Sitting here watching my daughter deftly tweak her Sims - managing their complex lives, changing parameters, watching outcomes and deciding longer term strategies - it's hard not to be convinced that her generation will make much better managers than.

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Anarchism’s great difficulty has always been reconciling personal and local autonomy with the complexities of daily life and production in an industrialized world on an interdependent planet. And here technology turns out to be anarchism’s...

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Apologies to David Weinberger for mangling his "Small pieces loosely joined" description of the internet but I have been meaning to post for a while about the "people power" aspects of the web. Lots of things have come together to...

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I have loads of precise contact categories in Daylite (my CRM), twelve in Google Reader, five in Facebook and will continue to have no lists in Twitter.

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I have written before that the usefulness of the web is about learning and finding stuff, whether people or information. This becomes clear watching people use social tools inside organsations to ask "Where can I find the right person to help me do..

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