Networks as living systems Andrew Rixon shares this presentation on networks as living systems. I enjoyed it. Living systems mappingView more presentations from AndrewRixon....

Trolls Stumbled on this and wanted to share it. ...

Thinking images This blog made me think: What is the shape of thought?. It kicks off with this provocative quote:"Words and language, whether written or spoken, do not seem to play any part in my thought processes. The psychological entities that serve...

Being different I liked this argument for taking the risk of being different, from Gavin Heaton: there's already a surfeit of sameness in the world. But it is precisely because of this connectedness that you must take the risk with your idea,...

Web Shadows A long time ago, the estimable Antony Mayfield was kind enough to send me a review copy his new book, Me and My Web Shadow. This is a great book to give anyone who wants a primer on all things...

Connections... Viv emailed me this article from Businessweek: The importance of connecting with colleagues. If you can forgive the slightly office politics tone, there's some interesting nuggets here. For instance, there was research looking at the effect of students' locations in...

Clocks and clouds Jonah Lehrer:Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, once divided the world into two categories: clocks and clouds. Clocks are neat, orderly systems that can be solved through reduction; clouds are an epistemic mess, "highly irregular, disorderly, and more or...

Living systems I tweeted this post by Andrew Rixon last month: From Social Networks to Living Systems – Some principles to reflect on. It's brief and well worth reading in full. I also liked this comment by Gibran:A friend of mine says...

Film financing crowdsourced I liked this: Buyacredit.com. Three British teenagers crowdsource the funding of a film of a little know Jules Verne novel. Hat tip: Neil Perkin's recent slideshare....

Get nervous Gavin Heaton has some good ideas about what works and doesn't in social media. This one definitely resonates for me.Nervous – Does your content make you nervous? Do you get a small thrill when you write it? Do you worry...

Forget advertising Rob Paterson has two excellent posts throwing down the gauntlet to conventional thinkers in ad agencies, and beyond. Online advertising is NOT marketing 2.0....

Networked creators John Hagel argues:In the 20th century we witnessed a deep split in our professional and personal identities. The quest for scalable efficiency in all of our institutions required us to conform to highly standardized organizational routines. To do this, we...

Laws of networks Jack/Zen posts his four laws of networks. I particularly liked his first, "Luck = consciousness x transparency". He explainsLuck is one of the most powerful and accessible currencies in networks and, as luck would have it, it happens at the...

New organisations start with a single click I had a great meeting yesterday with Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, founder of the excellent Reboot conference and serial entrepreneur. He and a couple his collaborators showed me their latest stuff and it was a lot of fun. One tiny detail made...

Next gen media Antony Mayfield recommended Dan Calladine's presentation on Next Generation Media at Slideshare. Lots of interesting factoids about how the networked world is shaping up....