something like this on their desktop, and it pulls in the link metadata, but it also pulls in rating metadata, and it doesn't pull it in from the entire world, the way Technorati does or the way Blogdex does, it pulls it in from my community, my network of friends. And if you set up the network in this way you can actually stop worrying about searching, because the network itself becomes the search where you go through layers of linking and so what comes out the other end is stuff that will be of interest to you. And if you're finely grained enough at the output end then you can get a very precise set of inputs. But the thing is, this set of inputs comes from the entire blogosphere of four million people rather than the randomly chosen top one hundred. The community is the network. There is no centralized place that constitutes community, there are only people, and resources, that are distributed, that are all acting on their own behalf and in their own interests - if you ever read Marvin Minsky's "The Society of Mind", it's like that - where the network consists of a set of self-selected relations using a variety of contextual information, that I've defined as third party metadata, to establish meaning, and where this meaning not only defines the community but emerges from the community.
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      true! handig om dit even door te spitten, ook om fundamentele beslissingen over PEERS te onderbouwen.
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    explanation about blogging, network creation, and meaning in the blogosphere
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    interessant: Downes is "anti-tagging", omdat woorden 1-dimensionaal zijn en het netwerk (wat de eigenlijke betekenis van een concept maakt) doorkruist..
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Twine - Organize, Share, Discover Information Around Your Interests - 0 views

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    Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
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    idd een erg interessant initiatief, wat overeenkomstigheden heeft met PEERS. Toch wordt hier geen onderscheid gemaakt tussen wat een persoon creëert, en wat een persoon leest/bekijkt. Ook is er geen beoordelingsmechanisme/algoritme.
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Williamson - Transaction Cost Approach - 0 views

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    summary of "The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach." >> important document about transaction costs economics by Williamson (one of the most influential persons in this domain of economics)
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    summary of "The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach." >> important document about transaction costs economics by Williamson (one of the most influential persons in this domain of economics) TCE >> transactiekosten omlaag door ICT >> mogelijkeheid tot creËren flexibelere organisaties, meer verspreid over tijd en ruimte >> behoefte aan ICT die dat soort organisaties ondersteunt :: PEERS.
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http://www.nickgreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/GPprog.PDF - 0 views

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    another paper by Gordon Pask about selforganization
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    self-organization
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Connectedness: Annotated Bibliography of Social Network Analysis for Business - 0 views

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    relevant book list, described per category
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    Bibliography categorized in the following categories; * Social and personal networks in organizations * Communities of practice * Networks, business, and knowledge management * Organizational networks research * The science of networks * SNA textbooks * Brief readings and articles * Websites and blogs
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AOK: KM Short Course - 0 views

  • A two-year study shows that up to 70 percent of workplace learning is accomplished on-the-fly, calling into question the value of formal training programs that are presented in their own good time and costing as much as $50 billion annually.
  • In an open, knowledge-based organization, interdepartmental cooperation and collaboration must become an integral part of the daily routine. Teams will not be appointed; they will form naturally in a knowledge-friendly environment through the free flow of information and ideas, leading to common goals that are dependent on the interaction of skills, knowledge and resources of cross-functional groups (not teams).
  • While knowledge networks are forming naturally in such a positive environment, the systematic management of networks will be essential if all this energy is to be productively directed toward the goals and objectives of the organization.
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  • Once human networks are formed, the application of interactive technology can succeed because it will be layered on a new knowledge community with a need for the mutual sharing of knowledge and ideas. The power and effect of knowledge will be amplified far beyond the limits of time and space and the association will be a valuable resource in the virtual world.
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    introduction to knowledge management
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gRSShopper in Detail ~ gRSShopper - 0 views

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    gRSShopper is an application that allows you to define your own community of RSS feeds, aggregates content from those feeds and organizes it, and helps you integrate that content into your own posts, articles and other content. It is a research database, a blogging engine, a community website, a content management system, and ultimately, a personal learning environment. The software is written in a computer language called Perl and is loaded onto web servers. It uses a database to manage your links, posts and other content. You access it with your web browser.
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    erg interessant en doordacht systeem.
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gRSShopper - 0 views

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    ntrstng
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    gRSShopper is a personal web environment that combines resource aggregation, a personal dataspace, and personal publishing. It allows you to organize your online content any way you want to, to import content - your own or others' - from remote sites, to remix and repurpose it, and to distribute it as RSS, web pages, JSON data, or RSS feeds.
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Folksonomies-Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 0 views

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    This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital me- dia to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information.
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    another article about folksonomies and tagging..
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ProjectPier.org - 0 views

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    basecamp alternatief.. open source.
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    ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.
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Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - The McKinsey Quarterly - Six ways Web 2.0 work - Busine... - 0 views

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    Nice article explaining the most common "2.0" uses in organizations, and 6.0 things to keep in mind when adopting 2.0 stuff
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Organize Your Company With WizeHive (Beta Invites) - 0 views

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    microblogging tool with basecamp-ish features.
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    microblogging tool met basecamp-ish features.
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Credit Scoring, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Statistics, StatSoft Electronic Text... - 0 views

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    This Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics, credit scoring, forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others. The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by "modules," accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.
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How to Save the World - 0 views

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    A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization
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Card Sorting with Results | WebSort.net - 0 views

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    Improve the organization of your site WebSort enables you to conduct remote card sorting online. Create a study, send a link to participants, and analyze the results - all through a simple web-based interface
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