Ah thats quite a funny video.
If you could clarify what you meant via the scrolls and handles
analogy, I would be appreciative.
Thanks,
Greg Sonnenfeld
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Bruce Sherwood
bruce.sherw...@gmail.com wrote:
Clearly, this is very much a moving target.
After
Nothing profound. Just that here we are talking about possible
improvements in the usability of ebooks, and in the spirit of that
hilarious video I was imagining the early adopters of scrolls griping
about how they were harder to use than clay tablets, and what if we
changed the design of the
I'm trying to figure out if Tom Friedman has been taken in by a
too-weird-to-believe stunt, or its a real example of internet governance
we've all discussed and by now dismissed as impossible: http://goo.gl/bnvFM
It appears to be a cross between a poll and a grass roots 3rd party. I'm
going to
I suspect it's for real. I answered a lot of their questions, many of which
were very unsophisticated. They seem to have no idea that their process,
like any process (especially a public one), can be corrupted by big money.
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
***
Cross-Responding to the Cross-Post
On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if Tom Friedman has been taken in by a
too-weird-to-believe stunt, or its a real example of internet governance
we've all discussed and by now dismissed as impossible:
Can anybody remember the author and title of the book that came out in the
last five years that presented the evidence that decisions made by diverse
groups were of higher quality than those made by uniform ones? I think it
had diversity in the title. I can tell you exactly where it is on my
and his more recent Diversity and
Complexityhttp://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Complexity-Primers-Complex-Systems/dp/0691137676/
.
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
*** Professor, Computer Science*
* California State University, Los Angeles*
* Google voice:
There's a title: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes
Everything that mentions it.
marcos
sfcomplex.org
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Can anybody remember the author and title of the book that came out in the
last five years
