Web X.0

Morphing Faces

2007-02-13T17:18:00.001-08:00

Just a quick link to an entertaining YouTube video showing how to model and animate 3-D faces.

Value in Robinson's Article

2007-01-22T18:31:00.000-08:00

Take a look at this article. It seems like a discussion on pricing in the biotech industry. But it is also putting our attention on how the old school collaborative networked economy interacts with the private market-oriented businesses, as Yochai Benkler articulated in his book The Wealth of Networks.

Wealth of Networks

2007-01-10T13:01:00.000-08:00

I highly recommend reading Yochai Benkler's book “Wealth of Networks.” It is a balanced articulation of what the Internet and Web 2.0 is enabling in the development of new forms of social collaboration that are not adequately recognized as such by both private/regulated market advocates and for welfare advocates.

One of the things that struck me most is Benkler's capacity to create a perspective in which he can show that these new forms of collectives are rooted in old practices that have existed forever. And he shows these practices can gain major significance if

The neutrality of the web, access to the web, Open Source initiatives, and General Public Licensing type of legislation is improved, and

The aggressive move toward Intellectual Property laws and regulations, and control by corporations, is counter-balanced.

Read his book and get involved in his wiki.

Networks

2006-10-29T21:18:00.000-08:00

The word “network” is used in different contexts in different domains.

In the engineering and technological context, it is used to denote a set of equipment interconnected to deliver a particular functionality. It used in a social context to denote a group of people that collaborate to address shared concerns. Or in neurophenomenology, to denote patterns of neural activity that correlate with specific behaviors.

In all these cases, networks distinguish a unity constituted by a set of interrelated components. However, the disciplines and practices required to design, develop or operate in each of these classes of networks are very different. Very often, especially in a business context, disciplines and practices relevant to a specific class of networks are used to think and act in another type of network, producing significant miscoordination and waste.