Largest peaceful social experiment
The New York Times covers the signing ceremony of the European Constitution. 450 million people joined voluntarily to create the largest peaceful social experiment.
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Memetics experiments around the elections
The enblogment by Lessig of Kerry is becoming a full blown applied memetics experiment, in both establishing the power of weblogs in spreading a neologism, and in establishing their influence. Winer’s page tracking the enblogments of the various candidates, and the Google tracker he posted will measure the spreading in the blogosphere, and on the
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A disenfranchised view of past feelings
I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his hope of progressive reform. What a difference now! Anybody seeing today that the US unilateral policies and interventionist stances are a danger to the world, feel that while only US citizens are going to vote
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Universal identity service with Identity Commons
You can contact me now, and apparently for the next 50 years (based on the assumption that the service, the world, and I will all be there), at the universal handle =David.Orban, which is my i-name. (A recently introduced global system by Identity Commons, and the 2idi, an i-broker, based on open data sharing standards
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Lexical analysis of debates lets the memes shine through
The Osservatorio of Pavia publishes the report of a lexical analysis of the US Presidential debates (pdf), that represents the words used on a very clear graph of Simple-Complex and Rational-Emotional axes. The frequency of the words used, and their grouping into clusters of meaning let the authors of the report show the main themes
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Soon a Creative Commons based broadcast content in the Netherlands?
Coverage by Alex Steffen at WorldChanging of an article by Figueiredo in DMeurope.com of a conference involving Creative Commons, and future proposals by Dutch parlamentarians for the release under CC licenses of all publicly financed broadcast content in The Netherlands. Public creativity leveraging content produced with publicly financed projects is appropriate, and overdue. Will joint
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Italy’s more than half corrupt?
Ok. That sounds pretty provocative. But how should one interpret the results of the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International? Italy, where I live, is at the 42nd place with a score of 4.8 on a scale of 10. It is humbling to see the world’s sixth biggest economy achieve its position with
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Charming side of Italian anarchy as seen from the outside
We were in my car with Joi Ito tonight driving to have a few drinks after his panel at IBTS (yes, that was the name of the conference even if he didn’t seem to know :-), and he remarked how amusing it was to find Italy as he expected: creative, flexible, and pretty anarchic in
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Trust relationships need breathing space
Ebay is a great closed garden. So great a lot of people don’t have a feeling of enclosure. However, trust relationships need breathing space (as John Battelle writes on Ebay before drifting to sleep), and other companies, for example Google, good be well positioned achieving this with implementations of the Semantic Web, as analyses by
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Unbounded memetic landscape
John Battelle is asking for comments on his vision of a world with Perfect Search. Well, the world of the Perfect Search would not be interesting. Asimov was great in exploring in his “I Robot” short stories the shortcomings and unintended consequences of his own laws. I can much more easily imagine someone building a
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