Dave Troy, creator of FlickrVision/Twittervision, has begun spearheading coworking in downtown Baltimore. He and I have spoken at length, and Dave has a lot of local resources moving in the right direction. Most importantly, last weekend at SocialDevCampEast, I attended a session about coworking there and by the end a Jelly session had been scheduled. It took place last week, and was apparently a big success. Raines, you were there, you can report more on that!
Anyway...Dave's already thinking on his own about the metaphors that we hold near and dear, and made this post this morning that's really thoughtful and I wanted to make sure everyone read and had a chance to respond. He compares and contrasts starfish decentralization with the autonomy built into "flocking" alrorithms. Dave's geeky so he goes down that road for a second, but the crux of it is important: "In flocking simulations, there is no central control; each bird behaves autonomously. In other words, *each bird has to decide for itself which flocks to consider as its environment*." http://davetroy.com/?p=110 Clearly, this function WORKS for birds (and other flocking animals), I'm curious if we can use this metaphor to stabilize the coworking story more? I've got some early musings that I'll be jotting down as the crystalize a bit more, but I wanted to get Dave in the conversation here and get others' processing it as well. -Alex, IndyHall -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
