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Ed Morrison · Open networks and innovation
February 28th, 2010
From the Ideas Project
Will Web-based collaboration enable us to improve on the achievements of a competition-based system?
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March 1st, 2010 at 10:28 am
About the only thing from this was we’ve barely scratched the surface.
And it will be a long time before interaction designers and ethnographers are introduced into the equation to move out of the shallow end of kiddie pools like FarmVille.
Right now, anything from outside a one dimensional “collaboration” is noise, and filtered out.
There is little technical facility to recognize a dissenting voice as a valued diversity making the whole project better. So you get projects which represent hothouse orchids at best, the Dodo as more common worst.
As previously discussed elsewhere, there is no “Medici Effect,” simply an echo chamber of groups oozing consensus from every pore.
Here is the key bit “..We have the ability now to connect to millions of people around the word, but who are these people?”
This is an age of access, not of information. Open networks and closed minds.
In the vast majority of cases, these tools are used like a drunk uses a lamppost — for support rather than illumination.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
JS: When your healthy skepticism crosses over to defeatist pessimism, you lose me.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:31 am
If so, it’s drawn from the content of the video, which is far more lacking on what to do than I was.
Sorry, but I live with the solutions your video merely longs for. It is not pessimism to report on the state of the vast majority of use. (If you care to watch users).
But it’s not defeatism. Simple prescriptive action — specifically interaction design.
Defeatism might be more aptly directed toward the buzzword compliant glee club making a fuss over the mediocre, the mundane, while touting every minor blip as a revolution.
That introducing interaction designers is interpreted as defeatist pessimism, it merely tells me no productive improvement is forthcoming.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:28 pm
I leave you to wallow in your cynicism.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:10 am
From the dialog (sorry, monolog): “…will be important” no “here’s what we did to achieve this result, right now.”
A dialog would be social. Can’t have that. A telling selection, when better videos about what people are doing today are readily available.
No result. Not one technique. Nothing to do but utter “social network” like an incantation from some kind of cargo cultist; not exactly futuristic or progressive; nor hopeful for the future. Interesting choice.