Interesting piece and question Chris - thanks. Good morning from Utah.
What are the simple rules of making visible, of harvesting, that when practiced (edited) by an undefined many (randomness, chaos) produce pattern (harvest that serves - content for specific circumstances AND process for use across circumstances)? Yup, sounds familiar. Simple example for me this week is using flickr to make visible flipcharts from an event. I took pictures, uploaded them to flickr, sent people the link. For them, this was new and added another quality of making visible - energy of color, etc. For me, it is just practice (editing) in an unrequested way (randomness) to produce a result (content and process) that improves what was previously there. I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote about the wisdom of crowds. The simple story he uses is of people guessing the weight of a prize bull at the county fair. Lots of uninformed people basically accumulate to get in right on. Wonder where that weaves in here. Control and wikipedia? There is wisdom available in the group that otherwise isn't. And also, what do we learn about collaboration and resilience when we rethink available time? Tenneson Tenneson Woolf The Art of Hosting [email protected] www.artofhosting.org <http://www.artofhosting.org/> 801 376 2213 Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change [email protected] www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/> 801 422 2665 _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Corrigan Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Interesting article about Wikipedia I cam across this article today: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0702/0702140.pdf It is a statistical analysis of Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.com> , looking at whether one can acheive high levels of quality in a complex and chaotic system. The conclusion is that wikipedia is demonstrating that it is a successful collaborative effort, and that the more hands you have in something, the better the chances of moving towards quality. What this tells me is that a few simple rules to bring visibility to ideas and projects help direct attention in a collaborative way and produce resiliant results. Using complex and chaotic systems are an deffective way of doing that. Sounds familiar, eh? What can we learn about control from wikipedia? Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com Harvest Moon Consultants http://www.harvestmoonassociates.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
