Comments on: Human Information Nodes and Routing

By: ed hardy

ed hardy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:33:04 +0000

By: diva's

diva's — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:03:27 +0000

diva’s…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:09:22 +0000

Hi folks, first time posting here.

I can’t speak much to technology or methods here, but I like this idea because it might help deal with a different problem that I recently pondered: getting access to trustworthy information in an age where spin, exaggeration, and downright lies seem all too prevalent.

Over time we all build up our networks of trusted information sources. When the media (any media) starts broadcasting a story of some kind, you can tap into your network of contacts to determine whether the information is true, false, or flawed. But what if you are new to the game and don’t have a network or don’t know who is really knowledgeable? A network of trustworthy information nodes would be a wonderful thing to be able to tap into.

Could a wiki be a part of the ultimate solution, or something like it that allows continuous editing, review, approval, and is built to link things together? Just a thought…

Great post!

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:09:00 +0000

Hi folks, first time posting here.

Could a wiki be a part of the ultimate solution, or something like it that allows continuous editing, review, approval, and is built to link things together? Just a thought…

Great post!

By: dave davison

dave davison — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:31:35 +0000

with this post you have absolutely got my attention. Ihave been wrestling with this problem – using grazr and a visual map of the socialnet as my beginning tools – I think there are so many different nodal connections that one needs a Powers of Ten approach to panning and zooming them. You just wrote the spec for the tools set I need to achieve what Vannevar Bush was talking about in 1945 with his Memex, and what Doug Engelbart has been preaching for 40 years with his concepts for a dynamic knowledge repository for collective intelligence. I know we have connected before, but with this post( which incidentally was through a link from Beth Kantor’s Blog) I feel it’s time to reconnect with you and do some serious work together. Can we talk?

By: dave davison

dave davison — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:31:00 +0000

By: Kera C

Kera C — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:52 +0000

I really love how you refer to clusters of people as “nodes”! For some reason, it reminds me of dendrites and synapses, and how our brains make and bolster connections 24/7. In that way, it just seems to make sense to communicate purposefully via information clusters. I’m not sure what that would look like on a large scale, but it is something to keep in mind when trying to glean or supply information. Thanks for the insight!

By: Kera C

Kera C — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:00 +0000

By: Seni Thomas

Seni Thomas — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:44:21 +0000

Chris,

Great topic. Innovation networks are something I have been thinking on for quite sometime, and the biggest barrier is finding the right people to ask questions too:

My solution is something along the lines of: GoogleApps + Spock + Facebook/Orkut

Essentially: Collaboration Tools + People Search + Social Network.

More fleshed out thoughts here:
http://senithomas.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/the-holy-grail-of-social-media-google-incubator/

Cheers,

Seni