Tag Archives: networks

The Real-time Politician – It’s about filters (and being unfiltered)

The other day Mathew Ingram, in response to articles about the president’s one year anniversary asked What Are the Implications of a Real-Time, Connected President? More specifically:
Is a real-time connected president more likely to think for himself and look outside the usual Washington circles for ideas or input, or is being connected just a giant distraction [...]

Making Open Source Communities (and Open Cities) More Efficient

My friend Diederik and I are starting to work more closely with some open source projects about how to help “open” communities (be they software projects or cities) become more efficient.
One of the claims of open source is that many eyes make all bugs shallow. However, this claim is only relevant if there is a [...]

19th Century Net Neutrality (and what it means for the 21st Century)

So what do bits of data and coal locomotive have in common?
It turns out a lot.
In researching an article for a book I’ve discovered an interesting parallel between the two in regard to the issue of Net Neutrality. What is Net Neutrality? It is the idea that when you use the Internet, you do so [...]

Many eyes make all bugs shallow – especially when the eyes get smarter

[Please bear with me for the next 24 hours - I'm moving to a new hosting company, and there may be some glitches here and there to work out. Thanks.]
My friend Diederik has been writing a number of cool posts over at his blog Network-labs.org. For example he has an awesome jetpack plugin that predicts [...]

Millennium Scholarship Foundation: A Case Study in Sustaining a Network

For those who haven’t heard, one of the worst decisions of the current government has been to not renew the Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
The foundation, created by Chretien in 2000 had a 10 years of funding to pursue three goals: 1) improve access to post-secondary education, particularly for students facing economic or social barriers; 2) encourage [...]

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