- Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source
NEC@Shirky.com -- Networks, Economics, and Culture NEC is a mix of essays written for the list, essays written for other outlets, drafts of ideas I’m pursuing, and reader commentary (re-printed only with permission, of course). The list will be very low volume, with an approximately twice-monthly frequency, and the contents will also be archived on shirky.com. <<management>>
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Note: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.
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Note: chinese industrial piracy mountain fastness http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&newwindow=1&q=%22tommy+m%C3%B6ller+%22+schweden+-drag&lr=lang_de&aq=f&aqi=&oq= - Military Leadership - Recent
Leadership and the military are practically inseparable. Military leadership and leadership development are foundational concepts for Army personnel. It permeates military culture beginning with every recruit learning the leadership-oriented Warrior Ethos to the leader development programs offered to the Army’s general officers. It is no surprise, then, that SSI conducts research on military leadership, leadership development, and the military culture. Dr. Leonard Wong is our military leadership specialist.
in Public bookmarks - Recipe for Disaster The Formula That Killed Wall Street - by Felix Salmon | Wired Tech Biz
For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before. With his brilliant spark of mathematical legerdemain, Li made it possible for traders to sell vast quantities of new securities, expanding financial markets to unimaginable levels.
in Public bookmarks by 2 users - Resilient Communities a SANER future - Sustainable, Asymmetric, Networked, Effective, Resilient
We're committed to growing resilient communities. As the global economic and political system begins to devour itself, we need communities that can withstand those system shocks, and provide us the means to live secure, comfortable, and sustainable lives. Our goal is to provide a place where people who are engaged in this work can share their experiences, tools, and presence
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in Public bookmarks - Summer Readings Prof. Michael B. McElroy (last updated, December 2005)
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli ||The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright ||Freakonomics by Steven Levitt ||Stephen Dubner: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ||Paul Blustein: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF + And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of America. ||William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics ||Russell Roberts's The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism + The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
in Public bookmarks - The Art of Measurement The Agonist
I want to talk a bit about management measurement. I’ve spent a number of years now in a good sized multinational, and I’ve watched management trying to gain control through measurement. And mostly I’ve watched as they’ve gained the wrong sort of control; as they’ve crystallized behaviour in ways that lose more from employees than they gain.
in Public bookmarks - The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more
Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the
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in Public bookmarks - The once and future e-book on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica By John Siracusa |
A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books. I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store."
in Public bookmarks - WaPo: Rough Week, But America's Era Goes On By Niall Ferguson Sunday, September 21, 2008; B01
Does Wall Street's meltdown presage the end of the American century? Many commentators have warned that the past week's financial mayhem signaled a major political setback for the United States as well as an economic one. "Why should the rest of the world ever again take seriously the American free-market model after this debacle?" a leading British journalist asked me last Thursday. This crisis, he argued, was to economics what the Iraq war was to U.S. foreign policy: a fatal blow to the credibility of American claims to global primacy.
in Public bookmarks - CNET News.com: 'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. The controversy gathered steam Monday when Linden Lab, which publishes Second Life, posted a blog alerting residents of the virtual world to the existence of a program or bot called CopyBot, which allows someone to copy any object in Second Life. That includes goods such as clothing that people purchase for their in-world avatars, and even the virtual PCs that computer giant Dell announced Tuesday it is going to sell in the digital world.
in Public bookmarks - CouchSurfing
CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
in Public bookmarks by 36 users - In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled "The Peter Principle Game."
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in Public bookmarks by 2 users - Index of Economic Freedom 2007
The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, things like tax rates and property rights. View scores and rankings for any country, along with detailed data and background analysis. [Visit the Countries »] or [See Top 10 »] A Renewed Index The 2007 methodology has been revised to provide an even clearer picture of economic freedom by using data-driven equations rather than performance brackets which allows countries to be graded using a percent score rather than a 1–5 rating. In addition, labor freedom has been added as a variable. We continue the tradition of blending "Ten Freedoms" equally to produce a simple, unbiased overall score for each country.
in Public bookmarks - iTulip.com Retrospective 2006 + ka poom theory
"Here's the grade on Ka-Poom 1999 based on what happened since then with a revised Ka-Poom prediction below. On predicting the timing, length and extent of the deflationary or "Ka" part of the cycle, I'll give myself an "A." It started from the middle of 2000 and ended in the middle of 2002, as predicted. Inflation during 2001 averaged 1.6% for the year as shown in the updated 2006 graph below and it hit bottom at -3.3% in October 2001 as shown in the 1999 original above. Here's where reality and the prediction diverged."
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in Public bookmarks - Microsoft developer Dave Stutz parting advice to Microsoft - Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software -
...Exciting new networked applications are being written. Time is not standing still. Microsoft must survive and prosper by learning from the open source software movement and by borrowing from and improving its techniques. Open source software is as large and powerful a wave as the Internet was, and is rapidly accreting into a legitimate alternative to Windows. It can and should be harnessed. To avoid dire consequences, Microsoft should favor an approach that tolerates and embraces the diversity of the open source approach, especially when network-based integration is involved. There are many clever and motivated people out there, who have many different reasons to avoid buying directly into a Microsoft proprietary stack. Microsoft must employ diplomacy to
An essay on the impact of commodity software on Microsoft
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in Public bookmarks - Mischievous Ramblings » It’s Not Just Abusive. It’s Stupid
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in Public bookmarks - Our Epistemological Depression — The American, A Magazine of Ideas | By Jerry Z. Muller Thursday, January 29, 2009
Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today. The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide incentives and an inability to coordinate information about supply and effective demand. The history of capitalism, by contrast, is the history of dialectical failure: it is a history of the creation of new institutions and practices that may be successful, even transformative for a while, but which eventually prove dysfunctional, either because their intrinsic weaknesses become more evident over time or because of a change in external circumstances.
in Public bookmarks - Overheard in the Office
Not All on the Same Day, As Her Suit Alleges
Eavesdropping on strangers since 2003
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