I think Paul Winkeler only blogs when there’s an orange alert:

“From a Hard Place to a Rock Chicago is about to become the home of a Hard Rock hotel. That in and of itself is hardly news. What is interesting however is that this hotel is moving into a building formerly know as the ‘Carbide & Carbon’ building on E Wacker Dr. Talk about a Rock and a Hard Place! “

Either that or since Knowledge is Power, he dispenses power wisely.

Howard Rheingold, author and virtual community pioneer, thinks ahead to 2004:

“I wish an interdisciplinary investigation of human cooperation and collective action would begin to emerge in 2004, bringing together scientists, scholars and practitioners in self-organizing Internet politics, peer-to-peer computation, the sociology of managing common pool resources, the economics of open-source production, the biology of symbiosis, and the evolutionary psychology of cooperation around the nature, dynamics, barriers and multipliers of human cooperation.

“What probably will happen is that my colleagues and I will begin to put together a map of this emerging field and then stalwartly paddle upstream against the institutional tides of specialization — because universities, corporate research, and foundation funders succeed by specializing and risk failure by broadening their interests across disciplinary boundaries, thus building into our civilization’s knowledge-gathering institutions a strong negative incentive against seeing (or looking for) big pictures.“

As Jon Husband points on in his comment here on BFD, he wrote a great piece a while ago:

[W]e don�t yet know how to operate as whole human beings in this business-oriented interconnected interactive world. It takes new skills, new logic, new emotions and different dynamics. Most of us still only know how to interact in prescribed ways with the large institutions, the commercial and political systems that govern our lives. We haven�t yet learned how to create, how to sustain ourselves and help others sustain themselves, even though we are (usually) interconnected and (often) concerned that we are at the mercy of these institutions and commercial and political systems.

Yes, Jon. I think it’s very interesting. BFD readers should click through the title for an amazing digest of recent social networking articles and the current state of affairs.

In Lyz Bly’s Free Times commentary:

Arts advocate George Nemeth is baffled by the proposed levy. “I am disappointed that [the commissioners] didn’t have the language and details worked out in advance of their announcement about the levy.”

It’s not the levy I’m baffled by, it’s the implementation of the strategy. Ooops. I used the S word. Sorry!

From Patti Anklam:

“Cynthia Typaldos has created a database listing various social software applications. I, for one, am very glad to see this, and am not surprised that Cynthia is the one who has done it. Thanks, Cynthia!”

Yeah, this is Steve Goldberg’s beat. But I’m thinking BioScience in general should benefit from this news:

Shares of Trinity Biotech plc rose as much as 51 percent on Monday after it said it received US regulatory approval to market its HIV test in the United States.

I’m thinking about networking this morning, based on a quote from Valdis Krebs in the PD article I’ve linked to in the title:

Valdis Krebs, a management consultant who studies connections between people and organizations, said the sites can reflect real networking like sitcoms reflect real life. People often hoard friends, many of whom have no real business connection.

Which comes on the heels of Sandy Piderit’s recent comments.

My thoughts are that online networking mirrors real world networking even more closely then sitcoms mirror real life. How many times have you gone to [insert your favorite networking event here], met someone, and have it consummate in a deal? I think it’s a rare exception, but the alternative (not networking, and not increasing your chance of a deal) isn’t very attractive either.

What’s your networking experience been like, either online or off?

Thomas, Tisha, and I are talking about the weekly newsletter. Thomas quips and Tisha laughs:

“Drinking coffee may or may not lead to something better.” - Thomas Mulready