• Tinkering to the future

  In Vodafone’s receiver magazine (did I tell you that I’m a happy Vodafone customer they have this piece on how the diy ethos can help build the future …

  Let’s think a bit about the connection to Enterprise 2.0 - ie. user-driven and continuous improvement, mass-involvement of employees in refining usage arenas and approaches, perpetual-beta mode of social software implementation projects, …

  tags: adaptivity, emergence, inspiration, implementation, enterprise2.0

  • In its improvisational, experimental quality, tinkering is a bit like jazz. The comparison with music can be pushed further: both are forms of human expression shaped by both specific historical forces, and deep human needs. The counterculture is one important influence on tinkering; so is computer hacking, with its casual contempt for established authority, deep respect for arcane technical skills, and refined love of imaginative jokes. The open source movement showed that hackers could create extraordinary things by co-operating on a large scale.

• McKinsey: What Matters: Internet

  some light weekend reading from McKinsey - overall I really like this site “What Matters”, tackling the real and big problems.

  Contributions by people like Clay Shirky, Craig Newmark or Yochai Benkler (who writes about peer production)

  tags: innovation, internet, collaboration

  • “Peer production”—large-scale distributed action by many individuals—is transitioning from a curiosity to a general phenomenon.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.