Oooooo...I LOVE that metaphor! On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Alex Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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 > > > > > -- -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Book: The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business ( http://www.amazon.com/Whuffie-Factor-Capital-Winning-Communities/dp/0307409503?ie=UTF8 ) Company: Citizen Agency (http://www.citizenagency.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://www.horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 415-694-1951 fax: 415-727-5335 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
